Beef producer Australian Agricultural Company (AACo) has reached a tentative agreement with Western Australia's Bunuba people to manage the Leopold and Fairfield cattle stations in the Kimber
Western Australia will remain an economic powerhouse even if world financial markets suffer another significant downturn, the state's peak business group says.
Westpac Banking Corporation is raising $500 million through the issue of subordinated notes.Westpac said the notes would be offered at an issue price of $100 each.
The Australian share market has opened almost one per cent higher as investors snapped up resources stocks following commodity price rises and gains on Wall Street.
Seven West Media has renewed its faith in its print media assets and expects an eventual turnaround in the moribund advertising market as it taps shareholders for $440 million.
Iluka Resources managing director David Robb has defended his decision to surprise the market with a sales downgrade and dire short-term outlook for the global economy.
US stocks broke a six-day losing streak on Friday, helped by better-than-feared JPMorgan Chase results that bared a $US5.8 billion ($A5.7 billion) loss on its bungled London derivatives trading ope
Australia blew the last mining boom and can no longer rely on high commodities prices, federal Resources Minister Martin Ferguson says, as China's economy continues to slow.
Paladin Energy says it is reviewing three seperate proposals for joint venture or asset sale agreements, after reporting a high level of interest in the company by outside participants in the urani
China's latest economic data should be welcomed by Australian businesses, as the Asian giant appears to have reined in growth to a more sustainable pace.
Hundreds of companies hoping to win contracts on Gina Rinehart's Roy Hill iron ore project were clamouring to hear how they could improve their chances during recent roadshows.
Energy company AWE has publicly attacked its far bigger joint venture partner Origin Energy after the latest cost blow-out at the troubled gas project in Bass Strait.
Pipeline Partners Australia looks set to succeed in its $1.23 billion takeover bid for energy infrastructure investor Hastings Diversified Utilities Fund (HDF).
Leighton Contractors has set up a new indigenous joint venture to deliver infrastructure works for the state government's $517 million Ord River irrigation scheme.
Former Liberal MP Bernie Masters says he will run against Treasurer Troy Buswell in the March state election because past indiscretions make him unfit to sit in parliament.
Australian Infrastructure Fund (AIX) says that passenger growth at its portfolio of airports grew by 1.3 per cent in May compared with the same month a year earlier.
Western Australia continues to grow off the back of the resources sector but the state's economy is being hampered by faltering commodity production and a possible slowdown in Chinese growth, accor
The Australian dollar has pulled back a bit after dropping to its lowest level in two weeks overnight ahead of the release of key Chinese economic data.
The Nasdaq stock index led Wall Street lower Thursday, as traders shrugged off data showing US unemployment claims fell to their lowest level since March 2008.
