The banking regulator has capped interest-only mortgage lending and is prepared to take more action to address growing price and debt risks in the Australian housing market.
CBH Group chief executive Andrew Crane is stepping down from the role after eight years at the helm of Australia's largest grain exporter, with the group to immediately begin a search for his successor.
The state’s premier screen industry event, the WA Screen Awards, has been postponed this year due to the uncertainty of future funding arrangements surrounding its organiser, the Film & Television Institute WA.
From staging performances in his backyard as a young child to working with Perth’s top talent in numerous Black Swan State Theatre Company productions, freelance ‘theatre maker’ and 2017 40under40 winner Adam Mitchell has built a successful career in the arts.
The competition watchdog is concerned that the proposed takeover of Bibra Lake-based wheat and barley seed breeder InterGrain by Australian Grain Technologies could substantially lessen competition in the barley seeds sector.
Former BHP Billiton executive Julius Matthys has been named interim chief executive of Quintis, after Frank Wilson resigned on Tuesday to plot a takeover of the Indian sandalwood producer.
Fair Work row rocks leave caseA landmark Fair Work Commission case for establishing a new legal right for workers to 10 days’ paid domestic violence le
Oil prices have jumped for a third day, lifting to their highest in three weeks after Kuwait backed an extension of OPEC production cuts to reduce a global glut.
Gold has dipped as the US dollar has strengthened, but losses were capped by continuing economic uncertainty around Britain's departure from the European Union and approaching French elections.
Mines and Petroleum Minister Bill Johnston says the McGowan government will keep a close check on usage of the industry’s mine rehabilitation fund to ensure unscrupulous operators don’t shift costs onto honest players, while also confirming the existing state exploration incentive scheme will continue operation.
Susan Rooney will join the St Vincent de Paul Society WA in May as the organisation’s new chief executive, having spent the past 15 years leading the Cancer Council WA.
A third straight day of gains is taking the All Ordinaries index closer to a nine year high of 6,000 points, as investors continue to react to the failure of US President Donald Trump's healthcare reforms.
Nickel miner Western Areas will progress plans to develop a new deposit at its mothballed Cosmos project, after today revealing a $210 million capex to bring the mine into production.
The number of people living in regional Western Australia fell last year for the first time in at least a decade, with mining towns such as Leinster, Meekatharra, Kambalda and Coolgardie driving the decline, new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows.
Clive Palmer's Mineralogy has again failed in its long-running court battle with its estranged Chinese joint-venture partner over the Cape Preston port in the Pilbara.
Premier Mark McGowan has officially marked the beginning of the reversal process for the $440 million Roe 8 highway extension project, with a renegotiation process between Main Roads and the project’s proponents set to begin.
There may have been little growth in new home sales last month Australia wide, but Western Australia helped keep the national figures in positive territory, with an industry figure foreshadowing a bottoming-out in the state over the year.
Perth businessman David Flanagan has taken on a larger role at aspiring graphite miner Battery Minerals, that of executive chairman, as part of a management restructure ahead of the company’s planned transition to the production phase.
Water is being pumped out of a disused iron ore mine on a Western Australian island after pit walls slumped, sparking fears it could collapse and contaminate the ocean on the other side.
Australian stocks have edged higher in early trade on the back of a mixed finish in Wall Street, where energy stocks rose, and after rallying to a near two-year high in the previous session.
Don’t give up on tax cuts, business urgesAustralia’s top business leaders gathered in Canberra have implored the Turnbull government to keep fighting for its full compa
The Australian dollar is higher against its US counterpart despite the greenback finding support from promises of further Federal Reserve interest rate rises in 2017.
Oil prices are up more than 2 per cent as US crude inventories grew less than expected, supply disruptions continued in Libya and the OPEC-led output cut by producing countries looked likely to be extended.
Gold has edged up, hovering below Monday's one-month high as uncertainty about Brexit talks, French elections and US president Donald Trump's economic policies boosted safe-haven buying and offset a firmer US dollar.
The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia has revealed 10 Perth suburbs where properties are selling faster now than during the mining boom, with four of the top 10 in the western suburbs.
The share market is close to a two-year high after demand for the big four banks, energy producers and miners drove a second straight day of strong gains.
Investment plans for BHP Billiton’s South Flank project can proceed with greater certainty following the defeat of the Nationals WA's proposed iron ore levy hike at the ballot box earlier this month, according to the company’s asset president of WA iron ore, Edgar Basto.
