Outspoken entrepreneur Dick Smith has taken another swipe at media mogul Rupert Murdoch, urging him to hold a major public interview while he is in the country about his "vision for Australia".
Canadian miner B2Gold has swooped on Perth-based CGA Mining, offering the equivalent of $C3.18 ($3.13) per share in an all-scrip takeover bid worth around $C1.1 billion ($1.08 billion).
Fortescue Metals Group has settled a long-running dispute with Leucadia National Corporation, agreeing to terms to repay $US715 million in unsecured loan notes.
Professor Ross Garnaut's claim that living standards will fall in tandem with commodity prices, unless there's a lift in productivity, has been backed by a senior economist.
Focus Minerals' is aiming to expand output to more 500,000 ounces of gold per year after one of China's top gold producers, Shandong Mining, agreed to take a 51 per cent stake in the Perth-based mi
Shares in Billabong have dived after the troubled surfwear retailer said one of two private equity firms interested in taking over the group had withdrawn its offer.
Cautious consumers are keeping their wallets firmly shut and business needs to adapt to this new-found frugality, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia says.
US stocks scored small gains on Wednesday as investors weighed encouraging housing data and falling crude oil prices that stoked hopes for more growth in the tepid economy.
The Australian dollar is slightly higher after Japan's central bank announced it would extend its stimulus program for the world's third largest economy.
Privately-owned firms Thistle Fabrication and Primero Group, as well as Geraldton's Lenane Holdings, have won construction contracts for the Empire Oil & Gas-led Red Gully processing facility n
An energy conference in Darwin has heard conflicting accounts of whether Australia's tax system deters companies seeking to invest in Australian resources projects.
The mining industry has welcomed the strengthening of environmental conditions for the state's proposed first uranium mine after an independent review of appeals.
Energy giant ConocoPhillips coud become the second company, after Japan's Inpex, to transport gas from a field off the Western Australian coast to an LNG processing plant at Darwin.
Australia's largest ocean-grown barramundi producer has launched a $4.5 million share offer to fund the expansion of its fish farm at Cone Bay, north east of Broome.
Liberal Party MPs who have wavered in their support for wheat export deregulation are defying the party's free-market principles and the robust policy-making process employed on this issue.
The Bibbulmun Track Foundation will run its 11th team-building event in late October and is looking for a not-for-profit organisation to take part, free of charge.
Fremantle-based KULCHA Multicultural Arts of Western Australia is on a mission to use the arts as a catalyst to make WA more culturally inclusive as skilled migration to the state grows and its cul
