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The corporate watchdog has charged former Westpoint directors Norm Carey and Graeme Rundle for breaching the Corporations Act.

THE sale of two significant suburban shopping centres in Perth will test investor enthusiasm for the state government’s new retail property planning policy.

PARAMEDIC Christy Whitby says one of her motivations for starting Compass Health with Tony Metcalf in 2007 was the lack of support she felt during her time working on mine sites.

WA Ballet will move into a new home in Maylands next year, thanks to the company’s statewide support base and the Western Australian building industry putting its back into the project.

A long-time resident of the area, Stephen Hollow knows the market for his Vic Park restaurant, The Silver Spoon. Carolyn Herbert reports.

The coming carbon tax presents the Liberals with an opportunity to engage with inner-city voters.

Changes to the law give shareholders more say on executive pay and tighten the rules on how boards decide.

A mining industry leader in Perth this week highlighted the key issues facing the sector, and by extension WA.

What’s the connection between a light metal, fruit juice and a US-based economist?

Should the military be used to stimulate development in the north-west?

WHEN a group of industry leaders gathered at WA Business News this month to discuss the cost of doing business, they raised plenty of worrying issues, but also found one good news story in a most unlikely place.

Some delicate negotiation is needed in the upcoming round of pay claims if the government is to emerge unscathed.

WESTERN Australia needs more people, and needs a vision to support its long-term growth and economic diversification.

CHARITABLE donations in Australia dropped by $253 million in the 2008-2009 financial year, from $2.35 billion in 2007-08, accor

CUTS to payroll tax and stamp duty sit at the top of the business sector’s tax reform agenda for Western Australia.

PERTH-BASED and regional businesses were among those recognised at three different award ceremonies last week.

NATIONAL property developer Stockland has boosted its Western Australian residential land holdings by almost 40 per cent to close the big gap between it and local leaders, Satterley and Peet.

PINDAN Construction and PACT Constructions have been awarded contracts to build two new high schools in Perth, at a combined cost of $97 million.

ARCHITECTURE firm Silver Thomas Hanley has been appointed to lead the design team for the $234 million redevelopment of St John of God Hospital in Murdoch.

Listed company AnaeCo has resolved to focus on the commercialisation of its waste treatment technology, following the resignation of its founder Tom Rudas.

WESTERN Australia has the worst track record of any state for diverting waste from landfills, new data shows.

The leaders of WA’s two major political parties are noticeably silent on a crucial issue of state energy security.

A START-UP Perth business has unveiled an innovative plan to enter the data centre market, in which heavyweight IT and telecommunications players like Fujitsu and Leighton have recently made multi-million dollar investments.

The Pilbara is vulnerable to a range of security, economic and ecological threats.

Perth architecture firms are still waiting for the post-GFC recovery to lure private sector developers back into the market.

WA has been shaped by 120 years of boom-bust history, and that mindset still prevails, in damaging ways.

What if a building could improve your attention span, help you heal and save taxpayers’ dollars?

It looks like a case of ‘owners sit tight, buyers get ready’ in local property for the next two years.

THE Barnett government’s blueprint to transform Perth into a vibrant, contemporary city could prove to be the saviour of the local architecture sector, but the true potential of these once-in-a-generation projects reaches far beyond their financial impact

Is public transport a victim of its own success or a wasteful rort?

COMMUTERS and shoppers passing through the Perth Cultural Centre in Northbridge have seen big changes over the past year, and they are a pointer to even larger changes afoot.

It will be a major boost for attorney-general Christian Porter if he can get his draft prostitution Bill across the line.