Western Australia, Australia News

TONY EASTLEY: West Australian Labor Senator Mark Bishop says the debate over Enterprise Migration Agreements is just the start of the discussion.

Big water users should be charged more to ensure "scarce" drinking supplies are not wasted and people are given appropriate price signals, says Water Minister Bill Marmion.

Patients would sleep between paper sheets under a secret cost-cutting plan by a major Australian hospital.

Ram Resources Limited is a mineral resource company. The company principally engages in the acquisition, exploration, and development of uranium, copper, gold, and other base metal properties in Peru, Kyrgyzstan and Australia.

Richmond Mining Limited is a mineral exploration company focusing on exploration of nickel, base metals, gold and uranium projects in Western Australia.

Thousands of travellers had their plans thrown into chaos yesterday when New Zealand's biggest airport - the only one in the country equipped to land aircraft in low visibility - was brought to a standstill by fog.

Dr Andrew Ratledge and wife Jessie, at their Mt Barker home, expect a $380 bonus in their bank account.

SCIENTISTS are concerned that a decision to split the world's most sensitive and expensive radio telescope could negatively affect the long-term future of the multibillion-dollar project.

SteamRanger Heritage Railway is running two steam locomotives and two diesel powered railcars from Goolwa as part of the annual About Time History Festival.

It is engaged in the acquisition and exploration of petroleum and gas properties, and production of crude oil and gas.

A 73-YEAR-OLD man has been stabbed to death during a domestic dispute in Wagin, 240km south-east of Perth.

Engineering contractor Laing O'Rourke and Kawasaki Heavy Industries have been awarded a contract to deliver four cryogenic tanks for the $34 billion Ichthys LNG project, with Perth-based engineering firm BG&E as their design consultant.

Few South Australians would recognise acclaimed Victorian architect John Wardle's name but they would find it hard to miss his growing collection of buildings now shaping the landscape at the University of South Australia.

DAVE TOMLINSON, one of the 800 workers shed by BlueScope Steel at Port Kembla last year, is the sort of advertisement the federal government and mining industry love.

It's not often that Clive Palmer agrees with the Federal Government, but he's firmly backing its decision to introduce enterprise migration agreements to ease skilled labour shortages.

Andrew Forrest's Fortescue Metals Group has increased its export capacity from Port Hedland opening a new berth today, despite recent talk of an end to the iron ore boom.

Rangers will use commonsense in seizing domestic felines that have been deemed to have committed an offence under Western Australia's new cat laws, Local Government Minister John Castrilli says.

A decision is due on Friday on where to site one of the great scientific projects of the 21st Century.

A new report shows the fastest growing areas in the metropolitan area are Perth's most northerly and southerly suburbs.

Iron ore miner Flinders Mining has gone into a trading halt pending an announcement on the court hearing over its proposed $554 million takeover by a Russian steel maker.