Oil and gas producer Woodside Petroleum achieved a 3 per cent lift in production in calendar 2016, although the company expects output to fall by up to 12 per cent in the year ahead.
BHP Billiton has reached a near $1 billion deal with Brazil's federal prosecutor to settle a civil claim over the fatal disaster at its Samarco joint venture.
Education services provider Navitas has secured its eighth partner in North America following today's announcement that it has signed an agreement with the University of Idaho.
The Australian share market gave away most of its early gains but still finished slightly higher as weakness from most of the big banks countered support from an upbeat outlook on the US economy and a profit upgrade from market heavyweight CSL.
Gold miner Red 5 will be forced to put its Siana operations on temporary standby by the end of the month after running into regulatory delays for construction of new infrastructure.
Local concrete construction business Whittens has won a $15 million contract with a joint venture comprising Monadelphous Group and ZEM Energy for work at the Sapphire wind farm in New South Wales.
The state's unemployment rate dropped 0.3 percentage points in December to 6.6 per cent as the number of women in the labour force eased slightly, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data.
Mike Baird has made a shock announcement this morning, saying he will immediately resign both as premier of NSW and from politics altogether, before revealing a number of serious family health issues.
Western Australian police say they have arrested 30 people this morning for disrupting land clearing works as bulldozers moved in on the controversial Roe 8 highway extension project.
Diversified miner South32 has posted lower first-half production in several of its commodities but says it remains on track to achieve full-year guidance for the majority of its operations.
The Australian share market has jumped with investors optimistic after US Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen's said the US economy was strengthening and interest rates were likely to rise.
Gold retreated on Wednesday from the previous day's eight-week high as data showing the biggest pick-up in U.S. consumer prices in 2-1/2 years lifted the dollar and US Treasury yields.
Oil prices fell on Wednesday to their lowest in a week, on a strong dollar and expectations that US producers would boost output even as OPEC's output fell from a record high.
Perth-based mining technology firm MiPlan has been bought by US company Hexagon Mining, six years after it was established by Robert and Louise Daw with backing from three local venture capital investors.
The state government has received a proposal for a $1.85 billion World Trade Centre in the Perth CBD from a Middle Eastern-backed private group that includes former Perth Airport manager Neil Kidd.
Mineral Resources managing director Chris Ellison has sold down a small portion of his stake in the diversified Perth business, netting $21.6 million from the transaction.
A Perth recycling company has been handed an $80,000 fine for its part in a workplace accident in which a teenager's fingers were amputated by a tyre shredder.
Pilbara Minerals has awarded a $148 million contract to RCR Tomlinson for the engineering, procurement and construction of processing facilities at its Pilgangoora lithium project south of Port Hedland.
Consumers are optimistic about their future finances, but they're still worried about the contraction of the economy reported last month, Westpac says.
Turnbull government ministers Greg Hunt and Arthur Sinodinos have been given senior portfolios in a reshuffle announced today, while Perth MP Ken Wyatt has made hstory by being named the first indigenous Australian appointed to a federal ministry.
Alcoa deal angers big power usersLarge electricity users have accused AGL Energy of hitting them with 50 to 100 per cent electricity price increases wh
Gold jumped more than 1 per cent to an eight-week high on Tuesday as stocks and the dollar fell after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the greenback was "too strong" and British Prime Minister Theresa May promised a parliamentary vote on Brexit.
