Coogee Chemicals chairman Gordon Martin has challenged receivers of Great Southern by devising a plan to personally contribute the vast bulk of working capital, of up to $20 million, needed to enable six collapsed timber schemes to be brought to harvest.
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An increase in rental income and new acquisitions have boosted the full-year net profit of Bunnings Warehouse Property Trust by 11 per cent to $73.2 million.
Mount Gibson Iron has recorded a 62 per cent slump in full-year net profit after tax as it continues arbitration proceedings with former customers over termination of offtake deals.
Staff at Curtin University, along with their counterparts from Murdoch University, have been granted protection for planned industrial action over wage disputes.
BHP Billiton, Chevron, Rio Tinto, Woodside Petroleum and the North West Shelf Venture will collectively provide more than $5 million towards the Pilbara's health services as part of a partnership with the government.
The WA opposition has continued its campaign to target the economic credentials of Premier Colin Barnett's government and his Treasurer Troy Buswell by releasing a gloomy review of the state's financial future.
Voting in local council elections will be more transparent and less susceptible to manipulation by the big political parties after the state parliament passed legislation to return to the first-pass-the-post voting system.
Reed Resources has moved to expand its tenement portfolio, signing a $3.2 million option agreement to acquire the Mount Marion lithium project near Kalgoorlie.
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MINERS expect little benefit from the federal government's easing of foreign investment review regulations, which is aimed at speeding the flow of foreign capital into the junior end of the sector.
The financial planning industry is facing a structural overhaul as parliamentary committees, industry groups and the public debate proposed reforms. Jonathan Barrett asked three Perth financial planners for their opinion on how to improve the industry.
THE long-running dispute over rents at Fremantle Markets could be near an end, after an independent assessment indicated the markets' directors have been charging fair rents.
MORTGAGE brokers have taken a battering over the past two years so perhaps it's not surprising that the big franchise groups in this sector have focused on service to retain support.
