The Australian share market plunged two per cent today amid heavy losses from the banks on continuing uncertainty about the economic outlook after the US Treasury bailed out home mortgage lenders Fred
The WA Sustainable Energy Association and the Australian Institute of Energy are to hold a breakfast entitled ‘BP Statistical Review of World Energy’, to be presented by London-based Christof Ruehl, B
THE Note has always been cautious about throwing stones in glass houses, but a missive from Liberal environment and climate change spokesperson Robyn McSweeney left us with no choice.
PERTH-BASED Rent.com.au Pty Ltd has formed a partnership with internet company Yahoo!7 to provide a rich user experience for Australian renters and landlords.
FORMER Dean of Murdoch University business school, Professor Michael Schaper, has been appointed as second deputy chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
WEST Perth-based Albidon Limited has delivered the first concentrate at its fully-owned Munali Nickel Project, 60 kilometres south of the Zambian capital Lusaka.
WESTERN Australia has recorded a 10.3 per cent rise in bankruptcy levels over the June quarter while national levels over the past financial year were at their second highest on record.
Energy: Alternatives and opportunities beyond the resources expansion The Australian British Chamber of Commerce is to host a breakfast briefing featuring guest speaker, Energy Minister Francis Logan.
START-UP telecommunications company TheBuzz Corp is seeking second-round funding for the roll-out of its VOIP technology to homes and businesses nationally.
Perth-based Mission Biofuels Ltd has secured a 12-month contract with a global oil trading company to supply up to 84,000 tonnes of biodiesel starting from next year.
Perth-based Avita Medical Ltd, formerly Clinical Cell Culture, has posted a 16 per cent increase in unaudited revenue over the 2008 financial year, underpinned by strong growth sales of its respiratory products.
Billions lost in US fallout; Primebroker play challenges ANZ's primacy; WA, Qld need extra 127,000 workers every year; Centro exits US portfolio for $728m to cut debts; Drivers spared climate pain as excise cut offsets new tax
Golden West Resources Ltd has hit out at major shareholder Portman Ltd over its proposal to change the make-up of the board, saying if it goes ahead, the latter will have effectively taken control of the company without paying a premium.
Tax grab 'threatening to derail' WA gas expansion; Goyder says scale vital in inflation fight; Toll takes $1.3b hit as it bales out of Virgin Blue; AWB wins backing for corporate overhaul; BHP, Rio cap iron ore price rises for Europe
US based Harbinger Capital has increased its shareholding in Western Australian iron ore miner Midwest Corporation Ltd from 9.1 per cent to 10.53 per cent.
West Perth-based gold miner Troy Resources NL has cashed in its profitable investment in Canadian company Comaplex, raising $47.9 million and potentially more under a 'top up' deal.
Protect BHP, Rio from ETS: Carpenter; More banks tipped to lift rates; US Feds shore up Fannie, Freddie; Jittery investors turn back on emerging company floats: survey; Tatts chief airs tie-up with Tabcorp
Newly-listed engineering company Emerson Stewart Group Ltd said it is on track to beat its fiscal 2008 earnings forecast, as outlined in its prospectus, by at least 5 per cent.
Miners' $500m bet on uranium; Gas find boosts Chevron's Wheatstone hopes; Monarch calls time over weight of Territory debt; Brierty mired in Boddington pay row; Alcoa chief cautious on emissions as costs soar
Adventure Learning Channel Worldwide has pushed back is planned listing on the Australian Securities Exchange to August after lowering its initial public offer to $2.5 million.
Western Australian companies APAC Coal Ltd and Kilgore Oil & Gas Ltd have succumbed to the overall market downturn today, debuting underwater on the Australian Securities Exchange.
Rio Tinto Ltd will sell its Kintyre uranium project in Western Australia to a joint venture consortium for $US495 million ($A520 million), as it moves closer to completing its $US10 billion ($A10.5 billion) asset sales target for this year.
IAG shores up its home defences; Gas blast deflates Alcoa's numbers; Fortnum mine owner in strife as fund pulls loan; Half-price tag on Chemeq HQ threatens payout; Macmahon to establish Aboriginal contractors
THE Yadgalah Aboriginal Corporation and Indigenous Business Australia this week sold their joint 50 per cent partnership interest in the Monkey Mia resort to Aspen Parks Property Management Ltd for $9
A NEW inter-departmental group has been formed by the state government to address the shortage of sand for building and construction work in the South West.
Calling all businesses with Scandavian links. Australia’s first ever international floorballing championships, is to be held at the Loftus Centre in Leederville next month.
EIGHT months after it bought the site for $70 million, Goodman International Ltd has signed US-based drilling services company, Boart Longyear Ltd, as the anchor tenant for its Stockyards Industrial E
