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Well-connected former Joondalup Health Campus boss Kempton Cowan has been hit with nine new child abuse allegations, after federal police screened his electronic devices.

The court has dismissed property developer Luke Saraceni’s appeal against Commonwealth Bank of Australia over the $500 million Raine Square project.

It might have seemed like a battle between resources efficiency and digital health and wellbeing but the winner of this year’s Curtinnovation awards was from the traditional world of medical research – a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

The local share market has climbed in afternoon trading to finish Friday up 0.5 per cent, with energy and mining sectors particularly strong.

Kalium Lakes has recruited Cheryl Edwardes as its new non-executive director and chairperson as part of a ‘concerted focus on board renewal’ and pursuit to get its potash flagship back on track.

The family behind Frankland River-based winery Swinney has inked a deal to acquire Accolade Wines’ Brookland Valley Estate in the South West.

Osborne Park-based transport company Northfleet has partnered with Covalent Lithium to deliver what is considered Australia’s first electric coach for the mining industry.

The nursing union has hit back at claims it is being disingenuous in its wages deal talks with the state government, arguing the package had a lot of weasel words but was light on detail.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss interest rates, stockmarket wobbles, house prices, biggest taxpayers, Lawson Apartments, Burgess Rawson and CBH Group.

As China ramps up the rhetoric, a host of international companies are taking their business elsewhere.

CEO Alan Joyce has told shareholders at its annual general meeting the airline is returning to its pre-COVID levels of service.

Rio Tinto’s new chair is cleaning house and planning the miner’s next steps.

State and territory authorities are bracing for an uptick in COVID-19 infections as new variants of the virus spread across Australia.

Cybercrime rises to one every seven minutes

Parents of Loreto Nedlands students have demanded a swathe of documents amid a probe into the sudden decision to close the school.

Senior editor Mark Beyer discusses shifts atop Data & Insights' ranking of environmental services firms and offers highlights from his recent conversation with Ecocene.

Ecocene blends a traditional environmental consultancy with new technology.

Commuters battling their way onto freeways from Perth CBD in peak hour may be in for some relief, with Infrastructure Australia endorsing early-stage plans to ease the infamous congestion.

The local share market has fallen sharply after the chairman of America's powerful central bank declared rate hikes had "still some ways to go".

Amber-Jade Sanderson branded the nursing union's rejection of a second wages deal “disingenuous”, claiming it was now the only thing standing in the way of getting its key demand.

Firefinch’s ailing Morila goldmine in Mali is tipped to fall into insolvency, with the company unable to raise capital to revive the operation or find a suitable buyer.

HBF has acquired its second Queensland-based business in 18 months with the purchase of QCHF.

Investor relations and communications firm Citadel-MAGNUS has closed a bumper $50 million sale to US company Morrow Sodali, with two Perth executives among the big winners.

Lovegrove Turf Farm’s founders are selling 15ha of land in Wattle Grove worth more than $20 million, after years of interest from some of the country’s largest developers.

A series of big mergers and acquisitions has reshaped the ranking of environmental consulting firms in WA, with WSP and GHD topping the sector.

Jim Chalmers has acknowledged the business community may not end up in agreement with the government on its industrial relations reforms.

New data reveals just how much WA businesses contributed to the federal treasury during the pandemic, with 10 corporates paying $27.5 billion in the year to June 2021.

A project proposed on the former Ford Motors and Matilda Bay Brewery site is off to a rocky start with the City of Fremantle’s planning committee opposing the $185 million proposal.

Mineral Resources’ battle with a former contracts manager has spilled out into the Supreme Court, with the Chris Ellison-led miner pursuing a partner in the alleged secret commissions deal.

The federal opposition is calling on the government to allow extensive debate on controversial workplace law changes.

Woolworths says that inflation accelerated during the September quarter, with food prices rising an average of 7.3 per cent.

Bookies face probe into dirty money