State governments have agreed taxes they control such as payroll and stamp duty could be targets as part of the federal government's tax reform agenda next year, which many tip will involve an increase in the GST.
Window blinds manufacturer and retailer Kresta Holdings has been provided with a CNY50 million ($A10.6 million) loan by its Chinese parent company to pay off an existing facility and expand its east coast manufacturing operations.
The federal government seems to be preparing the public for reform with its semi-regular announcements from ministers that ‘everything is on the table', particularly since Malcolm Turnbull took the prime ministership from Tony Abbott.
BC Iron shares plummeted today after the company announced production at the Nullagine joint venture would be suspended as a result of the weak iron ore price, with more than 200 jobs at risk.
Woodside Petroleum and its joint venture partners have given the go-ahead to a $2 billion subsea development at the North West Shelf Project off the Pilbara coast.
The Australian share market has opened lower as the key mining and bank stocks lose ground and as investors exercise caution ahead of next week's US interest rate decision.
US stocks have closed higher after a three-day decline but sharply pared gains late in the session as oil dropped to near seven-year lows and the strong US dollar weighed on sentiment.
US stocks have climbed but other major world equity markets were little changed ahead of a widely expected interest rate hike by the Federal Reserve next week, and oil resumed its slide over persistent worries about weak demand and a supply glut.
Gold futures prices have edged lower and are vulnerable to further weakness as the dollar rebounded and ahead of a widely anticipated US interest rate rise next week.
Researchers at Curtin University, Murdoch University and the University of Adelaide have found high rates of adulteration, substitution and mislabelling of traditional Chinese medicines.
Shares in shipbuilder Austal plummeted 25 per cent today on news that problems at its US operations could shave up to 2 per cent off its profit margin there.
Publicly-listed almond grower and health food retailer Select Harvests has sold its Western Australian orchard project for $9.5 million, following $60 million of write-downs over the past three years.
Deputy Premier Kim Hames will stand down from that role in February next year, but will remain as minister for health and tourism as he prepares for his retirement from politics at the 2017 state election.
Billionaire Gina Rinehart has seen off the first shipment of iron ore from her $10 billion Roy Hill project, on the same day BC Iron entered a trading halt ahead of a review of its Nullagine joint venture project.
Supermarket giant Woolworths allegedly pressured more than 800 of its suppliers for make extra payments worth up to $60 million to shore up the retailer's profits, the consumer watchdog says.
Perth company directors Ian Middlemas and Domenic Martino have joined a flurry of pre-Christmas M&A deals that are valued at nearly $300 million, and designed to revive moribund resources companies.
A number of Perth's leading community sector experts have spoken candidly about why it is so difficult to measure the impact their work has on those they're helping and society at large.
Mining and debt have always been a deadly combination, especially for investors, but toss in a stiff dose of politics and you have a brew infinitely more volatile for everyone, including government.
Property Council of Australia's long-serving Western Australian executive director Joe Lenzo has announced he will retire next March, with the search for a successor to begin immediately.
Western Australians lead the nation in charitable giving according to recent Roy Morgan Research which has revealed 71 per cent of the state's population gave to charity in the past year, compared with the national average of 66 per cent.
Western Australia's unemployment rate has lifted 0.2 per cent in November to 6.6 per cent in seasonally adjusted terms and employment eased back from a record high, in contrast to strong employment growth in the rest of the country.
