THE WEST AUSTRALIAN (Business news)
Miners to play freight card in iron ore price talks
Australia's iron ore giants are preparing to resume hostilities with Chinese steelmakers over the contentious issue of a shipping premium as the annual "mating dance"gets unde way.
AWB chief flies into storm as growers threaten boycott
WA wheat growers said they were considering boycotting delivering wheat from the coming harvest to AWB's export pool this season.
Nkwe eyes new push on South African platinum
Perth explorer Nkwe Platinum is poised to finalise a $275 million deal that will make it a key player in South Africa's rich platinum fields.
Plug pulled on Asthma play
Plans to revive Kevin Parry's stricken asthma treatment company, Astop Biohealth, have ended in failure, with creditors pulling the plug on a restructuring deed and putting liquidator in charge.
Sundance welcomes Talbot to its board
Directors flag action in PharmAust row
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN (General news)
Amateur fishermen facing annual fee for the right to catch a herring
Recreational anglers could be forced to pay an annual licence fee and face being banned from huge swaths of WA coast and rivers as part of an overhaul of WA's fishing laws.
Soaring grain price more bad news for drought hit farmers
Wheat prices resumed their spectacular rise yesterday after Australia slashed its official forecast for the coming national harvest by more than 30 per cent to 15.5 million tonnes.
RBA boss warns of interest rate rise
Interest rates were set to rise regardless of what the Reserve Bank did and overall economic conditions would tighten in coming months as the credit crunch bit, the central bank's governor Glenn Stevens has warned.
McHale rules out Lord Mayor's arts precinct
