Alan Tudge

The business sector has cautiously welcomed the federal government's announcement of a new visa scheme aimed at attracting high-paid and highly skilled workers to Australia, with the changes effectively reversing some of the stricter rules announced last year when the 457 visa sub-class was abolished.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the government can use its migration powers to force people towards regional areas instead of Sydney and Melbourne.

The prime minister is preparing to unveil a $96 million package designed to ease traffic congestion on Perth's roads.

The state government is seeking tenders to design and build a $32 million multi-storey car park at Mandurah Train Station, with construction to commence early next year.

Murdoch University and the University of Western Australia have confirmed they are in the early stages of planning new campuses in Perth’s CBD, while Murdoch is also partnering with Spacecubed to launch a teaching and events space on St Georges Terrace.

Work has started on the state government’s $716 million, 32 kilometre Thornlie-Cockburn Link, but the Liberal opposition claims the Metronet project is two years behind schedule and its cost is blowing out.

Perth company Georgiou Group has started upgrade works on High Street in Fremantle, as part of a $118 million state and federal government project designed to improve safety and reduce congestion.

Three Perth-based contractors are members of two consortia shortlisted to build the $215 million extension of the Mitchell Freeway from Clarkson to Alkimos.The state government announced today that local contractors BMD Constructions and Georgiou Group have been shortlisted.

Balcatta-based PS Structures has secured the works to build a multi-storey car park at Mandurah railway station, as part of a $32 million project jointly funded by the state and federal government.

A consortium including Georgiou Group has been selected as preferred proponent for the Tonkin Highway Gap project, while the state government has also promoted a number of initiatives to support construction jobs.

The state government is poised to reveal its $4 billion plan for a new port at Kwinana as it seeks to ramp-up infrastructure projects to help kickstart the state’s economic recovery from COVID-19.

Georgiou Group and NRW Contracting are among three consortia shortlisted to widen Mitchell Freeway for southbound road users, with the $76 million project jointly funded by the state and federal governments.

Georgiou Group’s work in hand has reached the highest level in several years after it won a major new roads project in Perth.

Australia's refugee intake has been quietly cut by 5,000 places a year, leaving advocates up in arms.

Scott Morrison says two ministers who were the subject of a Four Corners program about a misogynistic culture in Canberra did not breach his code of conduct.

Attorney General Christian Porter has rejected claims he was involved with a ministerial staffer after allegedly being seen at a Canberra bar.

Edith Cowan University has opened expressions of interest for a lead architect and lead designer to work on its recently announced campus relocation.

Canning MP Andrew Hastie has been appointed Assistant Minister for Defence in a ministerial reshuffle.

Universities and states will be forced to meet stringent conditions before the Morrison government considers plans to allow the return of international students.

Barriers separating industry, teaching and academic clinical research are impeding development of medtech in WA.

Recovering from COVID-19 is shaping up to be a long haul for WA’s universities.

More than $120 million will be spent on boosting early childhood care and education in Indigenous communities, with most of the funding earmarked for an expansion of the Connected Beginnings program.

Ministers are standing by government grants spending, which would face public scrutiny under Labor's proposed "anti-rorting" bill before parliament.

Families could start being vaccinated together at GPs from next month after children aged 12 to 15 were added to Australia's rollout.

A bill to ensure the national cabinet of Australia's political leaders can keep its workings secret has been introduced to federal parliament.

Australia's education minister has pledged a rapid increase in international students returning next year with hopes tens of thousands could be welcomed.

WA’s objections to the draft national curriculum speak to political priorities beyond the history wars.

Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull says the Liberal Party must change course from its increasingly right-wing agenda driving voters away.