TWO separate reports on the state's housing sector have painted another soft year as rate cuts and stimulus packages fail to resurrect the weakening industry.
THE global credit crunch has made a significant dent in Perth's commercial and retail sales for the year to November, with total sales value down 26 per cent on last year.
THE Australian share market finished November on a positive note, buoyed by bargain hunters snapping up shares in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, two days after the $100 billion takeover dissolved.
THE Australian share market finished November on a positive note, buoyed by bargain hunters snapping up shares in BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, two days after the $100 billion takeover dissolved.
THE ASX 200 Index is currently trading with a trailing price to earnings ratio of less than eight times historical earnings, while consensus estimates for the 2009 financial year earnings place the index on a forward multiple of 10.
THE Australian share market closed around 2.5 per cent weaker despite gains in resource giant BHP Billiton and a positive lead overnight from Wall Street.
THE Australian share market closed around 2.5 per cent weaker despite gains in resource giant BHP Billiton and a positive lead overnight from Wall Street.
IT was quite fitting that the chairman of state tourism body Australia's North West, Ian Laurance, was awarded the industry's top individual honour last week, an award named after one of his earliest mentors.
REAL estate agency, Realmark, believes that breaking away from a national franchise and rebranding have helped it weather the downturn in the property market.
CITIC Pacific Mining is on the recruitment drive for 100 workers across a variety of roles in a bid to get its Sino Iron magnetite project at Cape Preston in production by 2010.
KEITH Spence has been awarded the North West Shelf Gas and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia WA Gas Industry Development Award for 2008.
KEITH Spence has been awarded the North West Shelf Gas and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia WA Gas Industry Development Award for 2008.
THE state government has made a series of new appointments as it settles into power but the big question mark for industry is who will head three new important departments announced by Colin Barnett.
T HE ocean may be a major part of what makes the Perth lifestyle so attractive, but there seems to be a shortage of trendy, high capacity, upmarket hospitality venues using this great asset to complement their business.
Wesfarmers Ltd managing director Richard Goyder has boosted his stake in the company by 220,884 shares valued at almost $4 million through an on-market acquisition by the trustee of the plan on behalf
Wesfarmers Ltd managing director Richard Goyder has boosted his stake in the company by 220,884 shares valued at almost $4 million through an on-market acquisition by the trustee of the plan on behalf
WESTERN Australia will be among the first states targeted in the national roll-out of Origin Energy's domestic solar roof-top systems installation program.
COFFEY Geotechnics and Environments was the only Western Australian winner at the Association of Consulting Engineers Australia awards night held in Perth on November 28.
COFFEY Geotechnics and Environments was the only Western Australian winner at the Association of Consulting Engineers Australia awards night held in Perth on November 28.
A GROUP of the state's big gas users have called on government to adopt a fiscal incentive package that will encourage domestic gas supply and reduce the current focus on liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports.
THE controversy over the federal government's proposed industrial relations reforms made me think back to the mid 1980s when people like Charles Copeman led a bruising battle to free up Australian workplaces.
THE state government is seeking public comment on a new rail-based transport connection in Kwinana to alleviate heavy vehicle use of the main roads between Fremantle and Forrestfield.
THE state government is seeking public comment on a new rail-based transport connection in Kwinana to alleviate heavy vehicle use of the main roads between Fremantle and Forrestfield.
