Former prime minister John Howard has defended his government's introduction of the baby bonus, saying the tax system should recognise the costs associated with raising children.
MORE than 100 pieces of indigenous art will return to Western Australia after Curtin University and New York's Colgate University signed a memorandum of agreement to return the works from the US.
LET'S face it, government budgets lost meaning a long time ago – at least as a kind of one-off announcement where everyone held their breath to see how they were affected.
The state's ports could handle a trade of more than one billion tonnes per annum by 2030 if demand for iron ore exports continues on its current trajectory.
The Australia dollar has fallen below 99 US cents, driven lower by growing investor demand for the US dollar and a negative response to Tuesday's federal budget.
UGL and Sedgeman have joined the growing list of engineering and mining services companies forced to slash costs in response to a slowdown in project work.
US home ware retailer Williams-Sonoma is understood to have chosen Perth as the location for its third Australian store amid a growing number of international retail giants coming west.
DESPITE great strides forward towards gender equality in the 1960s, 1970s, and through to the 1990s, women remain under-represented at board level in top Australian companies.
Perth-based gold explorer Red Mountain Mining is seeking to raise up to $2.8 million for drilling operations designed to increase the gold resource of its Batangas gold project in the Philippines.
Australia remains one of the top destinations for migrating professionals, but has slipped in a global rankings survey amid the high-value dollar putting pressure on exchange rates.
WA business leaders say the federal budget has made life more difficult for local industry and fails to recognise the state's importance to the national economy.
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott says his official budget reply won't be a complete list of the coalition's "spends and saves" but will paint a big economic picture.
Every project in Australia worth $500 million or more must show how it will provide opportunities to local businesses, under new laws introduced into parliament.
US stocks have surged to new all-time closing highs on renewed optimism after a prominent hedge fund manager said the stock rally of 2013 still has more room to go.
Mining giant BHP Billiton has said that its exploration and capital expenditure for the 2014 financial year will decline significantly to approximately $18 billion as the company looks to reduce co
