More than a third of Australia's international student cohort is currently living or studying in their country of origin, with more than half of Chinese students stuck abroad.
Episode 4 of the Business News Future Perth podcast is now available, looking at issues surrounding Perth's transformation into a city of 3.5 million people.
The state government has agreed to raise its timber harvesting quota by 12,000 tonnes, after the construction industry warned a shortage threatened to delay projects.
While council amalgamations have been extensive across Australia in recent decades, organised opposition and one blundered attempt has made it a nonstarter here in WA.
Climate activists are continuing to block access to Woodside's Burrup Hub in Western Australia in a protest that has frustrated the company and the workers' union.
The ASX will have to strengthen its governance following ASIC's investigation into a major trading outage that forced the exchange to shut down for a day in November last year.
Hundreds of management and system control weaknesses have been found across state government departments, with a record number of red marks from auditors.
Tattarang has further expanded its portfolio of IT interests with an approximately $25 million investment in dark fibre infrastructure provider FibreconX.
Delorean Corporation has been selected to lead the construction of one of Victoria's largest food-waste-to-energy plants as part of a contract worth at least $40 million.
The looming vaccination deadline for some of the state's most critical industries will not exacerbate current labour shortages, Premier Mark McGowan claims.
Pitcher Partners chair Bryan Hughes and his wife Mai are looking to take their fresh food box business to the Australian Stock Exchange via a $6 million IPO.
Dozens of consultants were engaged across WA's public sector in the first half of this year, with Infrastructure WA spending nearly $1 million on external advisers.
Sales activity in Perth's new apartment market has slowed, as developers flag concerns about rapidly increasing costs amid competition with the residential housing construction sector.
Osborne Park-based Northfleet Transport has bought Kwik Logistics less than two weeks after the transport and crane hire business fell into the hands of administrators.
Perth-based fund manager Lester Group has snapped up Rockingham Central for $28.5 million, just months after construction on the commercial development was completed.
On today's episode of At Close of Business, senior journalist Claire Tyrrell investigates whether there's truth in the claim of renewed interest from investors in Perth's property market.
Great Boulder Resources has lodged a prospectus to raise funds for copper-nickel-cobalt spin-out, Cosmo Metals ahead of a proposed listing in the new year.
Swick Mining Services is on track to demerge and list its Orexplore Technologies business, with a shareholder meeting scheduled for next month and documents submitted to ASIC.
Kerry Stokes-backed developer Flagship has unveiled plans to build a 27-storey tower in the heart of Kings Square, situated in the $5.2 billion Perth City Link.
Northern Star Resources has exercised its right to acquire the 110 megawatt Parkeston power station in Kalgoorlie from Newmont Australia for $131 million ($US95 million).
