Singapore Exchange has lodged a formal application to the Foreign Investment Review Board regarding its proposed $8.4 billion merger with the Australian Securities Exchange.
Training and Workforce Development minister Peter Collier says a new $23 million trades training centre in Clarkson will fill a significant gap in training opportunities in the northern corridor.
The Australian Greens say they will oppose any moves to compensate mining giants under a carbon price, amid calls from Rio Tinto that business will struggle to adapt, and from Woodside Petroleum, which says its exports should be exempt from the tax.
Lanco Infratech says it will increase production at Griffin's coal mines near Collie by a factor of four, after it completed the $750 million acquisition of the assets.
Singaporean engineering firm MTQ now holds a 12 per cent stake in Neptune Marine, after the struggling shipbuilder and engineering firm announced it had reached the minimum subscription level in its $80.6 million capital raising.
Building approvals fell in Western Australia over January, but WA fared better than most of the rest of the nation, according to the Housing Industry Association.
Strategic Marine has expanded its exposure to the booming north-west, after winning a contract to build a 27-metre work barge for Karratha-based Offshore Plant Hire.
Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union boss Kevin Reynolds will step down at Christmas after nearly 40 years at the head of WA's construction union.
A joint venture between Leighton Contractors and Opus International Consultants has been awarded a $191 million, five-year maintenance contract for the Wheatbelt South and Wheatbelt North regional road networks.
One of Australia's largest and most powerful unions has broken new ground by adopting a brand that rivals the more imaginative branding strategies dreamed up corporate marketing executives.
Fresh from its $1.2 billion takeover of Citadel Resource Group, West Perth-based Equinox Minerals has launched a $C4.8 billion ($A4.83 billion) bid for Canadian base metals producer Lundin Mining Corporation.
Apex Minerals says it has been told the gas supply to its Wiluna mine would be disrupted for the next week as a result of damage caused by cyclone Carlos at Apache's Varanus Island gas processing facility.
State employee superannuation provider GESB has appointed Oakajee Port & Rail chief executive John Langoulant as its new chairman for five years, effective from March 7.
Perth-based engineering and construction group Clough has announced that its Clough Curtain joint venture has been awarded $209 million in work orders associated with the PNG liquefied natural gas upstream infrastructure project.
Transport Minister Troy Buswell has awarded a $42 million contract for the duplication of a section of Dampier Highway to the Highway Works Albem joint venture.
