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Premier Alan Carpenter has announced that the state government will build a new $1.1 billion multi-purpose outdoor stadium at Kitchener Park in Subiaco by 2016.
Perth-based private equity investor, Viburnum Funds, has supported a group of management and staff led by CEO Nigel Oakey to acquire control of iconic food retail group Dome Coffees from Asia based Navis Capital Partners.
Perth-based IT services provider ASG Group Ltd has announced the impending retirement of Stanley Lewis as chairman and director of the company, following the release of the company's half-year results in late February.
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Aviva Corporation Ltd shares closed up 11 cents, or 15 per cent higher, to 81 cents today after the company announced an initial resource estimate of 1.28 billion tonnes of coal at its Mmamantswe Coal Project in Botswana.
Nedlands-based oil company Boss Energy Ltd has raised just over $7 million, after placing 17.5 million shares at 40 cents each and 4.3 million attaching options with eligible investors.
Shares in West Perth-based Contact Uranium Ltd closed 10.9 per cent higher to 30 cents today following the discovery of three further uranium targets at the company's Kihitian uranium project in Peru.
Housing and works minister Michelle Roberts was in Albany today to release an afforable housing project at Mt Lockyer, and to open the first major park and sales office at its joint venture Oyster Harbour Development.
Former satelite communications provider Comdek Ltd is expanding its coal interests into Tasmania with the acquisition of Energy Investments Ltd for $4.27 million.
A board restructure by Como-based Nido Petroleum Ltd has seen managing director David Whitby promoted to the position of company chairman, replacing Gregor Dixon.
Former West Coast Eagles football player and Brownlow medallist, Chris Judd, has today partnered with Michael Kiernan's Territory Resources Ltd for a 12 month ambassador program focused on the Northern Territory.
The state government has announced plans to amend the Stamp Act, with immediate effect, after Origin Energy successfully challenged a $3 million stamp duty assessment.
The state government has announced an additional funding commitment of $84.7 million to mental health services accross Western Australia, bringing the total extra money it has allocated for mental health since 2004 to $507 million.
Subiaco-based zinc explorer, Ironbark Ltd, has raised $5 million through a placement of 7 million shares at 71 cents each with Africa's largest banking group, Standard Bank.
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The Committee for Perth is a not-for-profit group which aims to inject vitality and liveliness into Perth, with a view to making the city a more attractive place to work and live.
Investors who have backed Paul van Saarloos over the past two decades have been on a rocky ride, but the Perth medical entrepreneur is increasingly confident that his current company is on the verge of success.
David Jones Ltd has confirmed plans to substantially increase the size of its Claremont store by early 2011 to tap into Perth's increasingly affluent western suburbs demographic.
Managed investment scheme project managers are confident investors will support their 2008 capital raising programs, despite uncertainty surrounding the future of non-forestry projects beyond this financial year.
Great Southern Ltd founder John Young remains as private and modest in retirement as he was during his 20-year reign as head of Australia's most successful agribusiness investment company.
Given the strength of energy markets generally – with the price of crude oil almost doubling in the past 12 months and quadrupling over the past four years – it is remarkable and somewhat counterintuitive to note how poorly many oil and gas producers have
The non-forestry MIS sector is confident of a positive outcome from the Australian Tax Offices test case that would vindicate its view that investors in such schemes are carrying on a business.
The state's peak business lobby group has called for more than $500 million in tax cuts as part of reforms it says are needed after releasing research that shows Western Australia has the highest per capita tax take.
