Not-for-profit aged care provider Bethanie has set a high benchmark for board remuneration in a sector where many of its peers do not pay any fees to board members.
Mining junior Atlas Iron plans to be in production at its planned Corunna Downs project by March 2018, the company announced at its annual general meeting today, while current operations at Wodgina and Abydos will end in late 2017 and early 2018 respectively.
The Australian share market has ended slightly lower after day of choppy trading as investors wonder if US President-elect Donald Trump will implement policies to stimulate the US economy.
SPECIAL REPORT: The median base pay of newly appointed chief executives at listed Perth companies fell this year to $295,000, a survey by Business News has found.
SPECIAL REPORT: The detailed reporting of remuneration by listed companies means it should be easy to determine the state's best-paid chief executive, but the reality is more complicated.
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched civil proceedings against Perth-based State One Stockbroking, and in a separate matter has accepted undertakings from two liquidators employed by Melsom Robson.
The state government has used its latest cabinet meeting in Midland today to announce four deals worth $67 million to support future medical, university and residential projects in the former railway workshops area.
Aspiring gold miner Gold Road Resources has received the Environmental Protection Authority's nod of approval for its proposed development of its $507 million Gruyere project near Laverton.
Perth-based OTOC has further expanded its operations with the acquisition of Tasmanian business Lester Franks Survey & Geographic for up to $5 million in cash and shares.
Building materials supplier Boral has agreed to buy US firm Headwaters Incorporated for around $US2.6 billion ($A3.5 billion), which Boral says will more than double its US business and help accelerate development of its light building products platform.
The Australian share market has opened lower, following Wall Street's weak leads and amid uncertainty around President-elect Donald Trump's effect on the US economy.
Oil prices have settled higher, closing out a strong week that has seen crude buoyed by growing expectations that OPEC will find a way to cap production at the end of the month.
Gold has fallen to its lowest level since late May as the US dollar surged to its highest in more than 13-and-a-half years on expectations of a December US interest rate rise and higher fiscal spending from President-elect Donald Trump's incoming administration.
Weak wage gains blow out budgetThe Coalition government is bracing for a significant deterioration in next month's budget update as weaker wages growth offsets any tax rev
Western Australian businesses will have another opportunity to win work in the defence sector, with 30 companies today meeting the two potential head contractors for the Army's Land400 procurement program.
In this Business News podcast, Mark Beyer and Dan Wilkie discuss Collier Homes, Rottnest Express, Sealanes, Diab Engineering, office leasing deals, and chief executive salaries.
Bayswater-based recycling company Resource Recovery Solutions was fined $85,000 in the Magistrate's Court yesterday for the death of a worker in September 2013, when the roof of a unit inside its plant collapsed under the weight of debris.
A group of entrepreneurs from seven Western Australian technology businesses are heading to North America next week as part of a new program founded by Deloitte designed to build overseas networks for the state's startup sector.
Western Australia needs to sell itself better as a destination for international students, with the state's share of foreign students studying in Australia plunging over the past 13 years, accordin
Law firm Gilbert + Tobin is the latest company in Perth to shift address, as firms with expiring leases take advantage of the most tenant-friendly market in 25 years.
Experienced business manager and director Ken Perry is bringing a new venture to the Perth market, after becoming a director of Executive Interim Management.
The state government reached a milestone in its asset sales program last night after passing a bill to enable the leasing of Port Hedland's Utah Point, despite opposition from a lobby group representing the miners that currently use the wharf facility.
Automotive Holdings Group has reassured shareholders that its troubled refrigerated logistics business is on the mend, after releasing a trading update that showed lower profits.
