On today's episode of At Close of Business, political editor Gary Adshead and senior journalist Matt Mckenzie review the highlights from today's budget announcement.
Fiscal discipline may be Mark McGowan's bread and butter, but today's budget announcement was packed with new spending commitments for the state's health, education and tourism sectors.
Five years after the state government declared it wanted to make electricity prices cost reflective, Synergy is set to receive about $1.7 billion of subsidies over the next four years.
Australian technology stocks have suffered their worst single-day losses since early in the pandemic, while the local bourse hit a fresh 14-week low after declining for a fourth day in five sessions.
BHP has signed a $9.2 million contract with Aboriginal business Karlka FenceWright and pledged to more than double its annual spending with the sector.
A scaled back version of the initial $32 million Busselton Jetty expansion has been given the go-ahead by the city, after a drastic costs spike almost made the project "impossible".
ANALYSIS: With close to a dozen industrial agreements under negotiation and a forecasted salaries bill of $16.2 billion, the state government is holding firm on its public sector wages policy.
Rising costs for the Yanchep and Thornlie to Cockburn rail lines, and two new investments, have helped lift the state government's bill for 18 Metronet projects to $9.1 billion.
A $5.7 billion surplus, lower net debt than forecast and an unemployment rate six per cent below the national level. It’s enough, said Premier and Treasurer Mark McGowan, to make the other states and territory treasurers “green with envy”.
A new gallery focused on matching local early-career artists to people wanting to buy their first pieces of art is opening a temporary exhibition in Northbridge tonight.
A Dampier Port redevelopment designed to facilitate Perdaman’s $4.3 billion urea project and tipped to diversify trade has been referred to the environmental watchdog.
Western Australia has recorded another 16,670 COVID cases overnight, sending the number of active infections in the state beyond 75,000 for the first time since the pandemic began.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia third quarter cash profit has remained steady at $2.4 billion as growth in home and business lending was offset by the impact of ongoing margin pressure.
A major US movie has committed to postproduction in WA, as the ABC struck a deal with Screenwest to feature local documentaries during a primetime slot.
Fremantle’s Victoria Quay is set for a transformation with the government investing in other opportunities while flagging the relocation of the livestock and motor vehicle trade.
The Australian share market has finished in the green for the first time since last Thursday, rising slightly higher ahead of key US inflation data due to be released overnight.
