Mark Beyer

London-based Central Asia Metals has struck an $185 million agreement to buy ASX company New World Resources, led by Perth-based chairman Richard Hill.

This year's First Amongst Equals winner has built a 100 per cent Aboriginal-owned business in a new sector.

Perth dealmaker Geoff Lewis has once again tapped his football connections to help with business, signing up former Eagles coach Adam Simpson as a director of ASX-hopeful Stepchange Holdings.

Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss RAC's $1.35bn insurance sale; the Women's and Babies hospital; CEO moves; apartments; the Burswood precinct; industrial estates; and a mag preview.

The Motor Trades Association has called on the competition regulator to block the takeover of RAC Insurance and its counterparts in QLD and SA by two industry giants.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has reported surprisingly strong jobs growth in the month of April while the country’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was steady at 4.1 per cent.

The RAC has become the latest state-based motoring group to sell its insurance business, with Sydney-based IAG paying $1.35 billion for the WA business.

Elisha Newell and Mark Beyer discuss the state of renewable energy projects throughout Western Australia.

The future shape of WA’s energy market has become a little clearer this year, but there are many pieces needed to finish the puzzle.

Perth company WA Premix has been fined $580,000 after a worker was seriously injured at its Neerabup concrete batching plant.

Perth consulting firm Ralph Beattie Bosworth has been awarded a contract to provide cost planning services for the proposed Women and Babies Hospital at Murdoch.

Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the federal election; the Woodside AGM; 40u40 awards; apartment projects; business deals; takeovers in the gold sector; Clive Palmer; and the NRL.

The private German investor behind last year’s purchase of Perth-based RUC Mining Contractors from Murray & Roberts has revealed an unusual multi-million dollar gain on the deal.

Chinese mining group CITIC and Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy have partially settled their differences, agreeing to submit a crucial mine continuation plan while their Supreme Court trial continues.

ASX company Tivan has struck funding agreements worth $117 million with Japan’s Sumitomo and an unnamed Australian family office to pursue development of the Speewah fluorite project.

Aurizon Holdings is planning 200 job cuts across its rail business after taking several hits over the past year, including a big fall in bulk haulage volumes in WA.

Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss the upcoming federal election; City of Perth; Colin Barnett; property developments; Woodside; MinRes; wind farms; and more.

Mid West miner GMA Garnet Group returned to profit in 2024 but its trading performance has been muddied by large impairments in each of the past two years.

Perth company Green Wind Renewables has mapped out an ambitious plan to develop at least four wind farms in WA by 2030 in partnership with a Macquarie Group offshoot.

Rio Tinto says it will spend $20 billion in the Pilbara over the next three years as the Robe River Kuruma Aboriginal Corporation questions the board on claims of underpayments and inaction.

Sam Jones and Mark Beyer discuss key issues within Western Australia's resources sector.

Prominent Perth lawyers Jason Ricketts, David Hugo and Tony Joyner have teamed up for the launch of an independent firm providing a mix of legal and consultancy services.

A mining sector forum has tackled issues ranging from negative policy settings to lack of understanding about the sector’s contribution.

WA’s Auditor General has raised concern about the terms on which DevelopmentWA acquires land from other government agencies in a report that otherwise commended improved financial controls.

Cedar Woods has become the second land developer in two days to announce upgraded earnings, with its more affordable sub-divisions in Queensland and WA driving its improved performance.

Sam Jones and Mark Beyer discuss lessons Australia could learn from the US shipbuilding industry.

The half-owner of the Bluewaters coal power station is pursuing the development of a major wind farm in WA’s South West in partnership with local outfit Wind with Purpose.

The US Navy has developed new funding and training solutions as it seeks to lift shipbuilding capability.

Perth-based contractor Linkforce has lodged a claim for $22.7 million over construction work it completed on an expansion of the Roy Hill iron ore project.

The Supreme Court has rejected an eleventh-hour bid by Clive Palmer’s Mineralogy to add a massive counter-claim to its long-running battle with Chinese iron ore producer CITIC.

WA’s oldest and largest dairy company, Brownes, has been put up for sale after its Chinese owner got into financial difficulty over a $200 million loan.

UPDATED: The state government has named three directors general who will head up new departments and revealed two other DGs including Richard Sellers are set to retire while five key roles remain unfilled.