Senior public servants Stephen Wood, David Smith and Darren Foster are among the main winners from the state government’s plan to create 11 larger departments.
Five months after listing on the ASX, the founders of Leederville-based bicycle accessories maker Cycliq have stepped back from their executive roles as part of a leadership restructure.
A third student accommodation project has been proposed for Perth’s CBD, while a Hong Kong-based developer has been enlisted to build a residential, retail and entertainment complex as part of the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority’s latest efforts to get things moving at the Perth City Link.
Sandalwood producer Quintis has negotiated a second deferral of an option agreement that could see it having to pay nearly $34 million to buy back 400 hectares of plantations, as the company confirmed it was in advanced negotiations with a possible replacement for a key Chinese customer.
SPECIAL REPORT: West Perth-based junior Metalicity is developing a plan to take the Admiral Bay zinc deposit in the Canning Basin to production, two years after the project was bought from the collapsed Kagara Mining.
SPECIAL REPORT: The value of investment into WA gold projects is about four times as much as this time last year, while growth in spending on lithium has been even more substantial.
Junior explorler Azonto Petroleum has announced plans to farm-in to an oil and gas project in Canada through the acquisition of one of the project’s joint venture partners, which is owned by Perth executive Alan Stein.
MACA has won a $6 million contract to provide mining services to Northern Minerals’ Browns Range heavy rare earths pilot project, while an additional $4 million bulk earthworks contract is also due to be awarded to the Perth-based company.
Origin Energy has sold its under-development Darling Downs solar farm in Queensland to gas pipelines operator APA Group, but will buy all the electricity generated by the project until 2030.
OPINION: Bank bashing is one of Australia’s favourite sports, and while it is generally played when banks are behaving badly, there is a time when the banks become political footballs for playing well, which is what will probably happen next week – for 16 billion reasons.
Multiple public holidays in April are considered a likely contributer to a soft housing market for the month, with Perth house prices slipping into negative territory again amid a slowdown across the country.
The federal government won't guarantee Tasmania and South Australia will be no worse off under potential changes to the way GST revenue is carved up among the states.
‘Turning point for better times’Treasurer Scott Morrison says governments can build infrastructure projects more cheaply and effectively than the priva
Oil prices has settled higher on growing hope that OPEC might agree to extend production cuts long enough to reduce a global crude glut, but crude prices still posted a weekly decline.
Gold has closed higher as forecast-beating eurozone inflation data boosted the euro versus the US dollar, while global stock markets retreated from Wednesday's record highs on concerns about global trade.
Former company director Steve Noske has been sentenced today to 18 months' imprisonment and fined $20,000 after being found guilty early this month of insider trading in takeover target Westside Co
The Australian share market has eked out a tiny gain to close higher for a sixth straight session, despite a mixed performance in the heavyweight banking and mining sectors.
Mining services company Ausdrill has expanded its partnership with Hockey Australia, while AGL Energy has sponsored the West Coast Eagles as it seeks to lift its profile ahead of its planned entry to the Western Australian gas market.
In this Business News podcast, Dan Wilkie and Mark Beyer discuss big changes to the public service, property developers, opportunities in defence, a new Qantas service, and our annual review of mining projects.
The Town of Port Hedland has voted to support BHP Billiton’s ambition to ship out an extra 5 million tonnes of iron ore a year from the port, as the mining giant pushes for a licence to ship 290mtpa by the 2019 financial year.
PHOTO ESSAY: About six weeks after the last grapes have been picked from the vines in the Margaret River region another bountiful harvest begins – the olive harvest.
Four Western Australian medical research organisations are aiming to boost collaboration after moving into the Ralph and Patricia Sarich Neuroscience Research Institute in Nedlands, which was officially opened this week.
Cameron McLaren has always known he was funny, but it took him 24 years and stints in mining, security and delivering pizzas to realise he could make a living out of it.
The state government has cut the number of its departments from 41 to 25, with a fifth of jobs in the Senior Executive Service – Western Australia’s highest-paid bureaucrats – to go.
