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Westpac has painted a bleak outlook for the economy after posting a weaker than expected $1.5 billion quarterly profit.

Two consecutive rate cuts by the Reserve Bank of Australia appear to have boosted employer confidence.

Wesfarmers has bucked the job shedding trend with plans to employ more people this year at Coles and its other retail chains, after underwhelming the market with a flat first half profit result.

The Australian stockmarket opened one per cent lower in line with weakness on US markets amid continued uncertainty in Greece.

The high value of the Australian dollar has boosted the spending power of households the past decade, the Reserve Bank of Australia says.

US stocks ended in the red Wednesday amid renewed concerns that Greece was veering toward default after a debt bailout hit fresh turbulence.

Labor Leader Mark McGowan has unveiled a plan to relocate the Department of Local Government, and its 103-strong staff, to Albany if Labor wins the next state election.

Tap Oil founding managing director Paul Underwood has joined oil and gas junior Tango Petroleum in the role of executive chairman.

Argonaut executive director Michael Mulroney has made a comeback to the board of Venturex Resources, this time as managing director.

The Australian dollar rose three-quarters of a US cent following some good news that should alleviate the euro zone financial crisis.

Flinders Mines, owner of the Pilbara iron ore project in Western Australia, has received initial court approval for its $554 million takeover offer from Russia's Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works.

Western Australia is about to learn if it has been recommended as the site for the world's most powerful telescope, known as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA).

Shopping centre giant Westfield is upbeat about the future of retail sales in Australia despite overriding consumer caution and economic uncertainty abroad.

The Australian stock market closed slightly higher today, with financial sector stocks dragging it across the line in a late rally.

Mistakes were made but heads shouldn't roll over a prescribed burn that went wrong and destroyed 40 properties in the Margaret River region, Premier Colin Barnett says.

Bankwest has increased its interim profit to $268 million, up from $239 million the previous half-year.

Western Australia's 2011-12 grain harvest continues to extend its record-breaking run, with a truckload of wheat delivered to CBH Group's Pingrup receival site near Albany late yesterday afternoon

Online movie rental company Quickflix has announced a $2.5 million capital raising to supplement a recent $10 million equity deal with Time Warner subsidiary Home Box Office.

Coal miner Blackgold International has acquired a Chinese barge transport business in a deal worth approximately $23 million.

Means testing the private health insurance rebate will prompt many people to drop their private health cover and put more pressure on the public health system,  Premier Colin Barnett says.

The prime minister would do well to flush Kevin Rudd’s leadership ‘challenge’ into the open.

Why does it take a Texan to talk sense about the opportunities in the Kimberley?

Energy costs to business will cause headaches for the federal government as the carbon tax approaches.

Many people who criticise big business may not realise how much they enjoy the benefits delivered by those very same businesses.

Never one to leave his audience wondering, Mark Latham has some harsh words for Gillard-led Labor.

I am sick of people telling me I work too hard.

KULCHA Multicultural Arts of WA has been awarded more than $300,000 from Lotterywest to develop new projects and organisational capacity building.

THERE is a collective murmur of excitement from the little visitors to Scitech, the state’s science and technology learning hub for children and adolescents.

Why do so many people say they like the people they work with but not their manager?

ESSLEMONT Building and Civil is among seven different Western Australian companies to be awarded state government tenders this month.

FOR some businesses, timing really is everything.

THE challenging residential property market has been stuck at or below the long-term average turnover for the past four years, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.