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MG Corporation has signed a memorandum of understanding with Cubbie Farming to investigate the feasibility of growing cotton in the East Kimberley region.

Australia’s chief executives have listed digital transformation as their top concern heading into a new decade, according to KMPG’s annual survey of nearly 200 c-suite executives.

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WA consumers are entering 2020 with subdued confidence, according to research from the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of WA, with four out of five consumers surveyed expecting the economy to worsen or stay the same.

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Sea to Summit will receive $30 million as part of a contract with the Australia Defence Force, with the WA-based defence business providing shelters, training and protective equipment to personnel in Australia and overseas.

Neometals has secured funding from the Innovative Manufacturing CRC to accelerate development of its synthetic zeolite manufacturing process.

The Chamber of Minerals and Energy of WA has celebrated the addition of 12,000 jobs to the state's resource sector in the 2018-19 financial year, bringing the overall number of workers employed in the sector to 124,010.

WA’s cultural infrastructure offers a window into the evolution of the state’s artistic offering over the past century

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Common household expenses have increased markedly in the past year with many low-income earners unable to keep pace, according to new modelling released by the WA Council of Social Service.

WestStar subsidiary SIMPEC has been awarded $6 million in contract extensions, bringing the total value of contracts awarded to the company since July to $30 million.

Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is confident his government will be able to keep its election promise of surpluses over the next four years, despite marked downgrades to the outlook in his last budget update.

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Talga Resources has raised $3.25 million from an institutional placement, following the announcement of a $6 million raising from an oversubscribed share purchase plan earlier this week.

The Manjimup-bred burgundy apple Bravo is closer to being sold internationally, after businesses in Europe and South Africa signed an MOU to progress plans for its commercialisation.

A quarterly rebalancing of S&P/ASX indices has resulted in South32 being relegated from the top 20 index, and Galaxy Resources being dropped from the top 200 index.

The corporate regulator is seeking to wind-up an alleged unregistered managed investment scheme run by Mt Hawthorn resident Chris Marco, who received about $240 million from 132 investors.

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There have been 33 insolvency appointments to Western-Australian-incorporated companies in the past fortnight.

Graphite explorer Talga Resources has raised $6 million from an oversubscribed share purchase plan, in excess of the $3 million target announced last month.

The City of Stirling has streamlined the approvals processes and cut red tape for small businesses in the area, as part of the Small Business Friendly Approvals Project.

Malaga-based UON has announced Macquarie Bank as a strategic investor of the company, as it looks to bring new technology and solutions to Western Australia’s mining sector.

A fund managed by Primewest has sold a historic building and an adjoining eight-storey office tower in Brisbane’s CBD for $47.4 million.

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Industrial Relations Minister Bill Johnston has unveiled a raft of strategies to crack down on wage theft, while at the same time a national Fair Work sting at capital city hospitality hotspots revealed 75 per cent of businesses were breaking the law.

Aspire Mining  has made some changes to its board with the appointment of non-executive director Achit-Erdene Darambazar as managing director, executive chair David Paull tran

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Perth creative agency Rare has joined forces with one of the sector’s newest data and technology players, Omnicom Media Group’s Hearts & Science brand, to launch a media firm in Western Austral

Scott Morrison is reducing the number of federal government departments and sacking five senior bureaucrats in a major shake-up of the public service.