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Cautious consumers are keeping their wallets firmly shut and business needs to adapt to this new-found frugality, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia says.

US stocks scored small gains on Wednesday as investors weighed encouraging housing data and falling crude oil prices that stoked hopes for more growth in the tepid economy.

The Australian dollar is slightly higher after Japan's central bank announced it would extend its stimulus program for the world's third largest economy.

Former National Australia Bank state manager Andrew Whitechurch has been appointed head of Bankwest's new products and marketing division.

South Australian Treasurer Jack Snelling has hit out at a joint proposal from the four Liberal states to change the way GST funds are carved up.

Australian shares finished at their highest levels since the start of May, driven up by news of a major Japanese economic stimulus program.

Alicanto Minerals has become the fifth Perth listing on the Australian Securities Exchange this financial year.

Privately-owned firms Thistle Fabrication and Primero Group, as well as Geraldton's Lenane Holdings, have won construction contracts for the Empire Oil & Gas-led Red Gully processing facility n

Exco Resources has accepted a sweetened takeover offer from Washington H Soul Pattinson worth about $95 million.

An energy conference in Darwin has heard conflicting accounts of whether Australia's tax system deters companies seeking to invest in Australian resources projects.

The mining industry has welcomed the strengthening of environmental conditions for the state's proposed first uranium mine after an independent review of appeals.

Energy giant ConocoPhillips coud become the second company, after Japan's Inpex, to transport gas from a field off the Western Australian coast to an LNG processing plant at Darwin.

Australia's largest ocean-grown barramundi producer has launched a $4.5 million share offer to fund the expansion of its fish farm at Cone Bay, north east of Broome.

Mark McGowan is no doubt aiming to tap into this uncertainty and gain support from the football community across the board.

The listed retailer's departure from an iconic location seems to be a wise one.

The commercial lending departments of the big banks will be on high alert as some major clients hit market headwinds.

Liberal Party MPs who have wavered in their support for wheat export deregulation are defying the party's free-market principles and the robust policy-making process employed on this issue.

Are we seeing a new style of WA Inc as big, sophisticated resources companies influence political life in the state?

The Bibbulmun Track Foundation will run its 11th team-building event in late October and is looking for a not-for-profit organisation to take part, free of charge.

Fremantle-based KULCHA Multicultural Arts of Western Australia is on a mission to use the arts as a catalyst to make WA more culturally inclusive as skilled migration to the state grows and its cul

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Australia cannot standstill and must innovate continuously to become a learning society, squarely focused on the future.

Bankwest has joined the ‘free-form' office revolution, with the launch this week of a technology-driven activity-based office as it settles into its new premises at Raine Square.

THE state government has moved to rezone more than 100 hectares of land near Mandurah for residential development but developers say this just adds to the big queue of lots in the area held up by k

A HUB to service the oil and gas industry may result from the development of 430 hectares of industrial land in South Bullsbrook after the state government announced a planning amendment which incl

Many analysts predict that by 2020 Australia will overtake Qatar as the world's leading LNG exporter and, with Western Australian LNG exports accounting for 87 per cent of the national total in 201

Traditional takeover activity in corporate Western Australia has been quiet this year but it's a different story in the oil and gas sector.

Western Australia's live export market is facing further uncertainty as tighter regulation and the high Australian dollar put pressure on both farmers and exporters.

Australia's economy has adjusted well to the impact of the mining boom - which is likely to continue to for some years, the Reserve Bank of Australia says.

Department store retailer David Jones has reported a 39.9 per cent fall in full year profit.