Non-mining investment is at levels not seen since the 1990s recession but a falling Australian dollar, low interest rates and improving business confidence should turn things around.
Northern Star Resources has announced that director Michael Fotios has resigned from the company's board and will take up a position as a consultant to the gold miner.
ERM Power says it will seek to recover legal costs paid by Empire Oil & Gas for its directors' personal legal actions against shareholders as a showdown between the two companies looms at a general meeting next month.
Newcrest Mining's chairman and chief executive have told shareholders they acknowledge how disappointed they are with the company's performance and are taking action.
The federal government has announced the first stage of its promised sell-off of Medibank Private, saying a scoping study will be completed by the end of February 2014.
New laws to repeal Labor's mining tax could save the federal government $13 billion over the next four years, as it also plans to scrap a range of measures designed to assist small business and families.
Wesfarmers has reported generally positive quarterly sales results from its retail businesses, with Bunnings achieving the most rapid growth while Coles' supermarkets and liquor stores lifted turno
A major reform package for Western Australia's ports will take away the entitlement of major port customers to a seat on the port authority boards, and allow the ports to operate 24 hours a day.
Point-of-sale financing solutions group ThinkSmart has entered into a trading agreement with a division of Europe's largest home improvement retail group, Kingfisher, for an innovative gas boiler product.
Chevron is one of five petroleum companies to have been awarded new exploration permits in the federal government's latest round of offshore acreage release.
Shell Australia boss Andrew Smith has defended his company's decision to walk away from an onshore gas development at James Price Point at an at-times heated parliamentary committee inquiry.
Premier Colin Barnett says there is no link between Perth Glory boss Tony Sage donating $25,000 to the Nationals and the club receiving compensation over the refurbishment of nib Stadium.
Utility giant AGL Energy says Australians want cheap, reliable energy with no impact on the environment but that was not yet technically or economically possible.
Perth-based stockbroking firm Hartleys has largely maintained its profitability in challenging conditions - a feat that few, if any, of its competitors managed to achieve in the 2013 financial year
Australia's inflation rate was higher than expected in the September quarter, prompting economists to review whether the Reserve Bank will agree to any further interest rate cuts.
The Australian share market has opened higher with investors confident the US central bank will continue its economic stimulus program following weaker-than-expected jobs figures.
Mining services group Emeco Holdings has recruited Aurizon executive Ken Lewsey as its new managing director, on a package that will make him one of the top 25 best-paid executives in Perth.
The federal government is giving the Reserve Bank of Australia $8.8 billion to strengthen its ability to implement monetary policy and foreign exchange operations.
