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Privatisation off the table as government resets NBN policy

WA’s aspiring gold producers are navigating new challenges to firm up discoveries.

Rio Tinto has reported a fall in interim earnings from last year’s record levels after being hit by the decline in iron ore prices and rising costs.

Decmil shares closed the day at a three-month high despite the contractor bracing investors for a $102 million loss for the financial year following a handful of downgrades.

The Australian share market has rebounded from its morning losses to finish in the green after second-quarter inflation data came in slightly below expectations.

Simone Grogan and Mark Beyer go over the highlights of their goldminers feature, including how price fluctuations are affecting local players and Northern Star Resources' dominance in the market.

Interest rate rises are tipped to send property prices plunging up to 15 per cent nationally over the next 18 months, but Perth is expected to buck the trend.

Mincor Resources has appointed senior mining executive Gabrielle Iwanow as the company’s new chief executive after David Southam’s decision to step down.

The building that Napoleon Street cafe Vans occupies sold for a record price for the strip, changing hands after close to 70 years of ownership.

The state has handed over swaths of subsidised land for 44 affordable homes in the housing-strapped resources hub of Karratha, but it will only put a small dent in the waiting list.

A $6.5 million temporary facility in South Boulder for MLG Oz and TopDrill workers has been approved to address an accommodation shortfall in the Kalgoorlie-Boulder region.

Developers are navigating choppy waters to progress tourism resorts in regional WA.

Business News has tracked dramatic changes in the ranking of WA’s largest goldminers over more than a decade.

Premier Mark McGowan says international factors are driving inflation, after Perth prices rose 7.4 per cent in the year to June, Australia’s highest rate.

Annual inflation data for the June quarter is expected to come in at 6.2 per cent but there's some concern it could be closer to seven per cent.

Detailed plans of Adrian Fini’s $280 million Smiths Beach Project will be scrutinised during a six-week public consultation phase.

Westpac joins the 10-minute mortgage race

Perth-based Greenpool Capital has partnered with global real estate investment manager Savills to acquire a shopping centre in Perth’s south-east for $81.5 million.

A new Keystart product has opened the state scheme to a cohort of wealthier Western Australians.

A forensic inquiry into the sale of assets by the state government has been welcomed by the opposition.

Madeleine Stephens discusses what she found out when she wrote about businesses trialing a four-day work week.

Strong gains for the energy and mining sectors have helped the Australian share market edge higher ahead of key inflation data.

After almost three decades in business, the Staines family has agreed to hand over the reins of their Esperance farm equipment business to machinery giant McIntosh & Son.

Subiaco-based SRG Global has bolstered its order book with two contracts from Northern Star Resources and Meridian Energy respectively, valued at some $90 million.

CBD retail vacancy rates have hit a new high of 20.6 per cent, despite spending patterns improving, JLL research shows.

Not-for-profit health care group St John of God has unveiled plans to build a new hospital in the state’s South West next year in a bid to keep pace with the region’s growing population.

Singapore-based High Street Holdings has purchased Peppers Kings Square hotel in Perth CBD for roughly $26 million, with a rebrand in the works.

Bis chief executive officer Brad Rogers will leave the mining logistics company after 14 years for a new role with ASX-listed Jupiter Mines.

With strokes contributing to the loss of 10,000 lives in Australia last year, UWA’s new chair in stroke research wants greater focus on prevention.

WA has been a leader in energy policy, but there are risks.

The state’s peak resources body says it needs more time to consider the implications of introducing the industry-wide workers’ register proposed following the FIFO mine inquiry.

Thiess has launched an off-market takeover bid to buy Western Australia’s largest mining services business for an estimated $350 million in cash.