Matt Mckenzie

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The public sector union is claiming it has broken the state’s wages policy on the back of a new enterprise agreement offer that includes a range of new entitlements such as an extra holiday, superannuation during unpaid parental leave, and cultural leave for Aboriginal employees.

Several businesses in the Fremantle area are enabling payment with bitcoin and alternative online currencies.

Machine learning is being used to develop a range of medical research advancements in WA, with diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder one example.

Shipbuilder Austal has turned two major challenges – a cyber attack and the loss of a big naval contract – into positives, chief executive David Singleton told a Business News Success & Leadership breakfast today.

Western Power chief executive Guy Chalkley has been appointed to the network operator’s board, while Kathryn Barrie will wear two hats as a director of the business and continuing in a senior role at the Public Utilities Office.

An emotional and complicated dispute has broken out among current and former committee members of Subcontractors WA, after former chairperson Louise Stewart resigned in February to contest the seat of Curtin at the recent federal election.

In an election that defied pollsters, it was the old-fashioned tally room at Miss Maud that called the result correctly.

Further downward pressure on gas prices is likely with the owners of the state’s major transmission pipeline planning a big cut in costs.