A new survey has found builder sentiment fell back in the last quarter corresponding with declining expectations for building industry activity and raising concerns over future economic and employment prospects.
A new Brisbane-based satellite telco has launched in Australia focusing on remote and regional areas, targeting the mining and resources companies operating in the Pilbara and Kimberley regions.
Defence Minister John Faulkner has become the second senior minister in the Australian government to annouce plans to step down from his current role after the upcoming federal election.
Perth company Mobilarm plans to seek a third extension to the closing date for its $4 million initial public offering, highlighting the patchy demand for new sharemaret floats.
A Perth-based iron sands mining company, Mayan Iron, will list on the ASX this week after a successful initial public offering, ensuring exploration licences in coastal Guatemala and signing a Memorandum of Understanding with a Chinese steelmaker.
Australian mining executive John Carr-Gregg, tragically killed in a plane crash in West Africa, has been remembered as a gentleman and family man at a memorial service in Sydney.
The proposed $1.6 billion initial public offering for Bilfinger Berger's local arm, Valemus, which would've been the largest since Myer's $2.2 billion float in November last year, has been canned.
Campbell Brothers has lodged a bidder's statement on behalf of its wholly owned subsidiary Australian Laboratory Services, making an off-market bid to acquire all ordinary shares in metallurgical services operator Ammtec.
Aquila's West Pilbara Iron Ore project is one step closer to the go-ahead, with a positive result evolving from its definitive feasibility study of Stage 1 of the project.
Port Hedland port, already Australia's biggest export port, has broken its own full year record with throughput of 178.6 million tonnes during 2009-10.
Shares in building products, sugar and energy group CSR Ltd rose strongly on Monday after the company said it had found a buyer for its sugar and renewable energy business for $1.75 billion.
Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has retained his popularity, emerging streets ahead of Labor Opposition Leader Eric Ripper as preferred leader, the latest Newspoll shows.
Victorian based Oz Minerals has spent $100 million to acquire a 19 per cent stake in Sandfire Resources, whose share price rocketed on the discovery of a gold-copper deposit near Meekathara last year.
The state government says the construction of two unique high efficiency gas turbines at the Kwinana power station will improve the reliability of electricity supplied to the state's south.
West Perth-based Crusader Resources has announced it has completed a $4.2 million capital raising to fund its gold, iron ore, exploration and mine developments in Brazil.
The federal government's mining tax compromise has received a mostly positive response from the resources sector but mid-cap mining companies are still angry they were left out of the negotiations.
BC Iron has reached an agreement with the Nyiyaparli People whose claim covered the southern part of its Nullagine Iron Ore Join Venture with Fortescue Metals Group, in the East Pilbara.
RIO Tinto has formally opened a high-tech operations centre in Perth that remotely controls its network of iron ore mines, railways and port operations in the Pilbara.
Two Perth developers, Cedar Woods and Jaxon, are among nine developers to have successfully bid for land in the Pilbara Cities initiative at South Hedland.
The board of Dynasty Metals has accepted an offer from Chinese steel producer, Hebei XingHua Iron and Steel, to take a 34 per cent stake in the company.
West-Perth based Atlantic has announced plans for a $55 million capital raising to fund construction and commissioning of the Windimurra vanadium project in Western Australia.
Grain handler CBH Group is evaluating competing bids for hauling WA's grain crop after the current provider, Australian Railroad Group, and several other rail providers submitted tenders.
Fortescue Metals CEO Andrew Forrest has stepped up pressure on Prime Minister Julia Gillard on the resource super profits tax by releasing details of a compromise reached with her predecessor.
The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) is urging the Federal Government not to step back from its budget announcement that it will gradually increase the Superannuation Guarantee (SG) to 12 percent.
