THE WEST AUSTRALIAN (Business News)
Robb offers sand lifeline
New Iluka boss David Robb has thrown a lifeline to the miner's struggling WA mineral sands operations by launching studies into a $400 million development of its rich Jacinth-Ambrosia zircon deposits in the Eucla Basin in South Australia.
Lignor talks up expansion plans
Yet to lodge the prospectus for its $130 million float and two years away from its first production, ambitious new lumber group Lignor is talking up the opportunities for its expansion into the Eastern Etates and overseas.
Catwalks yield slow rewards: Costarella
High fashion group Costarella Design is claiming critical success on the world's catwalks and interest from industry buyers, but has warned financial rewards could still be a while for its shareholders.
THE WEST AUSTRALIAN (General News)
MacTiernan threatens to kill Buckeridge's plan for new port
A fresh war has erupted between Len Buckeridge and the State governement after Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan revealed yesterdaythat she would not approve the building magnate longstanding plan to build a port at James Point for at least two years, if at all.
Subi Oval "patch-up' a bad idea: Premier
The WA Football Commission is under increasing pressure to embrace plans for a new 60,000-seat stadiumafter Alan Carpenter dismissed the option of rebuilding Subiaco Ovalas a "patch-up" job.
Investors tip $10 billion into super
Superannuation investors poured an estimated $10 billion into super fundsover the past three months as they rushed to claim a federal government tax breakthat expired at midnight on Saturday.
