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Global management consulting firm Boston Consulting Group has taken a minority stake in Perth-based data and analytics company The Simulation Group, aka TSG Consulting.

A senior Woodside Petroleum executive has urged Perth companies to be less secretive, saying recent deals it struck with local businesses had occurred only after learning of their world-class expertise by chance.

Reigning 40under40 winner Angus Turner has welcomed an investment of almost $4 million into the Lions Eye Institute and pledged to use the funds to implement a new mobile eye healthcare service for use in the state’s most remote regions.

United response to stop the drop into social disadvantage

Almost three-quarters of Australian businesses are family owned, but despite their private nature, many are seeking professional advice on improving their operations.

Western Australia is in danger of missing out on the opportunities presented by its unique biodiversity because of the lack of a collaborative approach by scientists, governments and industry.

A new survey and report offer a clearer picture of Fifo workforces in the resources sector.

Knowing many of Perth’s homeless people by name, Kris Halliday, along with state Member for Perth Eleni Evangel, is championing a new housing model.

The operator of a waste treatment plant developed in Perth’s western suburbs with support from Monadelphous Group has been told it will no longer run the plant following the disclosure of further delays and warnings of increased costs.

Leaders from more than a dozen businesses in Western Australia have come together with a “great sense of urgency” to address issues of female inequality in the workplace, according to Diane Smith-Gander.

In some of the state’s more remote towns, where electricity can be 700 per cent more expensive to deliver than in Perth, embracing cheaper new technology is only part of the solution to driving down costs.

The founders of a popular Korean restaurant in Karawara have curtailed their original expansion plans, despite being flooded with offers to open a number of new outlets.

The state government will provide a free, confidential drug and alcohol counselling service for fly-in, fly-out (fifo) workers and others who work away from home.

Yassmin Abdel-Magied decided years ago to view her gender, ethnicity and faith as unique opportunities to enact positive change.

Western Australian Nobel prize winner Barry Marshall has called on the state government to kick-start a $100 million angel investment fund.

The opening of Fiona Stanley Hospital has enabled two suburban hospitals within five kilometres of one another to completely change their services, dropping gynaecological and maternity offerings to focus separately on aged care and rehabilitation.

SPECIAL REPORT: A small but growing Perth-based health insurance fund believes the market dominance of HBF is an unnatural position that can’t last in an increasingly competitive market.

SPECIAL REPORT: Hospital and aged care industry professionals have given WA’s health care system a mixed review, with some aspects applauded and others in need of improvement.

Carnegie Wave Energy's international growth has been boosted after the Scottish government awarded the Perth-based company a $4.3 million grant to develop a wave energy power conversion system.

Brownes Dairy believes it has benevolently quelled a social media revolt sparked by its move late last year to alter its flavoured milk recipes.

Margaret River has cemented its position among the least profitable of the nation's popular wine regions, with the latest figures showing half of its wine sold at a loss for the second year in a row.

Investment uncertainty in the renewable energy sector hasn’t dampened demand, according to a local clean energy business, which is self-funding major growth plans it says are viable in the current market.

A nearly $50 million national research facility opened in Perth yesterday is set to further define Western Australia’s place in the world as a resources hub, but has its work cut out for it convincing the public of its benefits according to industry leaders.

A prominent Perth investor has personally sponsored the city’s latest surfing event, held at Cottesloe as one of seven long board contests on the World Surf League tour.

WA’s arts sector needs an ambitious, united vision if it is to realise its creative and cultural dreams.

A Perth-based clean energy company has been awarded another major contract with a deal to build a major solar power station that will power part of the world’s largest telescope.

As many as 20 Western Australian mining companies are considering adopting solar power, according to the developer of a $40 million solar project at Sandfire Resources’ DeGrussa copper mine.

Imagine typing into your phone ‘why has my three-year old stopped talking?’ into your phone and having an artificially intelligent program consider your family’s and child’s personal circumstances, guide you through a series of questions and provide suggestions.

The days of fudging your CV or trying to cover up even the most minor of legal infractions may be over, thanks to employers’ increasing use of verification checks.

Several local councils are hoping the state’s assets privatisation program will give them control over one of their most significant expenses – the cost of operating street lights.

A group of determined local business people have come together for the first time in Perth’s history to create a museum dedicated to the city’s past and present.

A Perth not-for-profit group has galvanised support among its 180 members as part of a concerted effort to get the National Broadband Network rolled out to the 3,500 businesses in their district.