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The share market has posted a second straight day of sharp falls on fears Britain will leave the European Union.

Red Mountain Mining says it will cost $22 million to bring its flagship Batangas gold project in the Philippines into production.

Alan Bishop has spent 40 years building insurance broker EBM into a national player and worked through many business cycles over that time, but arguably none as tough as the current conditions in Western Australia.

IMX Resources chief executive Phil Hoskins has been replaced by former Focus Minerals boss Campbell Baird, while the company plans to restructure and rebrand itself under a new name.

Opposition leader Bill Shorten says a Labor government would review the NBN Company board in the wake of questions about the impartiality of its chairman.

Perth-based telecommunications company Norwood Systems has tapped investors for a $5 million capital raising to fund ongoing development of its products.

Mining contractor Barminco has won a $275 million contract to provide its services to the Northern Star Resources-majority owned Kundana gold mines in the Goldfields.

Virgin Australia plans to raise $852 million and sweep the broom through its operations by cutting its aircraft fleet and workforce.

The Australian share market has opened lower after Wall Street dropped for a fourth straight session.

Rio Tinto will purchase a total $1.747 billion of 2018 capital notes under its debt reduction plan.

The Australian dollar is likely to slide further as Brexit fears keep global markets in risk-averse mode.

Gold hit its highest in almost six weeks on Tuesday, rising on worries about a potential British exit from the European Union and expectations the U.S. Federal Reserve will not raise interest rates at its June meeting.

Wall Street has dropped for a fourth straight session as central bank policymakers weighed the health of the US economy and investors worried about an upcoming vote in Britain on whether to leave the European Union.

Brexit fears rattle ASXMounting support for Britain to leave the European Union has struck financial markets around the world, including Australia, where shares were sold

It’s easy to assume the Western Australian Industrial Relations Commission’s recent decision to raise the minimum wage by 1.9 per cent is good news for low-paid workers.

Former Woodside Petroleum and Beach Energy executive Rob Cole has been appointed chair of the Southern Ports Authority.

Iron ore miner Mineral Resources has added another string to its bow, taking a 19.3 per cent stake in domestic gas supplier Empire Oil & Gas, a week after the company increased its slice of the Mt Marion lithium project.

The Australian share market has fallen nearly 2 per cent to a seven-week low, wiping out $27 billion in value, amid concerns about US interest rates and the Brexit vote.

Tipping future residential property prices is tricky, but in Western Australia there is a potential technique that is so obvious it’s a surprise no-one has used it before – linking property to the state’s biggest industry, resources.

More than 200 junior mining and exploration companies would fail to meet new listing requirements the Australian Securities Exchange plans to introduce later this year, a study has found.

Perth-based gold stocks Blackham Resources and Red 5 are a step closer to commencing major new developments after completing feasibility studies and receiving final approvals.

IMX Resources spin-off Graphex Mining has enjoyed a strong ASX debut, with its shares trading 80 per cent higher than its initial public offer raising price.

St John Ambulance WA will open a new training facility in the CBD, after signing a three-year lease on a Milligan Street property.

Indian businessman Pankaj Oswal misappropriated more than $150 million in company funds for his Perth homes, a vegetarian restaurant chain, luxury cars and planes, a court has heard.

Shares in marine services business MMA Offshore were lower after the company warned of a profit reduction and no reprieve in the coming financial year.

The Australian share market has opened lower in the wake of falls on Wall Street and in Europe overnight.

Wall Street has stumbled for a third straight session as tech stalwarts Microsoft and Apple dragged on indexes and investors braced for major economic and political events in the United States and Europe.

Gold rose for the fourth straight session and hit its highest since mid-May on Monday, driven by rising investor risk aversion before central bank meetings this week and Britain's June 23 vote on whether to leave the European Union.

World stock markets have fallen, while the safe-haven yen firmed amid concerns that Britain may be on the verge of voting to leave the European Union in a referendum that is two weeks away.

The Australian dollar is lower with markets in a risk averse mood.

Labor, Libs leave $60b health holeBoth sides of politics now face a hospital funding ‘‘black hole’’ of more than $50 billion – or will have to revisit lifting the goods an

It's the end of the beginning for what had been Western Australia’s only remaining major iron ore project under construction, Citic Pacific’s Sino Iron, according to chief executive Chen Zeng, as the final two of six magnetite ore processing lines enter production.