Carrie Burns

Independent schools across the state are benefiting from the experience some of Perth’s most prominent business leaders have brought to their boards, providing greater diversity and structure to the decision-making process.

Growth in Perth’s suburbs has unveiled opportunities for the education sector, with new private and public schools set to fill gaps in the market.

Shares in Perth-based global education provider Navitas closed almost 10 per cent lower today, following news of a 13.2 per cent fall in half-year profits to $31.3 million, despite a gain in revenue.

Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Andrew Harding hit the streets this morning in a fluoro vest and holding an armful of copies of The Big Issue, joining a regular vendor to sell the magazine on St Georges Terrace as part of a week-long national event.

Australia’s only state-based not-for-profit indigenous tourism association is rolling out its new strategy and calling for support from local WA business.

The annual youth Friendship Games will go ahead in Perth this week, despite organisers securing only half the targeted number of participants.

Christmas appeals have received a mixed response in their calls for donations, however all charities report a significant increase in requests for their services.

A device targeted at the OH&S market is being taken up by mining, transport and storage industries to cut costs associated with workplace injuries.

Peninsula Energy has secured $69.4 million in fully underwritten institutional funding for its Lance projects in Wyoming, enabling the company to transition to a uranium producer in 2015.