The abolition of restraints on the expanded production of Australian uranium could clear the way for an enrichment business worth $20 billion a year by 2020.
Perth company Arafura Resources NL is to spin-off its Northern Territory uranium projects into a new, as yet unnamed, company. The move will leave Arafura as a gold and rare earths company based on its substantial Nolans Bore rare earths, phosphate and ur
From marron to premium nougat, the Western Australian food and beverage industry showcased an array of products at the recent Food and Hotel Asia 2006 Exhibition, held in Singapore.
The establishment of new firms, some prominent partner moves and a plentiful flow of new work have characterised the past year in Perth's legal fraternity.
Most people know of Pacman as an early computer game, but for takeover lawyers the term has been applied to the unusual circumstances surrounding the battle between Alinta and The Australian Gas Light Company.
Big corporate collapses such as Sons of Gwalia, EG Green Group, Henry Walker Eltin and most recently Westpoint Corporation have provided plenty of work for insolvency lawyers, but a much smaller deal has been hailed as the best restructuring of 2005.
Law firms Clayton Utz and Blakiston & Crabb have been at the forefront of one of the major trends in the mining industry in the past two years: the move to Canada by miners looking to raise large amounts of money.
When Western Power formally split into four separate businesses on April 1, it marked the end of a long-established reform plan by the state government.
A booming economy, militant construction unions and the biggest regulatory change in a century have combined to make workplace relations one of the busiest practice areas for Perth's law firms.
The rapid expansion of Western Australia's iron ore industry and the emergence of several aspiring producers have prompted the negotiation of an increasing number of joint venture agreements.
Industrial sales agents are tipping Bayswater and Bassandean as the next areas to attract major investment, as land and infrastructure within 15 kilometres of the city becomes increasingly scarce.
Australian investors spent $13.3 billion in overseas property markets last year, $8.9 billion of this in the US, making Australia the largest foreign buyer of US assets, according to a recent research paper.
Not long after I finished reading Corporate Elders: ‘Organisation Men' Look Back (UWA Press) I had a lengthy and wide-ranging interview with the author, accomplished academic Professor Leonie Still.
They started life as ‘organisation men' and have seen incredible change, including the WA Inc era. They are Western Australia's corporate elders identified in a new book by Professor Leonie Still.
Booms like the one we are experiencing come and go, but they can have a lasting effect. With treasury's coffers overflowing, we thought it was time to explore some new ideas for our great state and remind our government about some old ones.
Perth's inner city continues to be a major investment focus in the local market amid strong off-the-plan apartment sales and major investments in new city residential and infrastructure projects.
Building approvals in Western Australia were down 21 per cent in February 2006 to 2,095, according to figures from the Department of Treasury and Finance.
Swan Valley and Regional Winemakers Association of WA president Arch Kosovich will this week tell his fellow winemakers 2006 has been a pretty good year.
The Moore River area is the state's hottest property in the olive game, with sales of premium olives continuing to climb and the diversification of the products from the region finding new markets in Australia and overseas.
A Federal Court judge has cited evidence of "serious misconduct" and "ruthless disregard" for the interests of investors and creditors in the collapsed Westpoint property group as he appointed rece
Western Australian winery Howard Park is the only Australian wine producer to be awarded gold at the 2006 Wine Masters Challenge – VIII Concurso Mundial de Vinhos in Portugal.
In 1979, 53,000 people attended the WAFL grand final at Subiaco Oval. Now, 27 years on, the state's population has grown by around 800,000, WA is in the middle of an economic boom, and the same venue holds nearly 10,000 less.
March 2006 was important for several reasons, including the arrest of several alleged jihadists in Melbourne, showing that what US President George W Bush calls ‘the long war against terror', continues.
Last week marked the end of an era in Western Australian education when Curtin University of Technology vice-chancellor Lance Twomey retired after nine years in the position and 37 years at the university.
