Payroll tax relief has unsurprisingly topped the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA’s state budget wish-list, ahead of the state’s unveiling of its 2024-25 books on Thursday.
The WA government's move to roll out a second trade commissioner for the South-East Asian region is a concession that its current model is not working, a former commissioner to Indonesia claims.
Premier Roger Cook has defended his government’s decision to give Alcoa the go-ahead to mine in the South West, despite concerns from its own departments around potential environmental impact.
Ousted Town of Cambridge mayor Keri Shannon has been named the next chief executive at the City of Nedlands, bringing an end to the months-long search for the role.
The state government could be dragged to court by Pilbara traditional owners for failing to clean up Wittenoom’s mountains of deadly asbestos tailings.
The treasurer says Australia's foreign investment settings won't discriminate against certain countries, even as his reforms respond to geopolitical threats, the energy transition and shifts in the global economy.
Brittany Higgins' fiancee has bowed out of the looming defamation trial launched by Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds, announcing his decision via social media amid a court hearing today.
The state government says its energy load reduction scheme has had no ramifications for water supply, despite summer supply scalebacks at the Water Corp’s Binningup desalination plant.
Chris Stavrianou has been appointed to the Takeovers Panel, while Sharon Warburton and Tracey Horton step down from the national body after nine years.
Wesfarmers Chemicals, Energy and Fertilisers' CSBP business will fast-track its pursuit of decarbonisation, after receiving $32.9 million from the federal government.
A recent beaching event near Dunsborough in which 28 pilot whales died had nothing to do with offshore wind farm plans for the area, the state government has confirmed.
ASX-listed International Graphite has received an additional $6.5 million grant from the state government, in order to accelerate progression of its downstram processing operations in Collie.
Embattled Port Hedland businessman Adrian McRae will face a no confidence vote after he appeared on Russian state television lauding the “transparency” of the Russian election process.
The state government has allocated $92.2 million in the upcoming budget, to support and expand more than 120 homelessness services across Western Australia.
The US Commerce Department is scaling back export control requirements for Australia and the UK to foster defence trade under the three countries' AUKUS security pact.
Wittenoom’s asbestos tailings would cost $200 million to clean up, according to a buried state government report which also details a preferred remediation method
Chinese state-owned companies are “exploiting” Indonesia, US Ambassador Caroline Kennedy says, amid a call for WA’s battery metals miners to lead decarbonisation efforts.
Applications are open on a $40 million state government decarbonisation program, funded by Chevron Australia in recognition of the performance of its Gorgon carbon capture facility.
The state government has announced it will expand Western Australia's presence in South-East Asia by spending $4.4 million in the upcoming 2024-25 state budget to establish a second investment and trade commissioner role.
Premier Roger Cook has backed the state’s environmental approvals process to meet national standards, as his federal counterparts unveiled a new statutory body but delayed full legal reform.
WA Labor has endorsed a suite of fresh candidates vying for a place in parliament at the 2025 state election, with Mark McGowan’s former chief of staff Dan Pastorelli confirmed for a tilt.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission is up for a leadership overhaul, including its chief executive Warren Day indicating his exit from the regulator.
Traditional owners have hit out at the state government over claims their plans to breath new life into a Pilbara ghost town were beyond the remit of what they had been permitted to do.
