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A couple of fresh faces have added a new dimension to the Mosman Park scene. Amy French reports.

Having turned her own life around, Jade Lewis is determined to help others.

WA faces long-term energy cost increases as world oil prices continue to rise.

While they’re widely considered to be unproductive and too long, meetings still take up much of a manager’s day.

The issues surrounding the oil and gas industry in WA almost rival the scale and complexity of the sector itself.

Higher-than-expected construction costs are hurting the government’s great infrastructure project – the NBN.

Julia Gillard may have neutralised the GST as an issue during her recent visit west, but there’s still plenty of manoeuvring ahead on that front.

Christian Porter might be planning to prime the pump in his May budget.

Asia Iron has become the latest Mid West iron ore player to take a major step forward, with the appointment of WorleyParsons as its project management contractor for the first stage of the Extension Hill magnetite project.

Too many shops! That is the awful reality for traditional retailers, and investors in retail-focused funds, because there is no hope of a sudden revival of shopping as we have known it.

Western Australia's newest wind farm has opened on a sheep property near Mt Barker, after gaining 50:50 government funding.

Perth-based engineering services group LogiCamms has won contracts collectively worth $4.5 million from multi-national equipment and engineering group Sandvik.

Edith Cowan University Professor Craig Valli has received the top accolade at the Western Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards.

West Australian Newspapers shareholders have voted to approve the proposed $4.1 billion takeover of Seven Media Group, to form Australia's biggest media outlet.

The country's biggest grain exporter, CBH Group, has awarded a United States-based corporation an $80 million contract to build a new locomotive fleet.

UPDATE: Woodside Petroluem chief executive Don Voelte has echoed BHP Billiton in hosing down speculation that the multinational mining giant was about to embark on a takeover bid for the oil and gas producer.

Equinox Minerals says Minmetals Resources $C7.00 per share takeover offer is "clearly opportunistic" and a "lowball price".

Perth-based WHL Energy says its heavily oversubscribed $10 million share placement will provide the funds to progress its Seychelles oil and gas project towards farm-out and drilling.

Transport and logistics firm Linfox says it will develop a $68 million "supersite" on eight hectares of industrial land in Hazelmere.

Base metals miner Azure Minerals' stocks have spiked after it announced the signing a $13 million farm-in and joint venture agreement with a state-owned Japanese corporation for its El Tocolote copper project in Mexico.

A review into the distribution of state grants is encouraging but it could end up like reviews of the mining tax and carbon tax.

Carmaker Hyundai is turning an accepted form of process management on its head in a major attack on costs and quality control.

A bizarre case of theft underscores the need for the state to outsource unnecessary work.

There are plenty of political points available when talks about a new GST carve-up get under way.

WESTERN Australian-based Heliwest has struck a deal with local oil and gas company Roc Oil (WA) to provide service and maintenance crew transfers for its Cliff Head project off the coast of Dongara.

Residential developments in Western Australia have taken out three of nine categories at the Urban Development Institute of Australia’s national awards, while WA real estate agents have scooped four national awards for excellence.

FOUR years after their first conversations about how to revolutionise the bulk scanning and indexing industry, i2 Software directors Quentin Gribble and Andrew Wade can finally say they’re in it for more than just the love of the business.

Many not-for-profit organisations are rethinking their business model as the lines between the public, private and charitable sectors become more opaque.

THE two commercial arms of the Churches of Christ, led by Neale Fong and Barry Honey, have split over the future of Claremont’s Bethesda Hospital.

The Bethanie Group Inc and Community First International provide powerful case studies on how smart not-for-profit groups can meet both commercial and social goals.

FREMANTLE needs to take action to make the city a more attractive prospect for private and government investment, a report by the Property Council of Australia and consulting firm Urbis has found.

The appetite for apartments in Perth’s CBD will be tested when Frasers Property Australia launches its $450 million Queens Riverside development on Adelaide Terrace in East Perth.