Andrew Yates has admitted the whistleblower who raised allegations about confidential information being used to win lucrative contracts was made to feel uncomfortable.
Stephen Johnson
The yen changed hands at 161.25 per dollar in early trading in Tokyo after hitting 161.81 overnight, its weakest since July 2024.
Rocky Swift and Makiko Yamazaki
BHP’s shares fell in London overnight, although some investors still believe it’s a winner from the AI trade and a renewed bout of global inflation.
Tom Richardson
Accounting firm KPMG has come under fire during a parliamentary hearing over claims client documents were misused.
Ike Morris
Another earthquake has rocked a major Australian gold mine, just months after workers were forced to take shelter underground.
Blair Jackson
The supply of oil and gas may normalise within months if a Middle East peace deal holds. But lag effects may still push the cost of food and building materials higher.
Shares in BHP have tumbled after revealing another multi-billion-dollar cost blowout to build its giant Jansen potash mine in Canada.
Adrian Rauso & Thomas Biesheuvel
A new State Government plan to bypass local planning laws and allow for greater density around three western suburbs train stations will go before WA’s peak planning body in a confidential meeting this week.
Harriet Flinn
Some property listing adverts are so sophisticated they feel like you are reading a wine label, including a home in White Gum Valley.
Kim Macdonald
Victory Metals on Thursday officially launched its rare earths pilot processing plant in WA, paving the way for the company to showcase its product to offtake partners across the world.
Neil Watkinson
A new property price record has been set for Perth in 2026 with the sale of a $15.3 million Dalkeith home.
The City of Stirling is investigating a backyard development after concerns a single granny flat approval has led to what neighbours describe as an ‘accommodation village’ in a residential street.
Liam Murphy
New carve-outs for startups and a backdown on trusts are aimed at reducing some of the political blowback from major capital gains tax reforms.
Zac de Silva and Jacob Shteyman
A consultancy giant will take centre stage at a federal parliamentary committee hearing examining corporate oversight following an audit leak scandal.
Kaaren Morrissey
A Mosman Park riverside residence featuring a gym, steam room, sauna and temperature-controlled wine cellar has hit the market.
Scaffolding on the western side of the Parthenon in Athens has been removed, revealing the facade for the first time in more than 200 years.
Staff Writers
US stocks have closed higher as investors cheered news of a peace deal between the United States and Iran.
Sinéad Carew and Twesha Dikshit
Three ships have sailed through the Strait of Hormuz following a US-Iran deal to end their war, but Israeli strikes stir doubt about peace efforts in Lebanon.
Maya Gebeily, Rami Ayyub and Jonathan Saul
Britain's central bank has kept interest rates at 3.75 per cent as the inflation threat from rising energy prices falls following a deal to end the Iran war.
Pan Pylas
The famous building business founded in Perth has been sold by Canadian private equity to a Japanese giant.
Matt Mckenzie
Labor has softened its CGT reforms after backlash from small business and start-ups, but founders say the reprieve still comes with risks.
Ryan Johnson
Maccas has quietly axed a signature Aussie classic from its menus 17 years after they were first introduced Down Under – despite the range once generating $2m a week.
Emma Kirk
One of the volunteers who helped craft the signs that welcome people to Narrogin townsite is pleading with the council not to replace them with $171,000 rock designs that “every second shire has got”.
Melissa Sheil
True North Copper has consolidated its Cloncurry copper project by acquiring the adjacent Mongoose resource, combining the Taipan-Mongoose resources into a bigger system ahead of a key prefeasibility study.
Andrew Todd
