Treasurer Wayne Swan is encouraging Australian businesses to get "ahead of the curve" and push toward greater use of the Chinese renminbi (RMB) currency in their trade dealings.
Western Australia's business leaders are concerned about productivity but less anxious about growth than their eastern-states counterparts, a directors survey has revealed.
Woodside Petroleum has held out the hope of proceeding with an alternative gas project in the Kimberley after spiralling costs forced it to terminate plans for a gas processing plant at James Price
Alkane Resources says its Dubbo zirconia project is financially and technically robust, after completing a definitive feasibility study that put a $996 million price tag on the development.
Mining billionaire Andrew Forrest has shown how you do philanthropy at the big end of town: put a million bucks on the table and challenge everyone in the room to match it.
The Australian share market has bounced back to close above the key 5,000 point mark for the first time in a month amid hopes that local interest rates will fall.
Former police minister Rob Johnson has attacked Premier Colin Barnett as a "dictator" after he was overlooked for the role of speaker of the legislative assembly.
Perkins Builders has announced a series of new contract wins highlighting its versatility in construction, with the projects including a new shopping centre, a hardware store, swimming pools and a
Four and a half years ago, when Colin Barnett became premier of Western Australia, he surprised a few people by being quite chummy with Australia's newly elected prime minister, Kevin Rudd.
Australia is lagging the world's best economies when it comes to productivity and needs a new plan to stop it falling further behind, BHP Billiton's chairman says.
Engineering and construction contractor Decmil Group will construct port and rail facilities for Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill iron ore mine in the Pilbara, under a $71 million contract announced today.
THE combination of healthy, sports-based pursuits and worthy causes has proved to be a winning formula for the community sector and not for profits in terms of publicity and fund raising.
The public's enthusiasm for the intimate and sophisticated experience offered by the city's small bars shows no sign of slowing, nearly six years after liquor licence reform was legislated in Weste
Gold slumped Wednesday in the largest decline since November as details from the US Federal Reserve's latest policy meeting showed more discussion on throttling back on the central bank's easy-mone
Get ready for some belt tightening in the next state budget. The fact that it will be introduced in August, three months later than usual, will provide only temporary respite, with all the signs suggesting there won't be much extra money being thrown around.
