Australian companies need a tax cut and relief from the inflation-driving impacts of ballooning government spending, a top business lobby group has declared.
Matt Mckenzie
Shares in Perth-based mining tech business Imdex closed on a high after beating analyst expectations and brushing off persistently sluggish exploration activity.
Simone Grogan
Brightstar Resources has inked a deal to divest up to an 80pc interest in its Goongarrie gold project outside of Kalgoorlie in Western Australia to streamline its gold production endeavours.
Andrew Todd
The campaign was launched in 2000, when nearly one in four WA adults smoked cigarettes and people still smoked in bars, nightclubs, playgrounds and cars carrying children.
Claire Sadler
ADX Energy has secured variations to its exploration and production licence areas in Upper Austria, allowing for multiple new growth opportunities without the company sustaining any additional expenses.
Rowena Duckworth
St George Mining has secured $8m in backing from leading global mining engineering firm Shandong Xinhai Mining to fast-track the development of its high-grade Araxá niobium-rare earths project in Brazil.
The Australian sharemarket closed at a record high on Wednesday off the back of strong share price growth from the major banks.
Cameron Micallef
Lithium Universe has partnered with a research-focussed Canadian engineering school to drive innovation in lithium processing and grow local expertise in battery metals to build the supply chain.
From the Great Southern FM radiothon to social mountain biking, here’s your guide to the week ahead in the Great Southern.
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Horizon Minerals’ second gold mining operation Phillips Find in WA has kicked off with 800,000m³ of ore on the ROM pad and the company’s first 40,000t heading to the nearby Greenfields mill for processing.
James Pearson
Woolworths will make some office-based roles redundant as part of the supermarket’s broader restructure to cut costs and meet customers’ changing expectations.
Cheyanne Enciso
BHP has tapped former NAB chief executive Ross McEwan to be its new chair as Ken MacKenzie steps down from the role after eight years.
Adrian Rauso
South32 will forge ahead mining more aluminium feedstock bauxite at Boddington within months after securing a crucial environmental approval from the Federal Government.
Estrella Resources has received some stunning assay results from rock chip samples from two supergene manganese discoveries at the company’s Lautém project in Timor-Leste, with grades up to 58.6pc manganese.
Macquarie is quitting the world’s biggest climate banking alliance, becoming the first major Australian financial institution to withdraw since Donald Trump’s return to the While House.
Investors split over the future of flailing West Perth explorer Global Lithium Resources are set to cast their vote on whether an outsider boots out management to see it through a market downturn.
Carrying a big student debt and can’t get a mortgage? See how much more you could borrow under new changes.
Blair Jackson
Aussies putting up with higher house prices are still getting into the market as investors get out of the way, new research shows.
EV Resources has confirmed high-grade antimony from first assays at its newest Los Lirios project in Oaxaca, Mexico. The high-grade results reinforce its belief in its potential as a near-term producing asset.
A construction company has been fined after providing false information to authorities about dumping asbestos at a property.
Alexandra Feiam
A cost-cutting crusade across Rio Tinto’s highly profitable WA iron ore empire rages on with the latest purge striking about 120 jobs.
Brisbane-based insurer Suncorp is rewarding shareholders after posting a $1.1 billion half-year profit, thanks to a relatively quiet start to the disaster season and the sale of its banking business.
Neale Prior
Educators have slammed the government over a growing disparity between the funding for private and public schools, issuing the blunt message that “money matters”.
Holly Truelove
Embattled Mineral Resources boss Chris Ellison has reportedly started paying some of the financial penalties slapped on him by the board over a tax scandal.