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Investment flows from Perth to fund international projects and companies.

Telstra Corporation has sold off just under half its mobile towers business to a high-powered consortium, including Australia's sovereign wealth fund, for almost $3 billion.

Doctors are urging people aged under 60 to wait for the Pfizer vaccine, despite a surprise announcement from the prime minister that any adult who wants the AstraZeneca jab can have it.

Disaster assistance has been made available to help communities in Western Australia's northwest recover from damaging flooding earlier this month.

Ellison offers to source vaccine and deliver jabs

An industry participation plan has been approved for a potential $500 million-plus expansion of CSBP’s ammonia production in Kwinana, with Technip undertaking Feed work.

Synergy’s $120 million Kwinana battery project will head to development assessment next Tuesday, at least the third utility-scale storage proposal to be reviewed this year.

Former reality TV stars and competitive surfers Eliza and Mikaela Greene have entered the food ordering technology market with the launch of their phone application MyTab.

A late rally on a day blighted by coronavirus lockdowns helped the ASX be one of the better performers among Asian markets.

On today's episode of At Close of Business, journalist Madeleine Stephens discusses the push by disability advocates to change building regulations to improve housing accessability.

The state government has tasked Treasury with assessing potential compensation for small businesses affected by the latest snap four-day lockdown.

Osborne Park-based Veris has been appointed to a major rail project in Sydney where it will complete surveying works under a $2.5 million contract.

The planned levy to cover decommissioning costs from the Northern Endeavour could be 48 cents per barrel equivalent, with an industry group slamming the price tag.

Di Bain has been named Tourism WA chair and Anneke Brown and Janelle Marr have been appointed to the board after six members announced their resignations earlier this year.

Many WA businesses have straddled the divide between defence and commercial sectors.

For years now, local businesses have identified excessive regulation and red tape as a barrier to starting up and growing.

Engineering work for the $US2 billion Dorado oil and gas project will soon get under way, proponent Santos said, with a final decision due mid-2022.

A $450 million potash development in northern WA and a $269 million alumina refinery planned for Kwinana have received major project status from the federal government.

Western Australia has recorded no new cases of COVID-19 overnight, as those in the Perth and Peel regions enter their first day of the four-day circuit-breaker lockdown.

Six WA businesses including IPI Packers, Blasta Brewing, Bonissimo Coffee Roasters and Veem have been offered $4.5 million in federal government grants to support manufacturing projects.

Outdoor goods retailer Kathmandu says sales and earnings have been hit by recent coronavirus lockdowns in Australia, particularly in NSW and Victoria.

The Brand Agency and Clemenger BBDO Sydney have won a $34 million package of marketing contracts for Racing and Wagering WA’s TABtouch.

Doctors have been blindsided by a major change to the vaccine rollout, with all Australians aged under 40 now able to request the AstraZeneca jab from their GP.

Tasmania has closed its border to Perth and southeast Queensland in response to coronavirus community trasmission on the mainland.

Another iron ore boom has produced a long list of aspiring miners. We dig deep to assess who is likely to make it.

WA FIFO workers grounded

Perth and Peel will enter a snap four-day lockdown from midnight tonight after a third person tested positive for what genomic sequencing has confirmed is the Delta variant of COVID-19.

Winsome Resources has taken more steps towards listing on the ASX, with Canaccord Genuity appointed to lead its initial public offering.

Vysarn's hydrogeological and dewatering business has secured a $1.74 million contract from mineral sands miner Iluka Resources.

Investors piled into online retail and supermarket stocks tipped to profit from new coronavirus lockdowns in Australia, and abandoned travel providers.

Barton Gold has had a slow start to its first day of trading, with its shares down 12 per cent as the explorer gets ready to drill targets in South Australia.

Swoop Holdings has made its second major acquisition in under a month, picking up Community Communications and more than a dozen of its fixed-wireless towers for an undisclosed sum.