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Gavin Taylor has been appointed managing director of Ticketmaster, two months after departing as chief executive of WA Football Commission.

National cyber security company CyberCX is planning further growth in Western Australia after announcing two acquisitions from Perth-based Vortiv.

A crew member from the Al Messilah livestock ship has been hospitalised in Western Australia as the state recorded eight new COVID-19 cases.

Ben Wyatt's fourth budget has set the scene for a push towards re-election.

A Perth business developing autonomous vehicles for subsea surveying has raised £10 million via a spin-off, while Poynton Stavrianou are advising on a further potential deal.

Resolute Mining has reported slow gold production during the September quarter, less than a week after John Welborn's departure.

Western Australia's parliament has cleared the way for industrial manslaughter laws which will enforce a maximum penalty of 20 years' imprisonment for workplace deaths.

Construction and building payment platform ProjectPay has received a 100,000-pound grant to trial its payment system on a 20 million-pound project in London.

A lower oil price has cut Woodside Petroleum's revenue by about 40 per cent, but the company is studying to lift planned capacity of its Scarborough LNG project.

Company directors in Western Australia have become increasingly positive over the past six months in marked contrast to their counterparts in other states.

Austal has strongly denied allegations of unethical behaviour after reports emerged the Australian Border Force had funnelled $39 million to the ASX-listed shipbuilder.

Crown Resorts has apologised to shareholders for governance and risk management failures unearthed by a NSW inquiry, while an investor revolt prompted a director to resign.

COVID-19 has changed the way we move around, but are those behaviours likely to persist? Business News investigates in part four of our WFH series.

States unite to back WA hard border.

The national broadcaster is again calling on the federal government to extend special funds for journalism or risk putting more jobs on the chopping block.

Australia's share market finished marginally higher after another sign of a slowing economy and mixed messages on US economic stimulus.

More than 1,600 people have signed up within 48 hours to join a class action against the state government over the theft of wages from Indigenous workers.

WA authorities have begun a deep clean of the coronavirus-infected Al Messilah livestock ship, while crew aboard another vessel have returned negative tests.

Fortescue Metals Group has contracted Veris subsidiary Aqura Technologies to supply telecommunications at the Iron Bridge project in the Pilbara.

Gascoyne Resources has relisted on the ASX, following a $125 million recapitalisation that helped the embattled goldminer repay its creditors and continue mining operations.

There's no one-size-fits-all solution to ensure youngsters have the right mix of screen and non-screen time.

With the question of when international students will return to Australia still up in the air, ECU is preparing for a return to normal.

The grain industry is sharpening its strategy with new markets, new products and a focus on supply chain costs.

Expansion plans are in the works for some of WA's biggest exporters, but commodity prices and projects face uncertainty.

The recent buoyancy of consumer confidence has yet to be reflected in retail spending, which is down 1.5 per cent in September.

Artists are still waiting for support from the Morrison government's $250 million package, with most of it unspent.

Russian miner Nordgold has continued its fight for Perth-based Cardinal Resources, having matched an offer to buy the gold explorer for $1 per share.

Perth's residential vacancy rate continued to decline over September to 0.96 per cent – only the third time in 40 years it has fallen below 1 per cent.

Perth-based Macmahon Holdings has been named the preferred contractor to provide equipment hire and maintenance services at a coalmine in Queensland.

UWA has revealed it will reduce its executive team as part of an effort to seek $70 million in savings.

Netflix's growth in the third quarter cooled considerably after its blockbuster COVID-fueled bump in the first half of 2020.

South Australian-based DiMauro Group has appointed Colliers International to manage the Armadale Shopping City, following the settlement of the group's acquisition this week.