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Telstra Health has announced it has won the bid for the $220 million, five-year government contract to deliver the National Cancer Screening Register.

This week, Reiwa members reported an increase in weekly sales to 579. The overall 3 per cent increase in sales over the week is attributed to a 7 per cent increase in sales for houses and 1 per cent for units.

The prospects of a Perth consumer newspaper monopoly are firming, with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission preparing to review a tie-up between The West Australian and The Sunday Times.

Parents won't be getting a schoolkids bonus after July, no matter who wins the federal election.

Two Perth-based resources companies are planning to switch sectors with the acquisition of cancer-based biotechnology firms, with one planning a backdoor listing and the other seeking support for an IPO.

Australia’s national LNG production capacity is nearing 50 million tonnes per annum, as Santos today brought Train 2 online at its Gladstone project.

The competition watchdog has further delayed its decision on the $9 billion takeover of rail and ports giant Asciano, after receiving complaints that the deal would reduce competition in the container logistics business.

The Australian share market has opened higher.

BHP looks to Venus to keep nickel project alive

Wall Street has risen robustly for a second straight session, helped by higher oil prices and investors becoming more comfortable with the prospect of an interest rate hike as early as next month.

Gold has fallen to a seven-week low after upbeat US home sales data in the previous session boosted expectations that the Federal Reserve will press ahead with interest rate rises in the near term.

Oil prices have climbed to just shy of $US50 ($A69.62) a barrel after a sharper-than-expected fall in crude inventories, lifting energy shares and world stock markets.

The Australian dollar has failed to jump on the US equities rally bandwagon as risk appetite firms, dipping below the 72 US cent mark.

THE sale of major public assets is looming as the only realistic option for a government of either stripe hoping to reclaim the state’s AAA credit rating and fund infrastructure needs in the decade

A balancing act between the science of plant breeding and consumer preferences has produced a new apple variety, developed in Manjimup, in WA’s South West.

The state’s residential building sector is in line for the biggest single-year decline in building activity in its history.

In the 1970s and 1980s WA was at the vanguard of battery research. Just a flicker of hope remains from the bright future that was offered. 

WHEN a truck drives over one of Mike Kenny’s units he knows all about it, or at least a customer of his North Coogee business does. The same goes for a car, a motorcycle or even a bike.

The share market has rallied as improved sentiment and a higher Aussie dollar delivered a boost for the big banking and resources stocks.

The state government has released details of its new digital innovation framework on the same day the auditor general slammed the state for letting its ICT strategy fall behind the rest of the country.

Where you set your personal ‘edges’ says a lot about the relationships you are capable of building.

German company K+S Group is planning to evaluate development of a $350 million salt project south-west of Onslow, six years after another salt project in the area was scrapped after facing widespread opposition.

Perth-based Decmil Group has won another contract to build a school in New Zealand.

A bale of hay that survived the recent fires near Myalup, north of Bunbury, has proved a valuable catalyst to efforts to restore the communities affected by the disaster.

The state government has cast a wide net in its bid to boost defence-related work in Western Australia, with 16 small businesses – ranging from a landscape gardener in Port Hedland to a signage contractor in Bellevue – sharing in the latest round of defence-specific grants.

David Jones has revamped its senior management team and created a new digital role to support the department store business’s continued overhaul.

Programmed Maintenance Services has returned an annual net loss as a result of lower demand for marine services following the steep drop in oil and gas prices.

Wesfarmers' full-year profit will be hit by write-downs and restructuring costs of about $2 billion related to its Target department stores and Queensland coal mine.

The Australian share market has opened more than one per cent higher.

Stockpiles of iron ore drive prices lower

Gold has fallen to its lowest in more than four weeks as hawkish comments from Federal Reserve officials in the previous session sent the US dollar to a two-month high against a currency basket.

The Australian dollar has recovered from a three-month low after the Reserve Bank hinted at further rate cuts.