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THE Pilbara Cities initiative is providing property development firms with opportunities to expand beyond their normal scope of operations, according to a prominent Western Australian developer.

A unique Western Australian arts organisation, Disability in the Arts, Disadvantage in the Arts (DADAA), has this week launched a new website to share its knowledge base with others operating in the sector.

If confidence plays a role in business success, Pink Zulu's Doulene Walker has the first ingredient down pat. Russell Quinn reports.

As the overthrow of Kevin Rudd shows, modern politics is all about winning, and then consolidating, power.

The Gillard government and the mining industry will be relieved the issue has been settled before this year's federal election.

Let's not forget the planned mineral resource rent tax is, above all, a big new tax on one of WA's fastest growing and most dynamic industries.

The new mining tax puts most of its chips on China's growth continuing.

Most in business acknowledge the need for more women on boards and in senior management.

Defence Minister John Faulkner has become the second senior minister in the Australian government to annouce plans to step down from his current role after the upcoming federal election.

Investors in new market entrant Aphrodite Gold have suffered a paper loss, after the miner finished below its issue price on its first day of trading.

The proposed merger of Aurox Resources and Atlas Iron moved a step closer this week with an Independent Expert deeming the tran

The State Government-owned jetty at the port of Wyndham will be upgraded as part of a $10 million expansion and enhancement project.

If bets were placed on the chances of pigs flying over Perth, or a former president of the Australian Council of Trade Unions criticising employers for paying their workers high wages, it's a fair chance that the flying pigs would get shorter odds.

The West Coast Rock Lobster Fishery will operate under a quota system when the season begins in mid-November, the state government announced today.

Australian mining executive John Carr-Gregg, tragically killed in a plane crash in West Africa, has been remembered as a gentleman and family man at a memorial service in Sydney.

International law firm Allen & Overy has secured local energy and resources lawyer, Angus Jones from leading Australian outfit Allens Arthur Robinson enhancing A&O's Perth-based energy group.

Agricultural investment group AACL will no longer require financial support from CBH Grain after securing an important funding and marketing deal worth almost $30 million with Glencore Grain for the 2010-11 season.

Shares in building products, sugar and energy group CSR Ltd rose strongly on Monday after the company said it had found a buyer for its sugar and renewable energy business for $1.75 billion.

The state government's $300 million Perth Waterfront project has moved a step closer to reality following Cabinet's consideration of the business case, supporting critical decisions enabling the project's progression.

Western Australia's Premier Colin Barnett has retained his popularity, emerging streets ahead of Labor Opposition Leader Eric Ripper as preferred leader, the latest Newspoll shows.

The decline in the number of exhibitors taking part in the third annual Good Food & Wine Show at the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre has done nothing to dampen the enthusiasm being shown by local foodies in attendance on the event's first day.

The state government has reached an agreement with the Ngarluma Aboriginal Corporation allowing it to make land available for development in Karratha.

WA-based West African gold explorer Gryphon Minerals has announced a friendly all-scrip takeover bid for fellow West African gold player Shield Mining.

New prime minister Julia Gillard needs to show her hand on key policy issues ahead of the election.

Australia's new PM, like all Western leaders, faces a rocky road ahead.

A new prime minister presents miners with a final chance to control their destiny when it comes to tax.

Julia Gillard has plenty of work to do to ensure victory at the next federal election.

CONSTRUCTION contractors John Holland and Broad Construction are among the winners from the surge in government and mining company spending on infrastructure in regional Western Australia.

Uncertainty has clouded the M&A market in recent months, putting a lot of work on hold.

PATERSONS Securities and Macquarie Capital Advisers have topped WA Business News' survey of Western Australian capital raisings, with each firm involved in transactions worth just over $1 billion.

THE dampening effect of post-crash market volatility on conventional merger and acquisition activity has left many playmakers looking to backdoor opportunities for corporate action.

IT is not often that a move by one person can shake up a marketplace but the defection earlier this year of Michael Ashforth to Macquarie Capital from Gresham has had a big impact.