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FOUR story ideas have been selected from the pool of applications from Western Australian indigenous filmmakers for production and broadcast on ABC1.

THE state’s classical musicians are thinking outside the orchestra pit in an effort to take their art form to a new generation of admirers.

HOW do you communicate? How good a communicator are you?

THE word ‘team’ is used in business all the time - team meetings, team planning and, of course, team building. But is it a catch cry or something that truly adds value to the organisation?

The lure of strong rental returns and WA’s busy resources sector has triggered a number of new boutique office projects at the outer edge of the CBD.

The seaside suburb of Cottesloe is attracting boutique fund managers who don’t feel they need to be in the city.

SOUTH Africa’s RMB Resources is not a new player in the Australian market, but it’s the kind of financier that is likely to become more prominent as local companies seek alternative funding solutio

Only a handful of WA companies completed substantial capital raisings in the March quarter. We analyse how they went about it.

A PERTH woman’s expertise in a popular web development platform is attracting interest and business opportunities from across the globe.

TORO Energy has secured long-awaited federal environmental approval for its flagship Wiluna uranium mine, the first of its kind in Western Australia.

The Fig group of cafes has become an iconic part of Perth’s coastal suburbs.

USA-based investment house Vulcan Phosphates has emerged as Minemakers’ major shareholder, after investing more than $2.5 million in the Perth-based explorer.

Navigator Resources’ struggle to raise funds has ended for the worse with administrators called in and about 200 workers being laid off.

It is time for the big retail banks to step up to the plate and cut their lending rates after the central bank left monetary policy unchanged, an industry group says.

The Australian dollar drifted higher during the local session, helped by a weaker US counterpart and the central bank's decision to keep the cash rate on hold.

Northern Minerals has signed up for a $4 million loan which will allow it to begin a major drilling program at its Northern Territory heavy rare earths project next month.

Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has homed in on divisions within federal Labor over possible superannuation changes in the May budget.

Cinema giant Hoyts is on the back foot after social media reports emerged over the weekend claiming the Carousel cinema in Cannington is infested with rodents.

Prairie Downs Metals plans to raise $6 million through a share placement to accelerate exploration and development at its portfolio of projects, including the Lublin coal project in Poland.

The Australian share market closed slightly higher due to strength among financial stocks..

Manas Resources has initiated a $5.1 million capital raising to fund pre-development activities at its Shambesai gold project in the Kyrgyz Republic.

Toro Energy has been granted long-awaited federal government approval for its flagship Wiluna uranium mine, the first of its kind in Western Australia.

The Reserve Bank of Australia has left its official cash rate unchanged at 3 per cent at its April board meeting.

Resource companies either want the federal government's controversial mining tax scrapped, or left as it is, as Treasury tries to work out how it got its revenue forecasts for the impost so wrong.

Labor leader Mark McGowan has been re-elected unopposed as the party's leader following an embarrassing election defeat last month.

The Australian Greens are calling for all coal seam gas projects to be put on hold until their environmental impacts are better known, following revelations about shortfalls in the approval process

Australia’s dollar ought to be falling, a point underlined today by another weak analysis of manufacturing, but any hope of relief for manufacturing, mining or agriculture has been killed by events in Cyprus and the flood of capital pouring out of Europe into safer places, including Australia.

Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan would be the highest-profile casualty as the coalition cruises to victory at the September 14 federal election, according to analysis of recent polling.

Billabong's shares have been placed in a trading halt as talks with two potential suitors drag on.

Australian stocks have opened firmer, with the big supermarket chains and energy companies leading the broader market higher.

The decline in Australia's manufacturing sector has extended into a 14th month as falling selling prices and a strong currency hit hard.