WESTERN Australia's top interior designers are looking to diversify their focus away from commercial office fit-outs to government, leisure and hospitality work as the number of new office buildings coming to market peaks.
THE not-for-profit sector was among those most affected by the economic downturn, with about half of the respondents of a recent survey experiencing a decline in income in the six months to February.
TUG of war generally requires an equal balance of strength on either side to ensure the longevity of the game, but at various times in Australia's history politicians have played the game of political push and pull with uneven strength on either end of th
A SERIES of moves by political staffers into roles linked to the resources sector reveals the growing need for corporate players to find their way around bureaucracy and political roadblocks.
REGARDLESS of the rhetoric of corporate responsibility and the greater good, most corporations and business people become involved in arts bodies and foundations due to a personal interest in the arts.
Coote Industrial will be forced to pay Elph $6.5 million after the takeover bidder exercised its put option to sell its stake in Coote subsidiary, Greentrains.
Saracen Properties is expected to announce a replacement builder for the $500 million retail and office development Raine Square within the next two weeks.
Recently-listed Doray Minerals has raised $4 million that will fund further exploration at its Andy Well gold prospect in the northern Murchison region of Western Australia.
Shares in Noble Mineral Resources were higher after the South Perth-based company confirmed a $62 million capital raising to progress its gold project in Ghana.
The first flights have left Australia bound for Europe after a five-day airspace shutdown due to the risks posed by a massive ash cloud from a volcanic eruption in Iceland.
The majority of Australia's private companies are optimistic about the future and are on track to meet revenue targets this year according to one of the world's "big four" accounting firms.
The biggest earthquake to hit the Western Australian Goldfields in 50 years has closed the nation's largest mine and left several historic buildings damaged.
Bibra Lake-based Mineral Resources says it is finalising the largest build, own, operate (BOO) crushing contract ever awarded in Australia for Fortescue Metals Group's Christmas Creek iron ore project in the Pilbara.
Pilbara iron ore hopeful BC Iron has awarded Brisbane-based Watpac construction and services contracts, valued at more than $300 million, at the Nullagine joint venture.
The Rick Hart-chaired Renaissance Minerals is set to open its $6 million initial public offer this week, with plans to list on the local stock exchange at the end of the month.
OM Holdings says it will run the ruler over Consolidated Minerals' Woodie Woodie manganese mine in the Pilbara, which could unlock synergies between both companies.
Shares in West Perth-based Continental Coal were higher after it entered another offtake deal and secured $US47 million ($A51 million) for the Vlakplaats coal project in South Africa.
