Louise Stewart

A new body for local subcontractors is calling for participation in a survey to help reshape the payment process in the industry.

Subcontractors WA chair Louise Stewart has welcomed the state government’s decision to expand the use of project bank accounts (PBAs) to protect subcontractors, but is pushing for the introduction of legally binding statutory trusts.

One of the leading Liberal Party of Australia pre-selection candidates for Curtin, Celia Hammond, has already come under fire from former Subcontractors WA chair Louise Stewart, who is likely to run as an independent candidate for the seat.

OPINION: The field of candidates to replace Julie Bishop in the seat of Curtin got crowded very quickly.

Battling Western Australians may shift their votes from the Liberal Party of Australia to the Australia Labor Party at the looming election, wooed by Labor's policies on wage growth and penalty rates.

An independent candidate for former foreign minister Julie Bishop's safe seat claims she is the victim of a "supposed hoax" involving fake opinion polling data and has refused to pull out of the election race.

Construction and building payment platform ProjectPay has received a 100,000-pound grant to trial its payment system on a 20 million-pound project in London.

Dozens of subcontractors and employees affected by the collapse of construction giant Pindan have rallied on the steps of Parliament House this afternoon.

New legislation aims to provide better protection for payments to subcontractors, but some say it misses the mark.