Dan Wilkie rejoined the Business News editorial team as Associate Editor in late 2018, after having spent the previous 18 months launching the now-defunct Australia China Business Review as founding editor-in-chief. While specialising in commercial and residential property writing, Dan also wrote across industries and assisted editor Mark Beyer in planning and producing Business News' daily emails, fortnightly magazine and website publishing. Dan is a graduate of Curtin University.
Perth-based waste management firm Tox Free Solutions has won a contract worth between $20 million and $25 million for the Australia Pacific liquefied natural gas project in Queensland.
Geraldton-based Centrals Civil Earthmoving and Mining Contractors has won two major three-year mining services contracts with MMG Golden Grove, which it says will create 40 new jobs in the Mid West
Murchison Metals has narrowed its full year net loss after stronger iron ore prices boosted sales revenue, and has scaled back activities at its troubled Oakajee port project in the Mid West.
Blackham Resources says it is currently evaluating a $15 million cash and royalties offer for its 70 per cent stake in the Scaddan coal project, near Esperance, while at the same time announcing th
Brisbane-based power generator ERM Power has gotten the nod from the Western Australian environmental watchdog to build a $500 million power station and gas pipeline at Three Springs in the Mid Wes
Western Australian homebuyers are the least confident in the nation, according to a report released today, but nearly half of the state’s prospective homebuyers say now is a good time to enter the
Premier Colin Barnett has flagged the possible re-merger of electricity utilities Verve and Synergy, saying the break-up of Western Power by the previous Labor government “has not worked”.
Seven Group Holdings has launched an off-market takeover bid to acquire the remaining interest it does not already hold in National Hire Group, parent company of the Coates Hire and Allight equipme
Developer Port Bouvard has passed a significant milestone in the development of its Point Grey master-planned community, gaining subdivision approval for the project’s first 341 lots.
The state government says it is in the final stages of deciding between Lend Lease and Brookfield Multiplex as its preferred developer for the flagship four-hectare Waterbank site, part of the Rive
Perth-based explorer Lemur Resources has signed an agreement with the Madagascan government to explore the development of a coal-fired power station to power its Imaloto coal project.
Brockman Resources has replaced most of its board of directors in the wake of Hong Kong investment house Wah Nam International taking a controlling stake in the iron ore junior.
Cradle Resources is well positioned in the junior exploration sector after completing a $2.4 million initial public offering and listing on the Australian Securities Exchange, chairman Michael Ashf
Fortescue Metals Group chairman Andrew Forrest has provided nearly $100 million since the beginning of September to selected company executives to enable them to purchase FMG stock on-market.
Chevron has found another Japanese customer for gas from its $25 billion Wheatstone liquefied natural gas joint venture, signing a sale and purchase agreement with Japan’s Kyushu Electric Power Com
Home sellers in Perth are pulling their properties off the market in droves as the median house price notches up its sixth consecutive quarter of declines, the Real Estate Institute of Western Aust
VDM Group has confirmed a full year net loss of $35.5 million for the year ended June 30, driven by $39.2 million in writedowns and a slowdown in revenue.
Western Power will replace or reinforce 164,000 power poles and re-install 1,073 kilometres of power lines under its new $8.5 billion, five-year investment plan, which the power utility is preparin
Perth-based surface treatment technology firm Alexium International has received an additional purchase order for 100 yards of specially treated materials from the United States’ Department of Defe
Premier Colin Barnett has come under fire from the Australian Institute of Architects and the state opposition for scrapping a design competition for the $700 million, 60,000-seat sports stadium at
The Wallabies will play rugby union Test Matches against South Africa and Argentina in Perth over the next three years, under a new deal announced by the state government.
Rio Tinto has committed to spend a further $US833 million ($813 million) in the Pilbara, as part of its drive "to substantially increase iron ore production capacity".
Pankaj Oswal and Radhika Oswal and their former business partner, Norwegian chemicals giant Yara International, have both claimed victories in the Supreme Court of Western Australia today, in a bat
Australia’s largest print and design network, Snap Franchising, has announced it will shift its head office out of Perth, after appointing Stephen Edwards to succeed Grant Vernon as chief executive
Eastern states tourists have spent a whopping $103 million less in Western Australia in 2010-11, compared to the previous year, according to data released today.
The head of Chinese steel group Aosen Steel has acquired a cornerstone interest in Cleveland Mining Company, taking up $4.08 million of the miner’s recently completed $10.1 million share placement.
A third of Western Australia’s employers say they expect to increase hiring over the next year, but job seekers are still reluctant to head west, according to a new survey.
Australia has joined Europe as the only markets globally to record a significant increase in company collapses over the June quarter, according to a new report.
Hanlong Mining is under investigation by the Australian Securities and Investments Commission for suspected insider trading activities in the stock of its takeover targets, Perth-based miners Banne