The major banks are focused on improving productivity and cutting costs, as revenues stagnate due to slow credit growth and financial market uncertainty, analysts say.
Lands Minister Brendon Grylls has launched a nation-wide expressions of interest program, seeking a development partner to deliver a bulky goods complex in Karratha.
Acting Prime Minister Wayne Swan has made plain to the National Australia Bank boss Cameron Clyde his displeasure at the bank's failure to pass on an official interest rate cut in full.
A decision by supermarket giant Coles to cut the price of milk to $1 a litre has been a win for consumers that had not badly affected Australia's dairy industry, a Senate inquiry has concluded.
The state government has announced a $15.5 million plan to provide power for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) radio astronomy project in the Mid-West.
Parliament has begun debating legislation for the minerals resource rent tax, amid calls from Andrew Forrest for the federal government to reveal the scale of deductions given to the big miners, an
ASX and Toronto-listed gold miner Perseus Mining has raised $C81.2 ($77.7 million) from its share offering launched last month, more than $10 million short of its $C93.4 million ($90 million) maxim
Westpac boss Gail Kelly believes the Reserve Bank will need to cut interest rates again in coming months as turmoil and uncertainty in Europe continues to undermine local confidence.
Car maker Holden says it has not made a final decision about the future of the Commodore, despite union claims that the next model could be the last created in Australia.
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.
