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Remote Kimberley polling schedule revealed

The schedule for the crucial period of remote polling for the Kimberley has been released and will start next week. The communities, hospitals and prisons which make up the voting category of "special institutions and mobile polling places" traditionally leans in favour of Labor. At the 2013 election 60 per cent of votes fro...

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WA Labor's Debt Dodging Strategy?

WA industry is concerned a Labor Government would slug business with a tax hike to fund debt repair measures and has called on WA Labor to reveal more details about its "Debt Reduction Strategy". "The business community is concerned that Ben Wyatt's Debt Reduction Strategy is in fact a Debt Dodging Strategy that will see L...

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Market Report with Paul Wareing - Feb 14, 2017

An optimistic economic outlook from the Reserve Bank of Australia was a highlight of last week. After leaving interest rates on hold the Bank revealed it expected economic growth to be around 3% over the next couple of years exceeding market expectations of 2.5%. Increased exports and a lesser effect of subdued mining investment were the ...

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Mt Gibson decision on Koolan Island to be made by end of March

Mt Gibson is expected to make a decision at the end of next month whether to proceed with an 18-month plan to bring its flooded Koolan Island operations in the Kimberley back into production. The Koolan open pit was flooded with seawater in 2014 when the pit wall failed, effectively ending production at the mine. The company must decide w...

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Real Estate: Broome 'may have bottomed out'

Property may be the hottest investment game around, but home owners in Western Australia's northern towns have little to celebrate. Preliminary Landgate data shows regional WA's median house price lifted 1.4 per cent to $355,000 in the December quarter. .... Real Estate Institute WA (REIWA) president Hayden Groves said the figur...

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Broome airport Sees Capacity Decline

The two largest airports in Western Australia, Perth and Broome, have seen scheduled aviation capacity decline this year. At Perth, capacity is down by 2.1 percent for the year-to-date and for Broome, figures are down 2.4 percent. If the year continues like this, this year will see capacity somewhere between what it was in 2012 and 2013. ...

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