The rapid expansion of Western Australia’s iron ore industry and the emergence of several aspiring producers have prompted the negotiation of an increasing number of joint venture agreements.
Industrial sales agents are tipping Bayswater and Bassandean as the next areas to attract major investment, as land and infrastructure within 15 kilometres of the city becomes increasingly scarce.
Australian investors spent $13.3 billion in overseas property markets last year, $8.9 billion of this in the US, making Australia the largest foreign buyer of US assets, according to a recent research paper.
Speculation over the identity of the corporate player that helped clinched the multi-million dollar deal to bring Matt Giteau to the Western Force has put a little known Bentley-based fuel additive company Firepower in the frame.
The Shovelanna dispute between exploration minnow Cazaly Resources Ltd and mining whale Rio Tinto Ltd will go down in history as a defining moment in Western Australia’s corporate history.
Just before Anzac Day, several senior federal Liberal MPs had fun slinging off at Labor leader, Kim Beazley, because he’d forgotten, during a radio interview, the names of a few South Australian senators.
The pressure on the Australian Labor Party at a state and federal level to allow expanded uranium mining is building as fast as the uranium price is rising and new explorers are pouring into the market.
The abolition of restraints on the expanded production of Australian uranium could clear the way for an enrichment business worth $20 billion a year by 2020.
Perth company Arafura Resources NL is to spin-off its Northern Territory uranium projects into a new, as yet unnamed, company. The move will leave Arafura as a gold and rare earths company based on its substantial Nolans Bore rare earths, phosphate and ur
From marron to premium nougat, the Western Australian food and beverage industry showcased an array of products at the recent Food and Hotel Asia 2006 Exhibition, held in Singapore.
The establishment of new firms, some prominent partner moves and a plentiful flow of new work have characterised the past year in Perth's legal fraternity.
Booms like the one we are experiencing come and go, but they can have a lasting effect. With treasury's coffers overflowing, we thought it was time to explore some new ideas for our great state and remind our government about some old ones.
Perth’s inner city continues to be a major investment focus in the local market amid strong off-the-plan apartment sales and major investments in new city residential and infrastructure projects.
Building approvals in Western Australia were down 21 per cent in February 2006 to 2,095, according to figures from the Department of Treasury and Finance.
Swan Valley and Regional Winemakers Association of WA president Arch Kosovich will this week tell his fellow winemakers 2006 has been a pretty good year.
The Moore River area is the state’s hottest property in the olive game, with sales of premium olives continuing to climb and the diversification of the products from the region finding new markets in Australia and overseas.
A Federal Court judge has cited evidence of "serious misconduct" and "ruthless disregard" for the interests of investors and creditors in the collapsed Westpoint property group as he appointed rece
Not long after I finished reading Corporate Elders: ‘Organisation Men’ Look Back (UWA Press) I had a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with the author, accomplished academic Professor Leonie Still.
They started life as ‘organisation men’ and have seen incredible change, including the WA Inc era. They are Western Australia’s corporate elders identified in a new book by Professor Leonie Still.
Emirates is one airline that uses MedLink services and has recently introduced the passenger health monitoring system, Tempus, from UK-based Remote Diagnostic Technologies Ltd (RDT).
As part of the celebrations to mark Qantas’s inaugural Sydney-San Francisco flight last month, the airline officially signed for up to 115 Boeing 787s to be used extensively from Perth.
If you haven’t set foot on a cruise ship and just want to put your toe in the water to test the experience, then Captain Cook Cruises may be a good option.
