The federal government is replacing the 50 per cent capital gains tax discount with a new minimum rate and is restricting negative gearing to new home builds from budget night onwards.
Young people entering the housing market face such difficulties that the government needs to break a election promise on controversial tax changes, Treasurer Jim Chalmers insists.
Paul Holmes à Court's Heytesbury will take over a global shipping company's live export business in a deal that includes the acquisition of the world's largest purpose-built fleet of livestock ships.
Treasurer Jim Chalmers, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Finance Minister Katy Gallagher have released a video online to confirm tax changes for property owners.
Shadow treasurer Sandra Brewer has delivered a scathing budget-in-reply to parliament, accusing Rita Saffioti of making the lives of West Australians worse off.
Instructure says data exposed in a hack of its Canvas software last week, which included thousands of WA students, is safe after it reached an "agreement" with the group behind the attack.
Regional voters turning to One Nation believe the party is the only one "fighting" for them, coalition politicians say, as the conservative alliance continues to reel from losing a key seat in a by-election.
Critical minerals-focused duo American West Metals and EV Resources have announced positive developments from their respective projects in North America.
US stocks have closed slightly higher, with AI optimism fuelling upward momentum even as the earnings-driven fervour of the recent rally eased in the home stretch of reporting season.
Australians and a New Zealander caught up in the fatal hantavirus cruise ship saga are expected to arrive in Perth tomorrow, ahead of a three-week quarantine lockdown in a Bullsbrook facility.
The local share market has slipped after the US rejected Iran's latest peace proposal to end the Middle East war, and as a huge plunge by a prominent biotech name weighed on the bourse.
ANALYSIS: While the US-Iran conflict has disrupted global trade and overshadowed earlier tariff tensions, protectionism has not disappeared from the US agenda.
Avocado famer Russell Delroy has added a Geographe Bay holiday park to his asset base, with the $9.8 million purchase preceding another property's listing.
Deputy Premier Rita Saffioti said she hasn't had an apology from the editor-in-chief of the West Australian newspaper after a post-budget breakfast event was soured.
