A former advisor to the WA Agriculture Minister has been selected to run for Forrest in the upcoming election, as the Prime Minister revealed Australia will head to the polls on May 3.
Federal opposition leader Peter Dutton has used his budget reply speech to spruik four bills a Coalition government would introduce on the first day of parliament, if elected.
Nine Entertainment has confirmed the personal data up to 16,000 subscribers to The Age, The Australian Financial Review and The Sydney Morning Herald have been exposed online.
The Australian share market has finished in the red, following US and European equities lower as fresh tariffs on cars made outside America ended a brief reprieve from White House trade policy unease.
Leading mining executives have weighed in on the Pilbara unionisation battle, with bosses at BHP and Northern Star warning industrial relations policy settings could stifle investment.
The push by unions to gain coverage at Rio Tinto’s Paraburdoo mine has gone up a notch after the Australian Workers Union lodged an application with the Fair Work Commission.
Backers of two Mid West iron processing projects hope to tap into more than 25 billion tonnes of magnetite discovered in the region to feed a growing global appetite for green steel.
Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska, who lodged an appeal in a WA court, has failed in his bid to overturn a ban over him entering and doing business in Australia.
The Australian share market has posted its highest close in nearly three weeks, led by financials as banks continue to bounce off a post-earnings sell-off.
The WA government has been promised $640 million in unallocated road funding from their federal counterparts after receiving just a fraction of the pool of cash in the budget.
