A major supermarket has warned higher fuel costs due to the conflict in the Middle East are weighing on customers, despite posting a lift in quarterly sales.
Kaaren Morrissey
Chris Ellison’s Mineral Resources paid down $400 million of debt and boosted its production targets after successfully weathering Pilbara storms.
Adrian Rauso
Woolworths has posted quarterly sales results amid surging inflation and massive extra fuel costs across the company’s network.
Blair Jackson
Woolworths says it has so far weathered the oil price storm fuelled by war in the Mid East but warns there are early signs customers are turning more cautious and suppliers are facing inflationary pressures.
Daniel Newell
Queensland’s busiest police station faces closure after a discovery prompted urgent testing and a message to staff to avoid using the ground floor.
Tia Clarkson-Pascoe
Amazon says sales in its cloud computing unit were up 28 per cent in the January-March period, the fastest increase in 15 quarters.
Anne D'Innocenzio
Google's parent company revenue rose 22 per cent to $US109.9 billion in the first quarter, above an estimate of $US107.2 billion.
Akash Sriram and Kenrick Cai
One of several protesters who stormed Woodside Energy’s AGM last week is the son of Assistant Climate and Energy Minister Josh Wilson.
Ria Pandey
Meta has revised its capital expenditure outlook, lifting the projected full-year range to $US125 billion to $US145 billion from a previous estimate of $US115b.
Staff Writers
Australian small businesses have made a surprising start to the new year, as the ongoing conflict in the Middle East and rate hikes threaten sales growth.
Cameron Micallef
Flexible workspaces are no longer a peripheral solution and are becoming firmly embedded within Australia's evolving office ecosystem, a report has found.
Derek Rose
Batteries are now the primary tool for managing evening spikes in electricity demand, a job previously falling to gas and hydro at greater expense.
Poppy Johnston
Australia's renewable energy and rich iron ore deposits make it a potential leader in green iron and steel but other nations may be closing the gap.
Jennifer Dudley-Nicholson
The US central bank is leaving its interest rate unchanged for the third straight meeting but signalling it could still cut rates in the coming months.
Liontown Resources is starting early works to expand its Kathleen Valley lithium mine in the northern Goldfields in response to the battery commodity’s strengthening market.
Neil Watkinson
Minerals 260 has awarded its first construction contract at the Bullabulling gold project south-west of Coolgardie, with $59.1 million to be spent building a 400-person accommodation village.
A controversial 200m Colorbond steel fence that divided the Cockburn council two weeks ago will have its fate decided by the State Administrative Tribunal.
Eliana Hullett
Westgold Resources’ gold output was lower in the latest quarter, but the high gold price allowed the company to continue building its cash stockpile.
Kalgoorlie-Boulder mining services firm MLG Oz is making several leadership changes to provide distinct separation between strategic oversight and executive management, while maintaining governance structures.
Density comes with challenge and opportunity. Let’s spread it around.
Kim Macdonald
The State Government has moved to ease the cost burden on WA explorers and miners amid the prevailing period of higher fuel costs.
The looming federal budget will focus on reducing inflation and intergenerational fairness, the treasurer says, as the fallout of the Iran war continues.
Jacob Shteyman and Andrew Brown
US stocks have closed mostly lower as investors digested comments from the head of the country's central bank.
Stephen Culp and Niket Nishant
More and more West Australians relying on income support or minimum wage are falling through the cracks in housing, with fewer rentals than ever being accessible to those struggling most.
Oliver Lane
