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SPECIAL REPORT: The domgas market is going through a period of structural change, but history has lessons for those businesses that know where to look.

The competition watchdog has dealt a blow to the taxi industry's attempt to take on ride sharing service Uber with a new smartphone booking app, saying it could threaten smaller competitors Ingogo and Gocatch.

SPECIAL REPORT: As the energy construction boom winds down, policy makers must get the settings right to prepare for future investment, while energy players mull the best way to allocate scarce capital.

Australian shares have got off to a weak start as investors count profits after recording the market's best week in nearly four years.

PM explores radical road, rail funding

Oil has edged up in New York and slipped in London as traders book profits from the week's rally fuelled by hopes for oversupply relief from lower US crude production.

The Australian dollar hit a seven week high on expectations the US Federal Reserve will delay raising its interest rate.

Gold rose to a seven-week high after minutes from the Federal Reserve's last policy meeting showed the US central bank was in no hurry to raise interest rates.

Like a lot of WA’s mineral and land resources, the easy developments of LNG may be behind us; but that doesn’t mean we should simply live off the past.

The new owner of Perth’s professional women’s basketball team has set the agenda for gender equality in professional sports.

Angie Paskevicius, the chief executive of non-for-profit drug and alcohol support service Holyoake, has been named the 2015 Telstra Western Australia business woman of the year.

Malindo Air has announced plans to launch daily flights to Kuala Lumpur, beginning in mid-November.

Global law firm Herbert Smith Freehills has selected its Perth office to trial an ‘insourcing’ centre that will recruit up to 30 graduates to work in tandem with a similar centre in Dublin.

Junior explorer MRL Corporation has received firm commitments for a $4 million capital raising to fund development of mine shafts at its graphite tenements in Sri Lanka.

The share market has capped off its best week in almost four years as strength in the financial and resources sectors drove a fifth straight day of gains.

Employment growth is expected to have slowed in September after enjoying several months of strong gains.

The winner of a new innovation program has combined gaming technology with its traditional focus on process control data to create a product that has attracted keen interest from some of the state’s biggest companies.

Commercial real estate agency Metier has scored another plum government job, this time to handle retail leasing for the Metropolitan Redevelopment Authority at Midland’s Railway Workshops.

Perth's falling median house price may be causing doom and gloom for property owners, but two top agents say current market conditions represent a perfect time for potential buyers either to get a foothold on the property market or upgrade their position.

The director of three Perth-based website development and digital marketing companies has been convicted in the District Court of using his position dishonestly to gain an advantage.

The median salary paid to chief executives at Australian mining companies fell by 12 per cent over the past two years, and is set to decline further after recent cost-cutting moves by the likes of BC Iron, Sundance Resources, Paladin Energy and Poseidon Nickel.

One of Perth’s premier charities is selling properties in Osborne Park and Belmont to fund a new development in Canning Vale, to cope with what it says is an alarming increase in demand for its services.

BGD Corporation is the latest Perth-based company to initiate a backdoor listing, announcing today that it intends to establish a primary healthcare business by purchasing assets held by Modern Medical.

A digital technology communications agency with a social impact focus, DrawHistory is a startup based at the new BloomLab co-working space in Crawley.

Telstra has been ordered to cut the price it charges other telcos to access its copper wire network, raising the prospect of lower phone and internet bills for consumers.

The Australian share market has opened more than one per cent higher following a strong lead from Wall Street and the release of the US Federal Reserve's September policy meeting minutes.

Citic in new billion-dollar mine dispute

The Australian dollar is firmer against the greenback, which sagged after US Federal Reserve policymakers appeared unsettled by signs of a global economic slowdown.

US stocks have risen after Federal Reserve meeting minutes lifted confidence the US central bank would not move quickly to hike interest rates.

Gold prices have turned lower after Federal Reserve meeting minutes showed its was unsettled by signs of a global economic slowdown.

Colin Barnett has already got into Malcolm Turnbull’s ear about public transport infrastructure funding.

The recently appointed boss of BHP Billiton’s Nickel West division has presented a rare positive message for the unloved business, saying there was “nervous excitement” after a series of internal changes.