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THE business of lobbying government is a tough one and none more so when representing a sector unloved by the politicians in power.

Property investors need to realise that widely quoted industry analysts employ very different techniques for measuring property values.

The Rudd government has drifted to such an extent it is unclear what, if anything, it really stands for.

PERTH broker State One's online trading service, Amscot Discount Stockbroking, has taken out the top ranking for services aimed at high volume share traders in an annual review of the online share trading sector.

It took more than luck to get the ‘resource rich' states where they are.

The next generation of iron ore barons has plenty to fight for following the federal government's planned 40 per cent ‘super profits' tax on miners.

It seems some profits are more ‘super' than others.

WA's up-and-coming iron ore miners are not the two-bit juniors of times past, but serious players planning billions of dollars of real investment.

The proposed resources tax has an echo of past policy failures.

Developers are ditching troublesome tourism projects in favour of residential developments. Russell Quinn reports.

TWO significant feature film projects progressing towards production in Western Australia highlight the growing international prominence of the state’s film and television industry.

PEARL farmer and retailer Willie Creek Pearls has enhanced its land-based touring business with the acquisition of an established Broome tour operator.

WESTERN Australian sailing legend Skip Lissiman hopes increased corporate support for an event he says is the “Melbourne Cup of match race sailing” will help elevate Perth's international reputation

THANK goodness the cold weather is here. It's the perfect time for Western Australian wine lovers to cuddle up with a tasty tipple and help stave off the winter cold.

THE City of Perth is poised to inject new life into the Hay and Murray street malls by launching a strategy to re-utilise forgotten upper level space.

LAUNCHING an emergency breakdown service for houses instead of cars may seem to many to be a novel application of ‘roadside' assist.

A HOST of ambitious plans to improve the city's central business district is set to be unveiled for public discussion by the City of Perth.

PAYROLL giving is emerging as a significant contributor to the not-for-profit sector with a growing number of Western Australian businesses implementing the donating mechanism, according to a PricewaterhouseCoopers report.

Osborne Park-based explorer Viking Ashanti has made an underwater debut on the local stock exchange with its share price closing 8 per cent below the issue price.

The Housing Industry Forecasting Group has tipped housing starts will increase by 20 per cent over the next year, followed by a 5 per cent fall in 2011.

CommSec has again claimed top spot in Canstar Cannex's annual online share trading report while State One Stockbroking's online trading platform, Amscot, made its debut.

Subiaco-based explorer TNG has sold its Manbarrum zinc-lead-silver project in the Northern Territory for $US8.5 million ($A9.5 million) cash to China's Teng Fei Mining, and has flagged more potential deals.

Fox Resources has potentially doubled the mine-life for its Radio Hill copper and nickel operation in the Pilbara following an evaluation of the Sholl B2 deposit.

Global Iron and International Petroleum will continue their quest to be reinstated to the Australian Securities Exchange after an appeals tribunal said the stock market regulator should have taken additional information into account.

Canada's Uranium One continues to increase its shareholding in Paladin Energy, lifting its interest by 1.3 per cent over the past day.

Shares in Range Resources surged up to 30 per cent today after an investigation into its jointly owned Texas field estimated a potential cash flow of $US363 million ($A402 million).

Rio Tinto has moved a step closer to developing a second port at Cape Lambert in the Pilbara after receiving a conditional recommendation from the Environmental Protection Authority.

Cape Lambert Resources has lifted its takeover offer for DMC Mining to the same level as the endorsed offer from Meijin Energy Group while the target ups the ante, saying that other parties could make rival offers.

The environmental watchdog has conditionally recommended the development of the $US2.7 billion ($A3 billion) Collie urea operation by private company Perdaman Chemicals and Fertilisers.

Swiss mining giant Xstrata says it has suspended a $30 million copper exploration project in Queensland because of the proposed resources super profits tax.

Treasurer Wayne Swan has launched a salvo at mining executives from his "Treasury bunker" as the war of words over federal Labor's proposed resources rent tax intensifies.

Atlas Iron chief David Flanagan has taken the next step in a growing mining industry campaign against the proposed resources super profit tax, penning an open letter to the prime minister that will be published in newspapers tomorrow.