The Australian share market has opened higher, with almost every sector recording a positive start on the first day of the new financial year after the US and China agreed to restart trade talks.
Crown Resorts' Barry Felstead and ABN Group's Andrew Roberts are among the top five fundraisers this year for Vinnie's CEO Sleepout, raising more than $130,000 each to help break the cycle of homelessness.
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Administrations in Western Australia hit their lowest level in five years in the March quarter, but pressure continues for construction and hospitality.
Regional Development Minister Alannah MacTiernan announced the Collie Future investment prospectus this morning, touting millions of dollars in funding for the regional town.
While many Perth hospitality operators are closing their doors, a national group is building a solid portfolio of restaurants and bars across the city.
Triton Minerals has secured a $19.5 million investment from China-based company Jinan Hi-tech, which it said would be used to start early construction works at its Ancuabe graphite project in Mozambique.
Newly minted opposition leader Liza Harvey has revealed her shadow cabinet, with former leader Mike Nahan appointed as shadow minister for planning and Asian engagement.
Oil Search has exercised a $US450 million ($A642 million) option to double its stake in a string of Alaskan exploration leases, while also affirming plans to sell off a portion of its first major venture outside Papua New Guinea.
Oil prices edged higher overnight on expectations that OPEC will extend an output cut agreement while investors awaited a meeting between the United States and China that could produce a breakthrough on trade talks.
Gold steadied overnight as investors looked for further cues from trade talks between the United States and China, which bolstered risk appetite and lifted the US dollar but the metal held on to support around the key $US1,400 per ounce pivot.
TNG has signed a binding contract with rail operator Genesee & Wyoming Australia to haul product from the Mount Peake vanadium-titanium-iron mine more than 1100 kilometres to a processing facility in Darwin, Northern Territory.
The state government inquiry into the City of Melville has highlighted transparency issues, following nearly 300 complaints made against the City since 2014.
The state government says it will reverse indexation changes made by the previous Liberal National Government, and commit an additional $30.2 million to the community services sector.
A $55 million development in West Leederville and a $27 million development in Mount Lawley have been approved this past week, with more than one hundred residential spaces to be completed in Perth's north within in the next three years.
Flinders Mines is launching legal action in the Supreme Court of Western Australia against the owner of stock forum HotCopper Holdings, seeking details of users alleged to have made defamatory statements in relation to the board and company.
