Mark Beyer

Long-running efforts by Michael Fotios' investment company Investmet to revive Swan Gold Mining and related companies Stirling Resources and Redbank Copper have hit a major hurdle.

Supporters of the Oakajee Port & Rail project were insisting today the ambitious development was not dead, after its owner Mitsubishi cut spending and two thirds of its staff were abolished.

Uranium prices would need to be more than double their current level before a new mine becomes commercially viable, Paladin Energy declared today, as it announced major cost cutting measures.

Projects like Perth Arena and Elizabeth Quay dominate debate over the city's development but an innovative event held last weekend showcased a lot more.

WHEN mining and construction chief executives talk about workplace safety, many people struggle to stifle a yawn.

MATT Birney is a man with a new lease of life, just like the business he now runs.

AT first glance, all of Perth's major stockbrokers posted dismal results for the year to June 2012.

Whether it's tax policy in Canberra, energy policy in Perth or this week's hot topic, Asian engagement, we suffer from an increasingly wide disconnect between strategy and policy in key areas.

THREE major shopping centre expansion projects are set to proceed in Perth during the next year, following AMP Capital's move to full ownership of Garden City in Booragoon.

The state government is pressing ahead with plans for a gas pipeline to Albany, despite the project losing its largest potential customer and facing projected operating losses.

Indian company Lanco Infratech has released details of the planned expansion of its Griffin Coal business, in which it will invest an estimated $1.2 billion to underpin annual exports of 12 million

Engineering and construction contractor Forge Group has outlined a new divisional structure to support a planned diversification of its business into the process infrastructure and oil & gas se

The CCI and other business groups have given the state and federal governments a clear agenda for future policy reform.

The major accounting practices are leading the way in employment growth, which is up almost a third since 2010.

In what must rate as one of the more embarrassing oversights in WA business, engineering contractor Forge Group has admitted that it forgot about one of its directors when it prepared this year's n

The federal government is planning to raise an extra $10 billion from the business sector through new tax measures announced today in response to a sharp deterioration in its budget outlook.

Prominent Perth lawyer Leigh Warnick has announced plans to join the independent Bar, bringing to an end his 18-month foray with local firm Lavan Legal.

Automotive Holdings Group's remuneration report should be read by all company directors wanting to learn about best practice.

ASK the average Western Australian to name the state's major petroleum export and most would surely answer liquefied natural gas.

THE private sector is set to play an increasingly major role in providing traditional public infrastructure in Western Australia after the state government named a preferred consortium for the desi

THE WA Farmers Federation and grain handler CBH Group have welcomed a state government decision to keep open the ‘tier 3' rail lines in the Wheatbelt, but the farm lobby group has warned the fight

THE long-running debate over domestic gas reservations in Western Australia shows no sign of easing, with two Perth business leaders taking opposite sides last week.

The private sector is set to play a bigger role in providing traditional public infrastructure in Western Australia after the state government named a preferred consortium for the design, construct

Six weeks after announcing a dramatic slowdown in its growth plans, iron ore miner Fortescue Metals Group says its stalled Kings project could resume later this year and be in production as early a

The WA business sector has long called for a state infrastructure strategy; NSW has shown how it can be achieved.

FROM Subiaco in the west to Booragoon in the south and Innaloo in the north, more than a dozen mid-sized office developments are either under way or at an advanced stage of planning around Perth.

THE industrial land market in Western Australia has been characterised by consistently strong demand for most of the past decade, which has been good news for investors and developers who bought la

NICK Di Latte is under no illusions about where Diploma Group needs to focus its attention.

PERTH company Finbar has just 13 head office staff yet it is working on property developments worth nearly $1.5 billion.

MOST apartment developers have experienced a lean period since the GFC, with investors and banks both wary of putting money into new projects.

A wide range of commercial property developers, from multinationals to church groups, are set to drive future activity in the sector.

Four years on from the collapse of Lehman Bros, it is disturbing to realise the finance sector has reverted to tight credit conditions akin to the GFC.