Rents are spiking for apartments in East Perth because of strong economic growth, low unemployment, corporate relocations and supply shortages, new research from Knight Frank says.
Woolworths' new chief executive Grant O'Brien is planning an aggressive push to open 39 new supermarkets while reviewing the company's troubled Big W and Dick Smith stores.
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti has rejected claims the airline's pilots, engineers and ground crew are paid substantially less than those at Qantas Airways.
The state government has put out the call for a $200 million contract to design and construct the inlet and surrounding public space for the Perth Waterfront redevelopment.
The state’s peak retail body says Western Australian retailers are expecting bumper Christmas sales results following the Reserve Bank’s decision to cut interest rates yesterday.
A fall in residential building approvals in September confirms yesterday’s interest rate cut by the Reserve Bank of Australia was the right call, the Housing Industry Association says.
Senior government ministers have rejected union calls for changes to the Fair Work Act following the forced termination of industrial action at Qantas.
Kim Gamble has put his heart and soul into Kim’s Food Bar, his latest venture in Cottesloe, which pays his biggest homage yet to slow food. Emily Morgan reports.
IN a bid to raise funds for women’s advocacy and support organisation Esther Foundation, four Perth CBD coffee shops have signed up to the Coffee that Cares fundraising week.
MUSIC education group Musica Viva has launched two new programs for its 2012 offering it says will extend access to quality services in classrooms across Australia.
HE may never have danced professionally, but Jeremy Phillips is passionate enough about contemporary dance to have started a dance company with a funding model he hopes will bring a full season of
I READ Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive by Harvey Mackay in 1992. It was a life-changing, and career-changing, book for me, and millions of other readers (hopefully you).
COLD water has been poured on the prospect for a quick recovery in the housing sector, after the latest data showed prices were still falling and new home sales declined for a sixth consecutive mon
FAST-GROWING towns in the Pilbara have continued to deliver new opportunities for local construction companies, with Pindan and Gavin Construction among the latest winners.
RECENT data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics on Australia’s new babies show that, during 2010, at 297,900, more babies were born than in any year previously.
WHEN billionaire retailer Gerry Harvey launched a bid to get GST imposed on online purchases less than $1,000, he unwittingly provided a major publicity boost for internet shopping in Australia.&nb
WESTERN Australia’s super-charged resources sector has provided little protection for retailers battling to overcome sagging consumer sentiment and a shift from spending to saving.
Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan says the mining tax will allow the community to share in the resources boom, as the mining industry continues its campaign against the proposed impost.
