The state Liberal Party will commit $648 million towards Western Australia's health system if elected and said it will retain the Princess Margaret Hospital as a government run entity.
Mining services company Imdex Ltd has entered into an agreement to fully acquire Queensland drilling services Wildcat Chemicals Australia Pty Ltd for nearly $2 million.
East Perth-based engineering company Lycopodium Ltd believes the buoyant minerals sector outlook will offset challenging conditions in the biodiesel and manufacturing sectors, as it today announced a 40 per cent increase in full-year net profit.
The short-term outlook for state energy retailer Synergy appears robust with Standard & Poor's Ratings Services today assigning an A-1+ corporate credit rating.
Takeover target Ausdrill Ltd has posted a 28 per cent increase in its full year net profit on the back of a six per cent increase in revenue to $391 million.
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Mining services company Mineral Resources Ltd has reported a net profit of $47 million for the 2008 financial year, up 134 per cent from the previous year.
West Perth-based mining company Sphere Investments Ltd is looking for a new partner for its Mauritanian iron ore project, after Qatar Steel walked away from acquiring a 15 per cent interest worth $130 million.
The mining boom has fed into mining services company Brandrill Ltd's full year net profit, which has increased 36 per cent to $11 million in fiscal 2008.
Is it a sign of the times? St George Bank has moved to take control of Warren Mead’s restaurant empire, appointing Shaun Fraser and Simon Read from McGrathNicol as receivers this morning.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has been forced to take a tougher stance on accepting undertakings during mergers following examples of businesses acting in bad faith, ACCC chairman Graeme Samuel said today.
Small-medium enterprise investor Greencap Ltd has acquired two businesses in a scrip and cash deal worth $19 million while it plans to raise over $7 million through a share placement.
Civil construction company Brierty Ltd has posted a full-year net loss of $1.3 million after downgrading its profit twice in its first year of listing on the stock market.
The Carpenter government is working on a rescue package to stop the closure of some of the state's rural rail network, owned by embattled Babcock & Brown, but will not bail out the entire network.
Balcatta-based clean energy technology group Orbital Corporation Ltd has confirmed plans to continue to expand in aligned business sectors after today announcing a $500,000 net annual profit.
Miner Mincor Resources Ltd has reported a 36 per cent fall in net profit for the 2008 financial year to $64 million on the back of lower nickel prices.
Wesfarmers Ltd's share price slumped today after it announced a 33 per cent increase in net profit for the year ending June 2008 of just over $1 billion but a fall in earnings per share.
Engineering company Clough Ltd has turned around its 2007 financial year loss into a net profit of $67 million while its order book stands at $1.2 billion.
Falling commodity prices have hit Perth-based miner Perilya Ltd which will halve ore production at its Broken Hill operation in South Australia and cut 440 jobs.
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Western Australia will need to make significant investments upgrading electricity infrastructure to meet the federal government's mandatory renewable energy target, as the true cost of the scheme begins to emerge.
The reporting season has kicked off with some cheery results from the likes of Bradken, WorleyParsons and United Group, setting a strong pace for the local profit season.
Reforms to the 457 visa scheme may have helped to alleviate the backlog of applications, but workers hoping to relocate permanently are facing longer waiting periods, according to data from the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
The resources boom is helping to feed pay packets across Western Australia, with the state recording the highest increase in wages over the past year as average mining sector salaries pushed past $100,000 for the first time.
Western Australia might be home to the nation's richest man and awash with riches amassed from property and mining booms, but that doesn't necessarily translate into funding for online businesses.
At the height of the tech boom almost a decade ago it would have been laughable to suggest that one of Western Australia's most successful internet entrepreneurs would offer local weather information to fishermen.
At just two and half years out of school, it would be easy to think Paul Slee, as part of an increasingly wired generation, is the right age to be running an online business.
