Corporate Australia wants Canberra to deliver wider tax cuts for business and boost "good" spending in the federal budget next week, even as it urges the politicians to agree on a quicker path to a budget surplus.
Oil prices have plunged to five-month lows amid record trading volume in Brent crude, as OPEC and other producers appeared to rule out deeper supply cuts to reduce the world's persistent glut of crude.
Gold prices have fallen to the lowest in more than six weeks, on expectations of further US interest rate increases this year and receding political uncertainty in Europe.
Following on from its two contract wins announced in the previous edition of Business News, Maintenance and Construction Services Australia has been awarded the $2.3 million contract for c
Qantas has forecast a better-than-expected annual underlying pre-tax profit of between $1.35 billion and $1.4 billion, the second largest in its history, on the back of the strength of its domestic operations.
The cost of developing land needs to be reduced to properly address housing affordability, according to the new national chief executive of the Master Builders Association.
The global company that runs many of WA’s mine camps believes a technology platform developed with local ICT firm Velrada provides a blueprint for its international operations.
A former New Zealand bureaucrat has been appointed to lead a three-person panel that will conduct a review into the state’s public service, where Premier Mark McGowan is targeting $750 million in savings.
Merchandise exports from Western Australia were up 35.4 per cent in March compared with that same month in 2016, as a clear trend emerges of improving trade figures for the state.
Heron Resources has awarded CIMIC Group subsidiary Sedgman a $107 million engineering, procurement and construction contract for a processing facility at its Woodlawn zinc-copper project south of Sydney.
National Australia Bank has lifted first-half profit to $3.29 billion while putting more money aside for soured loans amid an impending oversupply of east coast apartments.
Mining giant Rio Tinto expects further growth in Asia on the back of China's One Belt One Road initiative, which is expected to result in heavy infrastructure investments in the region.
The Australian share market has opened lower for a third straight session, hurt by mining and financial stocks, with National Australia Bank reporting interim results broadly in-line with market ex
Budget to quell Labor’s MediscareThe four-year freeze on Medicare rebates will finally lift this July for some GP visits, and extend to specialists and
Oil prices have settled slightly higher after a choppy trading session as the market digested US government data showing that while there were signs a crude glut may be receding, inventories remained large with petrol demand weak.
Gold has fallen to a one-month low as the US dollar firmed, after the US Federal Reserve kept interest rates unchanged as expected and the market reduced expectations of a surprise win by France's far-right presidential candidate.
Western Australia's building regulator is investigating claims of defective firewalls at the new Perth Children's Hospital, as the construction union warns that replacing them could take many months.
Only three months after being named chief executive of iCollege, former Perth Wildcats owner Andrew Vlahov has resigned from the company, which also announced the acquisition of a UK-based child care training provider.
Family-owned German shipbuilder Lürssen will be setting up shop in the Australian Marine Complex through a partnership with Civmec and government-owned ASC.
South Australian charter airline Rossair Charter Services is making a push into Western Australia, as it refines operations following the recent acquisition of Perth-based Ad Astral Aviation.
