A WESTERN Australian geospatial software developer has won an Asia Pacific award for its software warning system, which helps protect infrastructure during major emergencies and natural disasters.
WESFAMERS expects first half 2008-09 net profit to be between $850 million to $880 million, after about $150 million in pre tax provisions and write-downs in the values of some investments.
THE Goldfields could once again become an accurate descriptor of the region around Kalgoorlie after the returns from the gold mining industry helped the area cope with a recent slump in nickel mining.
LUXURY fashion label Emporio Armani will soon join other high-end retailers at the new Wesley Quarter redevelopment, as the first of the centre's retailers open their doors.
Banaszak Legal has been acquired by Leaker Partners after Damira Banaszak accepted a position of senior legal counsel with the National Australia Bank.
WESTERN Australian companies from the design, innovation and culinary industries are making their presence felt at the G'day USA campaign, currently under way in New York, Los Angeles and, for the first time, San Francisco.
IN a recent research report, my colleagues Rachel Ong and Richard Seymour of the Centre for Labour Market Research, and I investigated aspects of the lives of people living on the federal minimum wage.
Earth from above High-profile environmentalist Phillip Toyne is coming to Perth to give a speech at The University of Western Australia Club's theatre auditorium on Tuesday January 20.
Directors Richard Monti and Geoff Brayshaw have been given a combined $30,450 worth of Poseidon Nickel shares in lieu of directors fees, as approved by shareholders at the annual general meeting.
Developers of tourism accommodation are adopting a range of responses to the financial crisis, with some going full steam ahead while others are taking a more cautious approach.
THE state government says it will cut advertising spending by 15 per cent, after campaign and non-campaign advertising increased $20 million in five years under the previous Labor government.
THE struggles being experienced by tourism operators in some parts of Western Australia seem to have missed the north-west, for time being at least, with businesses in Exmouth and Broome positive about the year ahead.
IN a bid to bring extra hotel rooms onto the market, a new study has highlighted investment opportunities in Perth's CBD by compiling a short list of commercial buildings suitable for conversion.
WESTERN Australia has suffered the biggest fall in job advertisements in December as ads across the country slump to recession-like levels, a key employment measure has found.
FORMER Woodside Petroleum executive Dave Agostini (pictured) has been appointed executive of the state government-Commonwealth inquiry into the Varanus Island gas explosion, along with Kym Bills of th
HISTORY shows us that the disillusioned, the disenfranchised, the oppressed, the impoverished, the downtrodden will eventually turn on the society that spawned and then abandoned them.
THE mortgage broking industry is preparing for a major transformation as the credit crisis and slowdown in the real estate market continues to dampen demand.
Western Australia's leading consulting engineers have expressed concern over the state government's capital works program, after a number of advanced projects were put on hold.
VENDORS and lessors of commercial buildings could be required by law to disclose the energy efficiency of their buildings under a proposed federal government scheme.
Kenneth Ambrecht bought 3,070 shares in Fortescue Metals Group at $2.281 per share at share market price, bringing the total value of his shares to $14,362369.
Malaga-based Automotive Technology Group has expanded its presence in China with the signing of another deal with one of the country's largest car manufacturers.
Resource explorer Centamin Egypt has entered into an agreement with a syndicate of underwriters to raise $73 million through a share placement, with funds to be applied to the development of the Sukari gold mine.
The closure of BHP Billiton's Ravensthorpe nickel operations will strip the state government of up to $20 million in mining royalties a year and is expected to cut the region's population by half.
