Investors found few gifts on the Australian market at the start of Christmas week as the prospect of reintroducing virus restrictions weighed on energy and bank shares.
ANALYSIS: Aboriginal leader Kado Muir has publicly asked a question many people are asking privately: why did premier Mark McGowan make so many changes in Friday’s ministerial reshuffle?
Fortescue Metals Group has pledged $750,000 to provide training, professional development and support for telephone crisis supporters under a three-year partnership with Lifeline WA.
The state government has awarded Province Resources’ green hydrogen project HyEnergy with lead agency status, lifting the group’s shares by more than 7 per cent.
Shares in Fremantle-based junior Bardoc Gold enjoyed a 13 per cent rise after revealing a takeover proposal from gold producer St Barbara valuing the company at $157 million.
Neerabup explorer Orbit Drilling and Bayswater engineering company B&Y Precision Engineering have been fined a combined $456,000 for a workplace death and injury by the state's workplace regulator.
Canadian Ambassador to China and McKinsey & Company mainstay Dominic Barton will take over as chair of Rio Tinto from May 2022, as the company navigates a post-Juukan Gorge era.
Australia has struck a deal to increase the local manufacturing of urea amid a global shortage, but Western Roads has expressed concerns that WA could be left out.
Residential developer Peet is suing major landholder G&M Candeloro Nominees for more than $1.3 million over a six-year-old sales management agreement between the parties.
DevelopmentWA has approved Edith Cowan University’s city campus proposal, with a contractor to build the $695 million project to be selected in February.
Afterpay and rivals Zip and Sezzle have fallen heavily on the Australian share market due to a possible US probe into consumer harms from their services.
Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the border reopening, cabinet reshuffle, economic updates, coastal developments, royalties windfall and workplace safety.
Perenti will sell its geochemical and precious metal analyses subsidiary to competitor ALS for $43.6 million as part of a reassessment of its operations.
GenusPlus Group has secured more work on Fortescue's $US250 million transmission project, having been selected to build a 98-kilometre powerline for the iron ore miner.
