Mark Beyer

Canadian engineering giant WSP Global will more than double the size of its WA operation to 1,300 people after agreeing to buy most of Calibre Group’s business.

Matt Mckenzie and Mark Beyer discuss Western Australia’s 50 most influential people. Plus: Tourism spending, referendum and CBD office vacancies.

Our annual update of WA’s 50 most influential people analyses those using their role and profile to make a difference.

Highly-feted Perth startup Tiller Rides is seeking a new owner to help commercialise its e-bikes after being hit by delays and churning through $5 million from investors.

Five months after striking a deal to buy Pfizer’s WA manufacturing operation, Bridgewest Group has completed the purchase and outlined plans to add to its 400 local staff.

Perth-based contractor Whittens has been fined $425,000 over the death of a worker at Inpex’s Ichthys LNG facility near Darwin in 2017.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss WA's booming critical minerals sector, plus the latest on Qantas and Activ Foundation.

Mineral Resources has stepped up its calls for increased government support for processing of ‘critical minerals’ in Australia saying it is needed to match subsidies on offer elsewhere.

ANALYSIS: Richard Goyder is renowned as one of Australia’s top company chairs but he seems to have surprisingly modest expectations for his chief executives, especially Gillon McLachlan.

South Africa’s Murray & Roberts is poised to regain control of Perth-based RUC Cementation Mining Contractors while selling its majority stake in another local firm, Insig Technologies.

Shares in lithium project developer Liontown Resources have jumped nearly 70 per cent after it disclosed US company Albemarle Corporation had submitted three takeover proposals.

Goldminer Northern Star Resources is a high-cost producer relative to its peers and is likely to substantially increase annual capital expenditure to $1.3 billion, a ratings agency has found.

The Greens will back Labor's safeguard mechanism laws after a deal was struck, creating new hurdles for oil and gas projects but helping manufacturers.

Matt Mckenzie and Mark Beyer discuss Rivet Mining Services, Brickworks, WA's population, Clive Palmer, DPLH's audit red mark and Andrew Forrest's nickel bid.

The state government has selected Perth business Spacecubed to run the co-working and event space at Technology Park in Bentley after a $7.5 million upgrade.

Perth company Austral Fisheries has revealed a further expansion into northern Australia after reporting strong growth in revenue and profits.

Perth’s largest and most profitable tech company, VGW Holdings, has announced a share buy-back for investors wanting to cash in their holdings but has no plans for an IPO.

Clive Palmer’s private company has posted a bumper annual profit of $276 million as he continues to benefit from a lucrative royalties deal on a Pilbara iron ore project.

Senior editor Mark Beyer talks to Jordan Murray about why some charities are grappling with whether to pay fees to their non-executive directors.

Not for profits are grappling with remuneration for their directors, with one major group scaling back its payments.

Western Australia’s population grew by a strong 1.8 per cent in the year to September 2022, helped by an unusually large increase in overseas migration into the state.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the latest on The Perth Mint, Clive Palmer and Reserve Bank of Australia, and preview next fortnight's edition of Business News.

More than $1.6 billion is being invested in waste treatment projects in WA, but it may not be enough to improve the state’s poor track record.

Senior editor Mark Beyer discusses why record levels of investment in waste treatment projects may not be enough to repair WA's flagging recycling efforts.

Chinese company CITIC Pacific Mining could be forced to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to Clive Palmer to gain access to additional land for its Sino Iron project after being strongly criticised in a Supreme Court ruling.

Lynas Rare Earths has secured a major funding boost from a Japanese government-backed entity on the proviso that Japanese customers are given priority in future.

Rio Tinto has agreed to pay a $US15 million ($A21.5 million) penalty to settle a long-running dispute over alleged bribery relating to the Simandou iron ore project in Africa.

National cold chain operator Scott’s Refrigerated Logistics will reportedly be liquidated, with 1,500 staff to be unemployed.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss BGC, CoreLogic, Real Estate Institute of WA, Silverleaf Investments, MTi Group, BDO, ASIC and changes to superannuation.

Drilling services company MTi Group has been sold by local private equity group Viburnum Funds, adding to a string of sales of local firms to global mining services giants.

Pilbara Minerals and its partner POSCO have secured backing from two government-owned banks for their lithium hydroxide refinery being built in South Korea at a cost of $1.1 billion.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss planning reforms, Madeleine King, venture capital funding, Eurovision, Mineral Resources, and next fortnight's edition of Business News.