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Hermit kingdomCommentsPremiumMore WA businesses tipped to follow Wesfarmers east

Wesfarmers decision to shift senior executives to the Eastern States is ‘the tip of the iceberg’, according to shadow health minister Libby Mettam.

Josh Zimmerman

MarketsWall St rallies for best day of the year

All three major US stock indexes began the day in the red but turned increasingly green as the session progressed, with tech shares doing the heaviest lifting.

Stephen Culp

Small businessHow a single mum built a $1m empire

This young single mum who dropped out of school is on track to earn $1m in annual revenue, after she decided to do one thing about two years ago.

Rebecca Le May

Housing MarketCapital city house price boom set to fade

While runaway capital city house price growth is expected to simmer this year, research indicates it may still reach 10 per cent Australia-wide.

AAP

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Big business is turning its back on WA

WA and its residents worked hard for many years to shed the ‘Wait a while’ tag and to convince the rest of the nation (and the world) that we weren’t ‘Dullsville’.

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‘Rip the Band-aid off’PremiumFrustrated WA businesses eye east coast relocation

Local businesses say WA’s quarantine restrictions leave them no choice but to switch their headquarters to eastern Australia until the State reopens.

Sean Smith and Adrian Lowe

‘We’re in limbo’CommentsPremiumWesfarmers leaders shift HQ east over WA’s border farce

WA’s biggest business is moving its senior bosses east in frustration at Mark McGowan’s backflip on borders, saying ‘it is now virtually impossible to run a national business from Perth’.

Sean Smith

Flood falloutPremiumDamage to vital freight track means delays could last weeks

Some 400 kilometres of the Trans-Australian Railway which connects the eastern states to Perth has been inundated by heavy rain in South Australia, with some calling it a ‘once-in-300-year’ weather event.

Adam Poulsen

Accelerated pushCommentsPremiumSmall businesses to pivot online amid WA border closure

Small businesses will need to focus on expanding their online presence to boost sales amid WA’s extended border closure, Perth Soapworks owner Narda Ciappara says.

Caitlin Paroczai

Cashed-up Askari acquires NT lithium project

Askari Metals has got its hands on a considerable parcel of sought-after lithium ground after acquiring the Barrow Creek Lithium project in the NT on the back of an oversubscribed $2.6 million capital raise.

Matt Birney

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ADX to test Anshof-3 oil and gas discovery

European-based oil and gas producer ADX Energy is set to test its recently completed Anshof-3 discovery well in Austria after earlier drilling pointed to an Eocene oil discovery and shallower Miocene gas.

Matt Birney

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Turbo risksPremiumASIC boss braces for games in an alternative reality

ASIC boss braces for brave new financial world where pesky regulators, governments and financial media play third fiddle.

Neale Prior

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Confusion continuesCommentsPremium
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Government’s unnecessary delays keep businesses guessing

Finally an acknowledgement that close contact definitions will be updated, though we don’t know when, but a lack of clarity on other issues isn’t good enough.

Adrian Lowe

More certaintyCommentsPremiumResources sector says new COVID rules provide certainty

The resources sector has welcomed new rules that provide for reduced isolation periods for COVID cases and their close contacts when the State Government deems WA to be a high caseload environment.

Stuart McKinnon

Herd on the TerracePremiumExplorers dig deep to weed out COVID charlatans

With COVID-19 spreading in our former bubble, forget any old-fashioned notions that mining industry shindigs are taking a laissez-faire approach when it comes to compliance.

White Cliff advances WA gold and lithium hunt

ASX-listed explorer White Cliff Minerals has wrapped up an RC drilling program at the company’s Cracker Jack prospect, part of its larger Reedy South gold project in WA’s Murchison Goldfields.

Matt Birney

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Tambourah onto nickel-copper-PGE gravity targets

Tambourah Metals has identified multiple airborne gravity anomalies indicative of denser rocks that may host nickel-copper-PGE mineralisation at its Bolgart and Tolarno projects near Julimar in WA.

Matt Birney

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Antilles tables high grade maiden resource in Cuba

Antilles Gold and its Cuban government-owned joint venture partner, GeoMinera have produced an impressive 720,000 ounce high grade maiden gold and silver resource estimate for its La Demajagua deposit in Cuba.

Matt Birney

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MarketsASX rallies after 10-month low

The ASX jumped sharply after plunging to a 10-month low in the prior session, the first day in the green all week.

Rebecca Le May

Done dealsCommentsPremiumRinehart reveals buyers for big slice of cattle empire

Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, has sold a vast bundle of agricultural interests across the country and is close to finalising a deal for three other holdings.

Adrian Lowe

Disgruntled shareholderCommentsPremiumImage directors face exit vote

Chinese-backed Murray Zircon has called for an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of Image Resources to remove three members of the WA mineral sands miner’s board and replace them with its own nominees.

Stuart McKinnon

Out of this worldToyota plans 'lunar cruiser' moon vehicle

Toyota and Japan's space agency are working on a vehicle designed to explore the moon's surface with a launch set for the late 2020s.

Yuri Kageyama

‘major commitment’ Rinehart to sponsor Aussie Olympians through to 2026

Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Prospecting will sponsor the Australian Olympic Team through to 2026, an agreement hailed by the Australian Olympic Committee as a ‘major commitment to Australian Sport.’

Charlotte Elton

Early oil shows promising for Calima in Canada

The pace of activity at Calima Energy’s Alberta operations has not slowed, with two wells being drilled, a third in its final stages and early oil shows while flowing back frac fluid from yet another two wells.

Matt Birney

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