RETAIL giants Wesfarmers and Woolworths continue to employ more people in Western Australia than any other private sector employers, with the introduction of Sunday trading boosting part-time and c
STAFF turnover is costing Western Australian companies billions of dollars and needs to be addressed to combat labour shortages and improve productivity.
THE growing use of iPads by airlines for passengers has created a growth market for Malaga-based company PC Locs, which has just won its largest contract with Qantas.
Iron ore miner Fortescue Metals has sought to reassure shareholders that the economic credentials of its biggest customer, China, remain sound following the country's recent leadership transition.
Engineering contractor Norfolk Group says it will resume looking for a takeover partner at the end of the financial year after it was unable to secure a suitable offer from several interested parti
Economic data over the next few days will not only flesh out expectations for next week's national accounts, but also whether the central bank will cut the cash rate again.
Residential land sales in the Perth and Mandurah area jumped by 14.2 per cent over the September quarter, with the Urban Development Institute of Australia saying falling mortgage rates are having
Engineering group Clough and its joint venture partner Curtain have won $75 million worth works associated with the PNG LNG upstream infrastructure project.
Brickworks defended its four-decade-long cross-shareholding with Washington H Soul Pattison, but insists it has not shut the door on ending the arrangement.
Perth-based explorers Windward Resources and Auroch Resources have dipped their toes into a tough IPO market, raising a combined $5 million through initial public offerings that closed today.
Petroleum giant Shell has rejected Premier Colin Barnett’s criticism of floating LNG projects, saying the revolutionary technology is the likely saviour of the industry in Australia as rising costs
Deputy opposition leader Julie Bishop has accused Julia Gillard of helping to conceal a controversial legal entity set up by two union officials in the 1990s by not creating a file on the advice sh
Living rich is surprisingly difficult, as Perth commuters are discovering, but if WA’s economic success is stretching services today, just wait until the real boom starts and the State looks even m
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has committed a coalition government to creating one million jobs over the next five years and two million jobs within a decade.
Australia could face a recession as within two years unless the dollar and interest rates fall and major labour market reforms are introduced, a leading economist warns.
Uranium miner Energy Resources of Australia expects to post a full-year loss of between $135 million and $155 million in fiscal 2012, as it continues to cut costs amid difficult market conditions.
Continental Coal shares jumped by more than 20 per cent on the ASX today, after it announced first production from its Penumbra coal mine in South Africa.
Shares in newly-listed explorer Dacian Gold have jumped on the ASX, after the company commenced drilling at its Mt Morgans gold project near Laverton ahead of schedule.
