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Mobile phone tracking software could be compulsory if not enough Australians voluntarily download the application to help in coronavirus case tracing.

Rio Tinto is maintaining its 2020 production guidance for ore, bauxite, alumina and aluminium but expects mined and refined copper to drop further amid COVID-19 restrictions.

Brisbane-based jewellery group Michael Hill has suffered an 11.9 per cent dive in third quarter revenue across its global network after it closed shopfronts due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The Australian share market has risen in early trade following a strong overnight performance by US giants Amazon and Netflix and ahead of looming Chinese GDP data.

Gold fell after climbing 1.3 per cent overnight, as safe-haven demand weakened after US jobless claims rose less than a week ago and hopes grew for an easing of coronavirus-led curbs.

Oil prices were mixed overnight, as Brent crude rose modestly while US futures ended unchanged at an 18-year-low after some European countries said they would relax coronavirus restrictions even though OPEC lowered its global oil demand forecast.

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Virgin Australia is resuming a minimal national schedule while Qantas is expanding its domestic passenger services, with the new schedules including eight regional centres in Western Australia.

The Environmental Protection Authority has released its greenhouse gas guidance which maintains its goal of net zero emissions by 2050 but will be flexible in how it is applied, after receiving feedback on a draft it released in December.

Australian shares have trimmed earlier losses following a better-than-expected March jobs report but the market still closed in the red.

As catastrophic as the coronavirus-caused economic shutdown is for some, other businesses are finding opportunity

National LNG export revenue could fall by as much as 40 per cent in 2021 because of a collapse in the oil price, and the industry is unlikely to emerge as Australia’s saving grace as it did during the Global Financial Crisis.

A number of changes are taking place across business and the community, wrought by the pandemic; some temporary, some potentially permanent.

Australia could experience a sustained recession into the second half of 2020, new research from Bank of America predicts, while the latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics offers little insight into the impact of shutdowns on unemployment in Western Australia.

Western Australia’s rock lobster fishers have been given a temporary lifeline after the federal government brokered a deal to ship 500 tonnes of the local catch to China.

Australia's coronavirus restrictions will remain in place for four weeks. Health Minister Roger Cook has announced an expanded COVID-19 testing program in WA. The state has reported two new infections and an extra case from the Artania cruise ship.

The liquidator of Kimberley Diamonds, which was placed into administration in 2015, has announced the full return of money owed to around 125 former company employees.

The federal government has outlined seven principles for how public schools should respond to COVID-19, one day after Premier Mark McGowan reportedly began weighing whether to have classes return as normal in Term 2.

Decmil has announced the closure of its New Zealand subsidiary, citing major losses following the termination of a NZ$185 million contract with the country’s prisons department.

Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company’s near-term future is secure after it was included among the 95 organisations to receive four years' funding from the Australia Council for the Arts earlier this month.

Centurion has received a three-year contract extension to provide integrated logistics services for CITIC Pacific Mining’s Sino iron project in the Pilbara.

Wesfarmers chief Rob Scott believes the pandemic threat has been well handled by authorities so far, but has urged political leaders to ensure there is a level playing field when it comes to supporting business. Click through to watch the video interview.

One of Western Australia's biggest employers, Crown Resorts, has stood down 95 per cent of its national workforce due to coronavirus restrictions affecting its casinos and hospitality venues in Perth and Melbourne.

Australian shares have recorded sharp early losses as global equities sour and a likely bleak unemployment figure looms.

Pupils back to school in Term 2

US crude prices fell to an 18-year low and Brent lost more than 6.0 per cent after the United States reported its biggest weekly inventory build on record, while global demand is expected to fall to quarter-century lows due to the coronavirus pandemic.

Gold prices have fallen, a day after scaling over seven-year highs, as the dollar firmed and investors booked profits, although concerns of a global recession put a floor under prices.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) today released its ‘Characteristics of New Residential Dwellings’ report, detailing building costs and floorspace movement over the past 15 years nationall

The Australian share market has pulled back after two days of gains, as lower oil prices dragged down energy producers and as warnings mounted of worsening economic conditions because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Since the early part of the year when the pandemic first hit China hard, it has exposed a sovereign risk that we were all acutely aware of but, due to expedience, had allowed to increase over recen

Western Australia records just five new cases of COVID-19 while the federal government announces relief for the country's exporters and media outlets.

Margaret River winemaker Cath Oates will be acting chair of Wine Australia for three months, while a review of its board is undertaken.