LOCAL engineering firms are already planning to cut the number of expatriates employed at their overseas operations due to new tax laws that will significantly increase the annual tax bill of Australians working overseas.
THE Minerals Council of Australia and the Australian Petroleum Production & Exploration Association have seized on a review of key federal government environmental legislation to step up their campaign for reforms to the approvals process.
LISTED Perth-based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings is finalising the purchase of Aspire Finance's $240 million mortgage book in its second transaction of the calendar year.
EFFORTS to improve Western Australia's record as a home of philanthropists have taken a big step forward with a group seeking to change the state's giving culture winning a $36,700 Lotterywest grant.
AS legal fights go, the long-running battle between the University of WA, former staff member Dr Bruce Gray, and the company he founded, Sirtex Medical, is bigger and nastier than most, but one piece of good news has unfolded.
ALL deals during the fiscal year were done, or proposed, at a time of financial crisis, attracting a certain level of admiration from the investment community for the successful combatants.
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The RAC has purchased the state's only specialised driver training facility, the Driver Training and Education Centre (DTEC), located near the Perth International Airport.
Significant red tape surrounding regulation of the Western Australian building industry has been removed, with the creation of a Building Commission division of the Department of Commerce.
The Rudd government has sneaked in an eleventh hour change to its unfair dismissal code which will force small busineses to pay 'go-away' money to aggrieved employees, the federal opposition claims.
South Korean steel maker POSCO has invested nearly $8 million in Jupiter Mines and entered into an offtake deal for up to 50 per cent of the West Perth-based company's future iron ore production.
Long-serving creative director at Linc Integrated, Steve Brown is considering establishing a rival agency in Western Australia following news that he, along with three other staff members, have been retrenched from the West Perth-based advertising outfit.
Panoramic Resources has followed through with plans to expand out of nickel by signing a joint venture deal with Thundelarra Exploration, the second agreement in as many days.
Agribusiness companies TFS Corporation and Elders have reported a fall in managed investment scheme sales for the 2008-09 financial year but said they were pleased with the result in light of difficult industry conditions.
New workplace laws come into effect today, a move the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA says will add to the cost of doing business and discourage job creation.
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Transport Minister Simon O'Brien says securing regular passenger air services for the state is more important than wholesale deregulation as negotiations continue with existing regional airlines over new long-term contracts.
Work on the near $1 billion Southern Seawater desalination plant near Binningup will start in three weeks after the state government today signed contracts with the Spanish-led consortium building the project.
Paladin Energy has approved a $US71 million ($A88 million) expansion to its Langer Heinrich uranium mine in Namibia, which will be smaller than originally targeted.
The Minerals Council of Australia has called for a more efficient and effective project approvals process following the release of an interim report into the Environmental Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act.
Acquisitive Sylvania Resources has agreed to merge with a Finnish company in a deal valued at €268 million ($A466 million) to create an integrated producer of platinum group metals and ferrochrome.
Sydney-based Norfolk Group has secured a $96.5 million contract from BHP Billiton Iron Ore for rail signaling installation work as part of the miner's Rapid Growth Project 5.
Advertising agency 303 has been brought on board by The Perth International Arts Festival (PIAF) for next year after incumbent agency, Block Branding decided to resign the account two weeks ago.
