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A panel of industry, government, science and communty members will today release its two year marine science implementation strategy, aiming to make the state a global hub in the discipline and to encourage collaboration between industries such as offshore energy and fisheries.

As WA's last mega mining project swings into operations mode, there's more pain ahead for employment and investment numbers.

WESTERN Australian property players are ramping up the rhetoric on negative gearing, warning that investors in this state would be among the hardest hit if tax breaks for making a loss on an invest

Gains by the major banks, energy stocks and big miners have helped push the Australian share market well over one per cent higher as the oil price lifted and investors considered an improved likelihood of Britain staying in the European Union.

Perth-based contractor SRG says it expects a 50 per cent uplift in underlying profit before tax for the 2016 financial year.

Shark attacks in WA have prompted local businesses to develop a suite of non-invasive counter measures.

The internet's disruptive role is different when it comes to heavy industry.

Sydney-based Pulse Health has backed out of plans to buy the Waikiki Private Hospital and the Westminster Day Surgery.

Gold and base metals producer Metals X has been given an environmental tick for the Wingellina nickel project east of Warburton, although with prices close to their lowest level since the financial crisis a new development may be some way off yet.

Cottesloe-based Triangle Energy Global has emerged as the new buyer for AWE's majority stake in the Cliff Head offshore oil project in the Perth Basin.

Several factors have combined to ensure WA businesses are in better shape than may have been expected, considering the speed and depth of the boom's collapse.

Metcash's core food and grocery business suffered a significant fall in profit as the group tried to keep up with the major supermarkets' price cuts, with the company warning of ongoing pressure in Western Australia following Aldi's expansion into the state.

Five Perth-based junior miners and explorers have announced plans to raise a combined $29.8 million to fund ongoing work at their respective projects, with Excelsior Gold also attracting a new cornerstone investor.

SPECIAL REPORT: International players with big balance sheets are set to change the dynamics of Perth's apartment market.

SPECIAL REPORT: Developers are banking on a change in sentiment later this year in Perth's challenging apartments market.

A 32-year-old man has died on a Rio Tinto mine site in the Pilbara region of Western Australia.

A Canadian gold miner has entered into an agreement to acquire Subiaco-based explorer Gryphon Minerals, in an all-scrip deal worth $86 million.

The Australian share market has opened higher, led by financial and resource companies, including Macquarie Group, Commonwealth Bank, Rio Tinto and BHP Billiton.

Shipbuilder Austal has won two contracts worth about $30 million to build commercial passenger ferries at its shipyard in the Philippines.

The Australian bond market is down with sentiment remaining stronger after weekend Brexit campaigns were suspended in the wake of the killing of a British MP.

Gold rose more than one per cent on Friday, supported by a softer dollar and cautious interest rate comments by a voting US Federal Reserve policy member, and was headed for a third week of gains.

A surge in oil prices has buoyed he Australian dollar ahead of the UK's Brexit referendum vote this week.

Bank break-up ‘not in national interest'The independent chairman of the federal government's Financial System Inquiry, David Murray, said

The cities of Armadale and Cockburn are renewing a push for federal funding of a $160 million new bridge linking Armadale and North Lake roads, with local jobs and a near-$300 million expansion of Cockburn Gateway Shopping Centre hinging on the commitment.

Sensible, rational discussion of important issues will achieve far more progress than conflict and a retreat to stereotypes.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Energy markets, election offerings, contract wins, Wellard and apartment development.

A re-elected Coalition government will adopt the lion's share of recommendations from Dyson Heydon's trade union royal commission, Employment Minister Michaelia Cash told the National Press Club today.

Chevron's outgoing Australian boss has called for improved industry collaboration and better industrial relations policies to support future growth, but has also signalled new ‘greenfields' LNG projects are low on the priority list.

Mineral Resources chairman Peter Wade has sold down a majority of his shareholding in the mining and contracting group, pocketing about $8.04 million.

The share market has ended a rough week with a gain as anxiety about the UK's possible exit from the European Union eases.

Local contractor NRW Holdings has been awarded a $30 million contract to provide its services to Rio Tinto's Yandi Oxbow iron ore mine in the Pilbara, on the same day its long-serving director Ian Burston announced his retirement.

Truffle growers in Manjimup are backing their ability to produce a world-class product in order to maintain a strong share of the international market, amid larger-than-usual crops from Europe this year.