HBF chief executive John Van Der Wielen said the costs of medical technology and an ageing population are driving up health insurance premiums, as debate intensifies over sector reforms and how to keep price rises in check.
Origin Energy has raised its full-year output guidance for its Australia Pacific LNG project, the biggest producer of liquefied natural gas in eastern Australia.
Westpac chief executive Brian Hartzer says he accepts "the need for accountability" after the country's second largest lender was accused of more than 23 million breaches of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing laws.
Oil fell about 2.0 per cent overnight on concerns about excess global crude supply and limited progress toward resolving a US-China trade dispute that has clouded the outlook for oil demand.
Gold pared losses overnight to scale a one-week peak as Wall Street eased from record highs on US political uncertainties and sombre earnings while markets awaited more cues on the Federal Reserve's monetary policy.
The mining sector has welcomed an agreement signed by Geoscience Australia and the United States Geological Survey to collaborate on developing critical minerals assets, which include commodities such as lithium and rare earths.
The entity which ran the Perth Fashion Festival for 20 years, before operations were passed to the Fashion Council WA, has entered administration owing $819,000, with owners Mariella Harvey-Hanrahan and Tony Sage planning a deed of company arrangement.
Sipa Resources managing director Lynda Burnett has announced her resignation, after serving more than five years in the role, and will join the board at Regis Resources as an independent non-executive director.
Perth-based property group Australian Development Capital (ADC) has acquired the Belmont headquarters of international rail solutions group Hitachi Rail in an $18 million transaction.
OPINION: Premier Mark McGowan, most Labor Party MPs, and many Liberals as well, are keen for the contentious voluntary assisted dying (VAD) legislation to be passed within the next fortnight, but for significantly different reasons.
Iris Residential is preparing to launch a $130 million apartment project overlooking Claremont oval after the State Administrative Tribunal overturned objections raised by the development assessment panel and the local council.
The Australian share market has rallied and the dollar has dipped after it was revealed the Reserve Bank gave serious thought earlier this month to cutting rates for a fourth time this year.
The Reserve Bank of Australia board acknowledged there was a compelling case for cutting the cash rate to a new record low before leaving it unchanged at 0.75 per cent at this month's meeting.
House values are predicted to rise next year in every Australian city except for Perth, which could experience a further 5 per cent decrease, according to an economics report from HSBC.
Subiaco-based tech company K2fly has signed a five-year contract with Rio Tinto for the provision and implementation of its RCubed resources software across 20 reporting sites.
Woodside Petroleum has laid out plans to triple its gas and oil reserve base which will come from more than $US36 billion worth of projects in Australia, Senegal and Myanmar over the next seven years.
CommInsure will refund more than $12 million to about 30,000 life insurance customers after pleading guilty to 87 counts of unlawfully selling policies in unsolicited phonecalls.
Oil prices fell more than 1.0 per cent overnight, erasing much of last week's gains and tumbling alongside US stocks on uncertainty over a trade deal between the United States and China.
Western Australia's longest-running residential downturn is not a big concern for the founders of Limnios Property Group, because in 50 years of being involved in inner city property, the Limnios family feels like they have seen it all.
Lithium miner Galaxy Resources said it would scale back operations at its Mt Cattlin mine in Ravensthorpe to help reduce costs until the electric vehicle market improves.
A price has been set for processing Scarborough field gas at the Pluto LNG facility, Woodside Petroleum and BHP announced today, the second boost for the $15 billion project in recent weeks.
Local developer Sirona Capital will soon launch a marketing campaign for its $100 million Lyall Street Residences in South Perth, after winning approval to build on a site it has been seeking to develop for the last five years.
Perth-based IT services provider Empired said it would replace revenue lost this year with recently signed management services contracts, delivering $5 million in recurring annual revenue for the company.
Minerals explorer Alderan Resources has entered an earn-in and joint venture agreement worth up to $US30 million with Rio Tinto to explore its Frisco project in Utah.
Environmental work for part of the Ellenbrook rail line has been submitted to regulators today, with a second stage of the project, from Malaga to Ellenbrook, to be reviewed next year.
