The State Government has named Alcock Brown Neaves Group subsidiary Hale Investments Pty Ltd and a Cedar Woods/St Ives consortium as preferred partners for residential developments at the Kwinana Education Complex and Carine TAFE campus.
Murdoch University is finalising plans for a new multi-million dollar biotechnology precinct that will open up its campus to industry and government tenants, and provide access to the proposed Fiona Stanley hospital.
Three Western Australian health charities – Alzheimer’s Australia WA Ltd, Diabetes WA, and Ear Science Institute Australia – are undertaking capital campaigns to expand their services.
Western Australia’s four public universities have joined a national scholarship program to combat declining enrolment figures and an industry shortage of professionals in the information and communications technology field.
Professor Peter Newman has been recruited by Curtin University to head up a research team on sustainability, having recently retired as director of the Institute for Sustainability and Technology Pol
Businesses in regional Western Australia are facing skills shortages like their counterparts in Perth yet not all sectors are being affected, according to a recent study by the University of Western Australia’s Institute for Regional Development.
Stockbroking firm Goldman Sachs JB Were has started the process of rebuilding its Perth office by making four appointments, including the recruitment of Tait Farrow Azure co-founder Jason Farrow.
WA politics reclaimed the spotlight this week as Upper House MP Shelley Archer quit the ALP. Meanwhile both federal parties launched their campaigns, Foreign Affairs spokesmen were in furious agreement and our expats started voting.
Burke faces threat of charges; Stand-off over merger bid; 'Deeper, darker scarier' warning unnerves investors; Steven Goh back with Bell tilt at online trades; PM banks on budget revenue surge.
What started out as a small gardening service for elderly Bayswater residents has become a 25-year commitment to aged and disability care from Bayswater Extended Community Help Organisation.
A MASTER plan to transform the Brookdale area over the next 15 years with sustainable urban development has won two prestigious awards from the Planning Institute of Australia (WA).
BHP tips Pilbara rail access unchanged by merger plan » Good times keep rolling for Australia's top executives » Most farmers 'care little' for single desk » Orica welcomes merger deal » JBWere talks the talk after exodus.
Perth-based Australasian Resources Ltd will spin-off its former namesake asset - the Sherlock Bay nickel project - into a new company so that it canh focus on its iron ore assets.
A new centre for nanochemistry research linking Curtin University, the University of Western Australia and Murdoch University has been launched, four years after the concept was proposed.
A small group of Perth investors who continue to support the unfashionable biotechnology sector are hoping that patience will prove to be a virtue, just like for the mining investors who stuck to their guns during the tech boom and are now reaping the rew
AN $11 million research collaboration designed to unlock stranded offshore oil and gas reserves through improved subsea pipeline design was launched in Perth last week.
Former Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner Christopher Stevenson has been appointed as a judge of the District Court of Western Australia, to take up his position on December 3.
Churchlands-based education provider IBT Education Ltd will develop a pathway program provider for the Cambridge campus of Anglia Ruskin University in the UK, the company has announced.
The Chamber of Minerals and Energy has appointed Reg Howard-Smith as chief executive, replacing Tim Shanahan, who now serves as director of the University of Western Australia's Energy and Minerals Initiative.
Churchlands-based education provider IBT Education Ltd has signed an agreement with Wales' Swansea University to establish a pathway program provider for students from outside the European Union, the company's third UK venture, it has announced.
West Perth-based Western Areas NL and Melbourne-based Troy Resources NL have signed an agreement to explore for nickel at Sandstone in Western Australia, the companies have announced.
The National Australia Day Council has announced the State and Territory finalists for the Australian of the Year Awards 2008, with Western Australia's Mark Bin Bakar, George Jelinek, David Joske and Patricia Lavater among the nominees for the top prize.
The State Government has launched an advertising campaign to encourage businesses to take on more apprentices and trainees, after Education Department figures revealed employer numbers were not keeping pace with the growth in numbers of budding tradespeop
An $11 million collaboration between universities and the CSIRO to unlock stranded offshore oil and gas reserves through improved subsea pipeline design will be launched today at the University of Western Australia.
Semillon sauvignon blanc may be the drop of the moment and chardonnay may be the white wine style that put Margaret River whites on the map, but it is riesling that has dominated the trophy podium at the Qantas Wine Show for the past five years.
Self-employed business owners are generally happier than their salary-earning counterparts, experiencing higher levels of overall life and job satisfaction, according to a new study.
The University of Western Australia’s long-running battle to develop a 33-hectare parcel of land in Shenton Park looks set to proceed after the Environmental Protection Authority concluded that its proposal was acceptable.
University of Western Australia physics professor and expert in gravitational science, Professor David Blair, has been named as the 2007 Western Australian Scientist of the Year.
Wesfarmers Ltd and the UWA Perth International Arts Festival have won the top prize for a business arts partnership at the national Australia Business Arts Foundation Awards, held in Sydney last night.
West Perth-based gold and base metals explorer Centaurus Resources Ltd will acquire Brazilian mineral exploration and development firm San Greal Resources Pty Ltd through a scrip issue worth around $3.3 million, the company has announced.
