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The state’s leading business group says confidence in the local economy remains on edge, and any significant shift in sentiment could have a negative impact on growth, despite new research suggesti

Climate Change Minister Greg Combet vows Labor will remain committed to its carbon pricing regime beyond the next federal election, despite any political damage.

The Australian sharemarket closed more than one per cent lower as weak GDP figures prompted investors to dump banking stocks.

Global Construction Services has won a new contract to provide all of the onshore and offshore scaffolding works for Woodside Petroleum’s North West Shelf project.

Shares in Ramelius Resources have jumped after the company said it produced a record amount of gold in May.

IT services firm ASG Group has announced $25 million in new contracts, while flagging it is in the process of finalising $60 million worth of additional deals.

Diversified explorer FairStar Resources has secured $260 million in project finance, which will cover 80 per cent of the development cost of its Steeple Hill iron project in the eastern Goldfields.

Australia's economic growth was sluggish in the March quarter, and that pace is likely to continue as the peak in mining investment looms.

Grange Resources says it is still committed to its Southdown iron ore project near Albany, despite announcing yesterday it would close its Perth office and move its administrative operations to Tas

Australia's foreign investment rules are sending the wrong message to China, Premier Colin Barnett says.

Perth-based information technology company Datacom has swooped on the failure of its peer XciteLogic to expand into new territory.

Mining services company Macmahon has had a multi-million dollar mine shaft project unexpectedly shut down by a client.

The Australian share market has opened more than half a per cent lower.

The mining industry has gone from heroes to zeroes for shareholders that don't trust it anymore.

The Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review has highlighted the limitations of centralised wage fixing.

The Australian dollar is almost half a US cent lower after global investors reacted to yesterday's interest rate decision.

Sellers have taken over US stock markets as an expanded trade deficit offered a fresh sign of weakness in US growth.

Founding director and chairman of Aquila Resources Charles Bass has sold off almost $6.2 million worth of shares, as part of moves that reduced his beneficial interest in the company to 10.7 per ce

A new report has cautioned against using Australia's vast pool of superannuation to fund infrastructure or for other non-retirement purposes.

Australian stocks rebounded to post modest gains after closing at four-month lows on Monday.

The Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) has recommended approval for a new mineral sands mine in the Mid West.

The Australian economy benefited from a larger-than-expected rise in exports during the first three months of 2013.

Cricket Australia says its deals with the Nine and Ten networks for the domestic broadcast of cricket are worth $590 million.

A survey of 500 small to medium business owners in Australia has found nearly one in five respondents lost more than 10 per cent of annual profit to theft.

CHINA slashed its demand for iron ore exactly a year ago, triggering a collapse in the share prices of Australian mining companies.

WESTERN Australian stockbrokers CPS Securities and Indian Ocean Capital have agreed to merge to create the ninth biggest stockbroking operation in the state.

Billabong will look to offload assets and cut costs to deal with debt after yet another takeover bid for the troubled retailer collapsed.

There was no interest rate cut today but the Reserve Bank of Australia has pointedly left its options open.

Security screening staff at Perth Airport's Qantas terminal have gone on strike for 48 hours after their employer locked out staff and refused a union wage demand.

Australian stocks have opened flat, with market players sitting on the sidelines ahead of an interest rate decision from the central bank.