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GR Engineering Services has requested its shares be suspended from trading on the ASX while it assesses the impact of Eastern Goldfield’s now-retracted wind-up order, as well as a £7.5 million ($A12.2 million) bond claim notice lodged by Wolf Minerals.

UPDATED: The federal government has declined to provide co-funding for two irrigation projects in Western Australia’s South West that were expected to trigger a total investment of $460 million and create 1,500 jobs, after an expert panel found the WA government did not fully address the assessment criteria.

A dispute over Indian sandalwood producer Santanol Group has pitted 21 Western Australian investors, led by forestry veterans Bob Bunning and Tony Jack, against private equity giant KKR and its local representatives, including Jock Clough and incoming Wesfarmers executive Ed Bostock.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss South West irrigation schemes, sandalwood, NRW, and Lawleys, plus power and energy.

Film distributor Village Roadshow has won in legal proceedings brought against telco services including Telstra, forcing them to block domain names for services used to illegally download movies and other programs.

Aspiring heavy rare earths miner Northern Minerals has raised $2.5 million from investors to fund ongoing development of its Browns Range project in the Kimberley.

The Australian market has opened sharply lower.

WA’s share of GST ‘in the black’WA’s claims to being shortchanged by the GST system have been undermined by Victorian research that says WA is $25 billion in the black

The Australian dollar has fallen more than half a cent against its US counterpart with the greenback strengthening amid euro weakness following the release of European Central Bank's policy meeting minutes.

Oil prices have risen amid renewed attention on US oil stockpile declines after an industry report suggested oil inventories at the Cushing, Oklahoma hub were dropping.

Gold prices have risen for a second day after Federal Reserve officials hinted that US interest rates could rise more slowly than expected, while palladium has been lifted to a fresh 16-year high by strong industrial metals markets.

The Supreme Court of Western Australia has reversed its decision to wind-up Eastern Goldfields after it was revealed the relevant debt of $383,000 was paid on the same day the winding-up application was lodged.

The Australian share market has posted a modest fall, dragged lower by a massive sell-off of Telstra shares after the telco said it would cut future dividends.

Sheffield Resources has launched an indigenous employment program for its Thunderbird mineral sands project near Derby, as it deals with an appeal by a local Aboriginal group against recent project approvals.

NRW Holdings has reported a profitable 2017 financial year, but has withheld a dividend payout following its acquisition of Golding Group.

PHOTO ESSAY: Work boot company Steel Blue has shown niche, quality-focused manufacturing has a place in Western Australia.

Unemployment in Western Australia is at its lowest level in more than two years, with Treasurer Ben Wyatt saying it was pleasing to see the rise in employment driven by full-time work.

OPINION: In any normal case, efforts to economise and gain efficiencies to best represent your stakeholders would be applauded. So why is that not the case with the proposed merger of some of the nation’s most influential unions?

Potato growers say farmers may be forced to accept a $650,000 reimbursement offer from the Western Australian government over a failed legal battle with Perth's maverick 'Spud King', despite it being less than half of what they are owed.

Andrew Forrest has successfully fended off a company that wanted to mine sand at his family’s pastoral property in the Pilbara, but has lost an appeal against a uranium explorer that plans to mine in the area.

Claremont-based Structural Monitoring Systems has inked an agreement with US airline Delta for the supply and use of its technology.

Decmil Group has been awarded a $13 million contract for work at BHP Billiton's South Flank iron ore project near Newman.

Earnings at supermarket giant Coles have fallen for the first time since its acquisition by Wesfarmers nine years ago, as its sales growth slowed further amid stiff competition.

Shares in Telstra have plunged to a five-year low as investors react to the telco giant's announcement it will reduce dividends as of the current financial year.

The Australian share market is trading higher after an initial opening plunge in the wake of a shock annoucement from Telstra that the telco giant will cut its future dividends.

Dumped boss to fight big claimThe former chief executive of one of Australia’s biggest Aboriginal corporations, who is accused of a $350,000 rip-off from his former emp

The outperforming Australian dollar has soared almost one US cent as its counterpart has fallen after US president Donald Trump disbanded two business advisory councils and following Federal Reserve committee minutes.

Oil prices have fallen more than one per cent even though US crude stockpiles declined by the most in a year, as data suggesting domestic production was edging higher stoked worries about the global crude glut.

Gold has risen about one per cent, shaking off two days of losses, as the dollar edged lower after the release of the minutes from Federal Reserve's July meeting at which policymakers voted unanimously to keep US interest rates unchanged.

Western Australia recorded its lowest level of wages growth in the year to June since at least 1999, at 1.4 per cent, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

The Australian share market has closed higher on a day of mixed company earnings results, with market heavyweights Commonwealth Bank and Suncorp down as they traded ex-dividend.

Cottesloe-Claremont has been named the country’s fastest growing area for apartments, despite Western Australia continuing to have one of the lowest shares of medium-density housing approvals of all the states, according to a Bankwest report released today.