Tax breaks for risk-taking businesses and a boost in science spending lie at the heart of a four-year $1.1 billion innovation package designed to drive an "ideas boom" in Australia.
Motor vehicles sales in Western Australia for the year to November are down 8.5 per cent on the same period last year, with sports utility vehicles the only part of the market that held up.
Farmers in Pemberton are hoping to add a new ingredient to the South West town’s successful business recipe, pinning their hopes on growing the market for finger limes.
Australian shares have opened more than one per cent higher after US jobs data at the end of last week gave further support to the idea of a Federal Reserve rate hike this month.
Gold has risen more than two per cent to its highest in nearly three weeks after a US non-farm payrolls report, seen as likely to pave the way for the US Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this month, failed to aid the US dollar's ascent.
CBH Group has cut its estimate of Western Australia’s grain harvest for the second time in five weeks, with the farmers’ cooperative now tipping it will handle 12.5 million tonnes in the current se
Rapidly growing online booking company HealthEngine has gained backing from newly established private equity group Go Capital and carsales.com.au founder Greg Roebuck in its latest $5 million capit
Approval has been granted for the first in a series of state government asset sales, with legislation to sell Market City passing parliament after a debate that went until almost dawn.
A recent office leasing deal at Exchange Tower has illustrated the lengths to which landlords are going to attract tenants, as vacancies continue to rise across the CBD.
Less than six months after opening its first Perth store at Cloisters Arcade, Vietnamese street food franchise Rolld has opened another, with a third store planned to open next week that will usher in a new flagship concept for the national chain.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is understood to be investigating Synergy following predatory pricing complaints from several players in the state’s electricity market.
Mineral sands producer MZI Resources has announced a letter of intent for a trial shipment to a Chinese chloride pigment producer, the day after it hit nameplate capacity at its Keysbrook facility.
Lifeline WA, HeartKids and Manna Inc are among 10 Western Australian not for profits set to receive more than $10,000 each from the Bankwest Foundation to help them design and develop social media strategies.
Perth-based technology company Peppermint Innovation is planning to take its mobile payments technology across South-East Asia after listing on the ASX through a reverse takeover of Chrysalis Resources completed today.
Western Australians won’t get their long-awaited access to Elizabeth Quay until the end of January, with the state government today confirming the project won’t be finished in time for Christmas.
A third-party arbitrator will be called in to settle a dispute between Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill Holdings and its key construction contractor, Samsung C&T.
Subsidiaries of listed companies Ausdrill and RCR Tomlinson have been ordered to pay more than $450,000 in fines and court costs over two workplace deaths five years ago.
The inclusion of the family home in means testing for the age pension would be one of a number of ways to pare back a recent expansion of middle and upper class welfare, according to two recent reports.
Fremantle Dockers coach Ross Lyon says it's an opportune time for Matthew Pavlich to hand over the captaincy, with Nat Fyfe and David Mundy the leading contenders to replace him at the AFL club.
Programmed Maintenance Services is among five companies to be added to the S&P/ASX200 in changes to the market indices set to occur after market close on December 18.
The Australian share market has opened more than 1.5 per cent lower following big falls overseas in reaction to the European Central Bank's latest policy easing measures.
US and European stocks have closed down sharply and the euro enjoyed its biggest one-day percentage rise in well over six years as investors reacted to the European Central Bank's latest policy easing measures.
