Western Australia is considered a boom state but the weakness in the residential property market and other industry sectors is a major concern of our business sector.
Iran and the US are fighting a tense ‘war’ where no shots have been fired. But tensions are building in a scenario that resonates with the start of World War II.
The team at revamped In Contro on the South Perth foreshore are hoping to make the best of the ‘rock-star’ location and a piccolo-style menu. Carolyn Herbert reports.
Two Western Australian not-for-profit organisations have formed a partnership to fight infectious lung diseases, with $100,000 already being awarded to WA scientists for projects that address disea
When Erica Ormsby and her sister and fellow foodie Andrea Mason first talked about launching their own fine foods label it was always as the first step in realising their dream of running their own
The multi-million dollar bill for the Barnett government’s commitment to a slew of transformational projects in and around the city has dominated media coverage of these once-in-a-generation ventur
Veteran developer Luke Saraceni is looking beyond his legal and financial battles, lining up new projects for what he sees as the next ‘historic’ property boom.
Investor interest in Perth’s office market is set to intensify in the new year after city sales hit fresh highs in 2011 on a rapidly declining vacancy rate.
It has been a year typified by tumult for the agricultural sector, with cattle farmers taking blows over international trade stoppages and dairy farmers going to war with supermarket giants over pr
A NUMBER of industry sectors lost out this year in the drama of volatile global markets and the high value of the Australian dollar, with tourism, hospitality, retail and residential construction a
It is difficult to know which union could claim to have had the most success during the past year but militant labour groups certainly appear to have found the new federal industrial relations regi
Outsourcing of state services through public-private partnerships may be a politically touchy subject but the Western Australian government has made significant progress in this field this year, ac
Those investors who have suffered through the uranium sector’s miserable 2011 probably don’t have any optimism left, but the ones who can summon up a last skerrick of hope may just find reasons to
If there was one decision that highlighted the weakness of the stock market for most of 2011, it was the deferral of mining contractor Barminco’s initial public offering.
In a year when big deals were few and far between, the $4 billion acquisition by the Kerry Stokes-controlled WA Newspapers Holdings to buy most of his other media assets was something of a standout
International subsea engineering company Wood Group Kenny has won an $8 million front end engineering and design (FEED) contract for the subsea development of Hess Exploration’s Equus offshore deep
Legacy Iron Ore will acquire a 60 per cent share in Hawthorn Resources for $5 million in a deal which will terminate the Mt Bevan iron ore project joint venture between the two companies.
Tax professionals have questioned the logic behind the federal government’s plan to remove the living away from home allowance for temporary residents, a group of employees used heavily by the mini
