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The government is hoping to advance its legislative agenda during this week’s sitting of parliament.

State governments are well within their rights to raise mining royalty rates.

Growing worldwide demand for Australia’s coal makes selling the carbon tax a tricky exercise.

A new survey poses questions for the business sector about corporate sustainability and balancing the competing goals of different stakeholders.

Investors need to adapt to a more uncertain financial and political world order.

The NSW Liberal government is leading the way on authentic electoral reform.

Jacki Harry and her father, Noel Ogden, are targeting the residential and business communities with the offering at their riverside cafe. Carolyn Herbert reports.

WESFARMERS has signed on as a principal partner of the West Australian Symphony Orchestra for 2012 in a five-year role that will significantly increase its level of support.

TWO of WA Business News’ 2011 40under40 award winners have teamed up to extend fundraising organisation Dine for Life’s Spring Dinner into regional Western Australia.

BHP Billiton has stepped up its sustainable development strategy by partnering with east coast-based Australian Indigenous Education Foundation to provide educational scholarships to indigenous hig

CONSULTING engineer Stephen Inouye’s career took a change of direction in 2006 when he took the opportunity to start Veritas Engineering on the back of new maritime security laws. 

RODERICK and Kathleen McKay’s successful Supreme Court bid to increase the compensation payment for the mandatory acquisition of their Ravenswood farm by Main Roads and the WA Planning Commission h

THE ‘staff wanted’ signs may not yet be in every shop window as they were at the peak of the mining boom in 2007-08, but the wages that drew employees to the mines and forced other businesses to fo

Business is being swamped by rising costs that are hampering industry’s ability to respond to the boom.

Western Australia is facing a significant skills shortage in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector, driven by an “image problem” for the industry and the increased use of ICT b

THE state government’s skills training initiative is having a positive impact on the number of people undertaking skills training in Western Australia, according to Training and Workforce Developme

The scars of the skills shortages experienced in WA in 2007 are still visible, so is round two really around the corner?

WEST Perth renewable energy business New Energy Corporation plans to build a $180 million waste-to-energy plant in Port Hedland to service the region’s growing population and the major resource pro

Investors in one of Perth's top stockmarket floats of 2010 are set to reap a spectacular return after Thai coal miner Banpu Public Company today announced a friendly $477 million takeover offer for

Eight of Perth’s best Italian restaurants have been separated into a league of their own with the Italian government recently awarding them its authenticity and quality stamp of approval.

Two Australian companies, banking group Westpac and property company Stockland, along with international coal miner Xstrata, have been ranked as the world's most sustainable companies in their

Building and construction company Northerly Group has been appointed to develop a $12.3 million housing project for the City of Perth, in Goderich Street East Perth.

Things are pretty tough for Julia Gillard – she’s copping it from both sides of politics at the moment.

Federal government intervention in major energy projects is perplexing to say the least.

Build quality is likely to become an issue in the ‘foreign versus local’ debate.

Employer groups are mounting an increasingly compelling case for industrial relations reform.

The rapid growth of industry in the Pilbara presents challenges for the provision of energy infrastructure.

Misguided policy has been at the core of Labor’s poll problems.

Daniel Sharp has brought the culinary skills learned in some top restaurants to his business venture in Albany. Emily Morgan reports.

ATLAS Iron chief executive David Flanagan has called for greater mutual support between the arts and business communities, and for arts bodies to adopt a business-like approach.

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MORE than two decades ago, Vector Lifting managing director Les Capelli had a goal to create purpose-built cranes and lifting systems for some of the world’s largest rail, mining and oil and gas pr