Western Australia has led the national job decline in November with the unemployment rate jumping up to 3 per cent seasonally adjusted, while economists are tipping the national jobless rate to rise to 5.5 per cent within a year.
Air New Zealand has taken a major stake in Perth-based leisure technology firm V Cubed, with the two companies to establish a joint venture to launch V3's tourism booking exchange in New Zealand.
Burrup Fertiliser chief Pankaj Oswal has emerged as a substantial holder in West Perth-based Phosphate Australia, spending over $2 million for a near 6 per cent slice.
Rio Tinto's shares surged over 10 per cent at the start of trade in response to its plans to slash 14,000 jobs, cut spending and costs and sell assets due to the global economic crisis.
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THE company behind the redevelopment of the old Swanbourne Hospital site says it will review its position following the State Administrative Tribunal's decision to back the City of Nedlands' rejection of the proposal.
ABOUT 236,000 square metres of extra retail space is due to come online in Perth over the next four years, according to a retail report by the Property Council of Australia (WA), with just less than half the extra space coming from new centres.
THE collection tins will come out during the lead-up to Christmas with almost every charity, benevolent institution and not-for-profit organisation asking the haves to donate to the have-nots.
YOU don't have to be a Rhodes scholar to understand that, over the past 12 months, global financial markets have experienced some of the most severe and destabilising events ever seen.
RON Manners remembers getting his first glimpse of what free-market thinking was all about as a youngster in Kalgoorlie, unpacking parts and machinery that arrived from the US.
THE decision by three non-executive directors - chairman Peter Mansell, Jenny Seabrook and Mel Ward - to quit the board of Western Australia's biggest publisher should not be a surprise.
CHILD health researcher Fiona Stanley is a big fan of the concept of what she calls a "philanthropic hub" in Western Australia that would help donors refine their decision-making process and direct them to the worthiest causes that best fit thei
AT a time when most directors are shoring up their interest in their own companies, Western Areas chairman Terrence Streeter has sold nearly $2 million worth of shares for the December month so far.
WHEN Andrew Forrest does things he doesn't do them by halves.Having stormed the world of iron ore, shaking up the BHP Billiton-Rio Tinto Pilbara duopoly and briefly becoming Australia's richest man, he focused his sights on one of Australia's most intract
NAME any prominent not-for-profit organisation and it's likely some of the state's top law firms have offered them dozens of hours of service for free.
BUSINESS confidence in Western Australia has hit record lows as the global economic uncertainty starts to impact owners, two separate surveys have found.
THE tourism industry was underwhelmed last month when Geoff Carmody described his report on the impact of the global financial crisis on the sector as one of the most downbeat since his first analysis in 1984.
HE doesn't care for hospitality awards.If you've overstayed your welcome, he's not afraid to usher you out the restaurant's door. He unabashedly admits he's in it for the money, although he does love the industry and concedes the margins are small.
Eddie Smith boosted his interest in Impress Energy for a scant 3 cents, buying 200,000 shares at a cost of $6,000, to bring his total securities to $67,046,937.
MALCOLM and Pauline Tew joke that they have the perfect combination of brains and brawn, combining 50 years of experience in international tourism and hospitality between them.
WHILE there are plenty of people sighing with relief that the BHP Billiton takeover of Rio Tinto fell in a heap, the Note was amused to hear one unexpected reason.
THE recent encroachment of Chinese producers into the state's resource sector has brought into question the value of shareholder returns, with cost plus off-take deals playing into Chinese hands.
THE Christie's broker who sold an 1863 double magnum of Chateau Lafitte to Howard Park founder Jeff Burch and his friend was horrified to find out they drank it.
DURING the past two months there has been an unprecedented wave of bad economic news and plunging business confidence; but just how bad is Western Australia's economic outlook? Many people ask rhetorically why there is so much gloom in the local business
