ANDREW Forrest is much more than just one of Australia’s richest people, he’s a showman who adds a little bit of Hollywood to what would normally be the dry and dusty world of iron ore.
THE private wealth of iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart has become a little more public in the past year, during which she emerged as Australia’s richest person.
WHEN Pankaj Oswal emerged with a 5 per cent stake in listed Phosphate Australia in late 2008 – a little more than $2 million for 5.5 million shares at an average of 36 cents each – he was at the to
Softening global commodity demand is this month’s worry. Next month there will be “seven billion reminders” as to why the resource boom will run for decades.
The Australian share market opened higher this morning as a better-than-expected performance on Wall Street drew some investors back into the heavily sold-off local market.
US stocks drifted mostly lower Tuesday amid Greek debt concerns and as investors awaited the end of a Federal Reserve policy meeting hoping for new stimulus for the economy.
Indian infrastructure giant GVK Group will pay Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting $1.26 billion for most of the company’s coal and infrastructure projects in Queensland’s Galilee Basin.
Wall Street celebrated after tech companies and industrials powered US stock markets to five straight days of growth, despite continuing fears over Europe's debt crisis.
Chevron has found another Japanese customer for gas from its $25 billion Wheatstone liquefied natural gas joint venture, signing a sale and purchase agreement with Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power Com
Southern Cross Electrical Engineering has joined fellow Perth-based contractor NRW Holdings in signing a framework agreement with Rio Tinto that makes it a preferred contractor for the iron ore min
Rio Tinto has committed to spend a further $US833 million ($813 million) in the Pilbara, as part of its drive "to substantially increase iron ore production capacity".
Pankaj Oswal and Radhika Oswal and their former business partner, Norwegian chemicals giant Yara International, have both claimed victories in the Supreme Court of Western Australia today, in a bat
Australia’s largest print and design network, Snap Franchising, has announced it will shift its head office out of Perth, after appointing Stephen Edwards to succeed Grant Vernon as chief executive
The state government has announced plans to release new farmland in the Ord River irrigation area, and to call for proposals for the development of additional areas, after the project gained f
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
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
