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President Xi Jinping of China is poised to sign a free trade agreement with Australia on Monday following the G20 summit in Brisbane, after nearly a decade of negotiations.

A fresh food market, an amphitheatre and a playground set among native gardens are among the amenities the state government revealed today for Perth's newest public plaza, Yagan Square.

In this week's Podcast, Mark Pownall, Mark Beyer and Shanna Crispin join James Lush to discuss mental health in the workplace, Perth house prices, “Aussie” John Symond, Murdoch University, ‘ethical' investing, WA's biggest private businesses, sporting venues and more.

Sandfire Resources has filed proceedings in the Federal Court against the Centre for Australian Ethical Research over media releases published on its website last month, which Sandfire argues contained “misleading and deceptive” information.

Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart is looking to expand her business empire with a $500 million bid to take advantage of booming demand for baby formula in China.

Support from Perth's corporate sector has helped provide a transport solution for Food Rescue, potentially doubling the amount of fresh food the organisation can collect from the central business district.

Diversified development giant Lend Lease is lukewarm about Australia's economy even though it is upbeat about local residential construction.

Australia's share market has opened slightly lower, with the major banks lower and the big miners mixed.

Global crude futures plunged to fresh lows Thursday amid a swamped market as US production hit a new record and the market mulled Saudi denials of a price war.

The Australian dollar has bounced back from its tumble after the Reserve Bank said it hasn't ruled out intervention to bring the currency lower.

Gold prices rose on Thursday, as investors reacted to reports of Russian troop movements in Ukraine and Moscow's threats to dispatch warplanes for maneuvers in the Gulf of Mexico.

This week's instalment from Peter Kennedy's Tales from Boom Town focuses on the extraordinary events that led to Colin Barnett becoming premier of WA.

The City of Subiaco has reversed a plan which would have required would-be bar owners to jump through identical hoops as required by the Department of Racing Gaming and Liquor.

Latin Resources has entered into a $3.12 million funding agreement with US-based Lind Partners Australia to fund the development of its copper projects and its Guadalupito Andaulsite heavy mineral sands project in Peru.

The Franchising Council of Australia and the Australian National Retailers' Association have welcomed the release of the updated Franchising Code of Conduct by the federal government.

The share market has closed lower for a fourth straight day as banking and energy stocks weighed on the market.

Murdoch University chancellor David Flanagan has revealed up to five senior executives are under investigation, while also disclosing some of the “shocking” evidence against them.

For the best ringside seat at a bruising encounter don't buy a ticket to a boxing event, sign up for an iron ore forecasting conference which will, for the first time since prices crashed, put the big boys of the industry on the same podium as the small producers.

The state government has made further amendments to its decision to charge a $4,000 public school fee for families on 457 visas, after community backlash resulted in multiple delays.

Labor believes the federal government is planning to bypass a hostile Senate and introduce its controversial GP co-payment via the backdoor.

The Western Australian government's flagged destruction of up to 150 remote indigenous communities is being widely condemned as harking back to assimilation days.

The Reserve Bank of Australia is confident the economy will gradually pick up pace in the next couple of years, with the labour intensive services sector a key driver.

About $5.6 million owed to thousands of Western Australians is lying unclaimed in the Department of Treasury's register of unclaimed money database, Treasurer Mike Nahan says.

Joe Hockey is not going to be panicked into further budget cuts despite a likely decline in the nation's income.

One of Australia's most prominent businesswomen, Westpac chief executive Gail Kelly, is stepping down after seven years at the bank's helm, to be replaced by Brian Hartzer.

Australia's share market has opened flat as the major miners lifted but the big banks weakened.

Wall Street's five-day record run has ended after huge fines for rigging the foreign exchange market sent the shares of three leading US banks tumbling.

Total reported sales activity has remained virtually unchanged for three weeks with only minimal variations in house sales whilst the fall in multi- residential sales this week was replaced with a lift in land sales.

The Australian dollar is higher, supported by a weaker yen and a surging New Zealand dollar.

Oil prices retreated with traders fixed on the OPEC oil cartel which appears set to maintain output at an upcoming meeting despite ample global supplies of crude.

Gold prices are lower as the US dollar's gains drove investors out of the precious metal.

Developers are set to be offered incentives by local governments to create affordable housing options, part of a suite of changes to the state's planning guidelines adopted by the Western Australia