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Belmont is undergoing a pickup in commercial and residential building activity along Great Eastern Highway, with new developments proceeding in tandem with the widening of the highway

Property developers are unhappy with how the National Broadband Network is being rolled out in Western Australia, complaining they are not receiving enough guidance and support from NBN Co.

Aluminium giant Alcoa will have five more years to expand its Wagerup refinery, the state government announced today.

The rollout of the NBN has begun in WA, but how it ends up will be determined by politics.

Australia remains vulnerable to macroeconomic headwinds and too reliant on the central bank to stimulate the economy, says former Liberal leader John Hewson.

A Leighton Holdings subsidiary has been named preferred contractor for the Fortescue Metals Group-owned Solomon iron ore project in WA's Pilbara region.

Australian shares opened lower after falls on Wall Street and the absence of an expected company tax reduction in the federal budget.

Opposition Treasury spokesperson Joe Hockey says the business community is confused by mixed signals in the federal budget.

Treasurer Wayne Swan says small business has been looked after in the federal budget despite the surprise decision to axe the promised cut to the company tax rate.

The latest federal budget could not have been worse for Western Australia, with the state losing more than $1 billion in government funding compared with 2011/12, the state government says.

Turmoil in the eurozone and a clutch of disappointing earnings reports have sent US markets tumbling.

The federal government intends to spread the benefits of the mining boom, but from what continues to be a shrinking pot.

Australian companies have been abandoned by the federal government, the Tax Institute says.

The federal government has reportedly scrapped a promise to cut the company tax rate.

Emu Nickel has abandoned plans to purchase the Hillgrove antimony-gold project from Straits Resources for $40 million, after it failed to raise sufficient funds to cover the purchase.

The Australian dollar has moved slightly higher, recovering some of the gains lost in Monday's sell-off, despite renewed concerns about Europe's debt crisis.

CO2 Group has gained $3.8 million in federal government grants to fund carbon sink projects in Western Australia and New South Wales.

The federal government says it was always confident its carbon tax would withstand any legal challenge, after one of its biggest critics backed down.

The Australian share market has closed slightly higher, in the wake of better than expected trading on United States and European markets.

Mix94.5 has come up trumps for the 100th consecutive Perth Radio Survey, despite a significant fall in listeners, ratings agency Nielsen says.

Rising demand from the resources sector for office space in Perth's CBD has been identified as the key driver of the highest rental growth across Australia since December 2008, CBRE says.

Leighton Holdings insists that its portfolio of projects is performing well despite its two big ticket developments costing the construction giant $254 million in pre-tax earnings.

The Senate has remembered Judith Adams for her bravery and stoicism during a long battle with cancer.

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia is cutting interest rates on its one- and three-year fixed home loans by up to 0.34 percentage point.

Mineral sands miner Iluka says it will cut its annual production of zircon in 2012 because the global economic outlook remains unclear.

Monadelphous Engineering subsidiary KT Pipelines has appointed civil construction and services firm Central Systems for construction works at Chevron's Gorgon liquefied natural gas project on Barro

Forget the budget. Watch the dollar.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has described his fifth federal budget, to be delivered this evening with a forecast $1.5 billion surplus, as one for the "battlers".

Panoramic Resources has waived the last remaining condition on its $40 million takeover bid for Magma Metals, after increasing its stake in the target to just over 44 per cent.

Indian conglomerate Jindal Steel and Power has taken a significant stake in Apollo Minerals, part of a $3.6 million capital raising for the Perth-based iron ore explorer.

BHP Billiton has continued making big changes in key executive positions, appointing Ian Maxwell as president energy coal, following the move of Jimmy Wilson from energy coal to take up Ian Ashby's