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Police have brushed past a protest blockade to escort Woodside Petroleum contractors to the site of a proposed gas hub at James Price Point in the Kimberley.

Indonesia has confirmed it will significantly cut the number of cattle it sources from Australia when it re-assesses its import quota for next year.

Voters appear to be abandoning the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, and her rush to introduce a carbon tax. Money is just ignoring her.

The state government has announced the release of 39 lots earmarked for industrial purposes at Hedland Junction, near Port Hedland.

Jackson McDonald and McKenzie Moncrieff have announced they will merge to create a 32-partner law firm with more than 120 professional staff, cementing it as the second largest firm in WA.

The state government has revealed details on $147 million of budget commitments for upgrades to six country hospitals in the south of the state.

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.