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Treasurer Wayne Swan has again defended the proposed resources super profit tax, saying today it was what the mining industry had asked for.

West Perth-based Aphrodite Gold has today opened its $10 million initial public offer to progress exploration and development at its namesake deposit which it recently bought from Apex Minerals.

West Perth-based Adelphi Energy has urged its shareholders to take no action regarding an on-market takeover offer launched today by its major shareholder, oil and gas company AWE.

Elders has reported a $165 million first half loss, with improvement on its previous first half, and forecast continuing improvement in earnings in the second half if suitable rainfall levels are achieved in Western Australia.

Cedar Woods Properties has bought the former Bushmead Rifle Range site located at Hazelmere from the Department of Defence for $18 million.

Up to half of the 500-strong workforce at collapsed Griffin Coal is reportedly at risk of losing their jobs next month as customer Worsley Alumina talks to Wesfarmers' Premier Coal about switching its coal supply.

The founding managing director and chief executive of NRW Holdings, Jeffrey McGlinn, has resigned from the mining services company to pursue other private business interests.

UPDATE: Japan's Inpex has pushed back its planned first gas date from its $20 billion Ichthys project by one year to 2016.

A Singaporean development company is proposing to build three 12-storey apartment buildings on the White Sands Tavern site in Scarborough.

The state government has today committed $12 million from this year's budget to provide low-interest loans to community sector ogranisations and a social innovation grants program.

Gindalbie Metals plans to tap the market for up to $206 million to fund its Karara iron ore joint venture, days after it announced a capital cost increase at the Mid West project.

The next generation of iron ore barons has plenty to fight for following the federal government’s planned 40 per cent ‘super profits’ tax on miners.

It seems some profits are more ‘super’ than others.

WA’s up-and-coming iron ore miners are not the two-bit juniors of times past, but serious players planning billions of dollars of real investment.

The proposed resources tax has an echo of past policy failures.

Developers are ditching troublesome tourism projects in favour of residential developments. Russell Quinn reports.

TWO significant feature film projects progressing towards production in Western Australia highlight the growing international prominence of the state’s film and television industry.

PEARL farmer and retailer Willie Creek Pearls has enhanced its land-based touring business with the acquisition of an established Broome tour operator.

WESTERN Australian sailing legend Skip Lissiman hopes increased corporate support for an event he says is the “Melbourne Cup of match race sailing” will help elevate Perth’s international reputation

THANK goodness the cold weather is here. It’s the perfect time for Western Australian wine lovers to cuddle up with a tasty tipple and help stave off the winter cold.

THE City of Perth is poised to inject new life into the Hay and Murray street malls by launching a strategy to re-utilise forgotten upper level space.

LAUNCHING an emergency breakdown service for houses instead of cars may seem to many to be a novel application of ‘roadside’ assist.

A HOST of ambitious plans to improve the city’s central business district is set to be unveiled for public discussion by the City of Perth.

PAYROLL giving is emerging as a significant contributor to the not-for-profit sector with a growing number of Western Australian businesses implementing the donating mechanism, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

If life is a cabaret, then Clyde and Lesley Bevan have got their act together. Emily Morgan reports.

THE business of lobbying government is a tough one and none more so when representing a sector unloved by the politicians in power.

Property investors need to realise that widely quoted industry analysts employ very different techniques for measuring property values.

The Rudd government has drifted to such an extent it is unclear what, if anything, it really stands for.

PERTH broker State One’s online trading service, Amscot Discount Stockbroking, has taken out the top ranking for services aimed at high volume share traders in an annual review of the online share trading sector.

It took more than luck to get the ‘resource rich’ states where they are.

Osborne Park-based explorer Viking Ashanti has made an underwater debut on the local stock exchange with its share price closing 8 per cent below the issue price.

The Housing Industry Forecasting Group has tipped housing starts will increase by 20 per cent over the next year, followed by a 5 per cent fall in 2011.