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Blue Sky flushes dunnies

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2015
... Elite Portables, Grove Toilet Hire (Brisbane), Southside Power Poles, Nitschke Toilet and Shower Hire, and Phone a Throne (Perth). In 2009, it diversified into the event space, a move that helped it grow despite the post-GFC construction downturn. Today ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... equities news, Argo Investments is expected to post full year results while Talga Resources has its annual general meeting in Perth. In Australia, the market on Friday overcame weakness in the mining sector to post its third straight day of gains. The ...

AMP Capital to invest in Garden City Shopping Centre

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... Capital has lodged a development application with the City of Melville for the $750 million redevelopment and expansion of Perth's Garden City Shopping Centre. Garden City is owned by investors in the $4 billion AMP Capital Diversified Property Fund ...

Perth toll road an opportunity for super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
Superannuation funds may have the opportunity to buy in to a $1.6 billion road project in Perth after the Western Australian transport minister announced plans to sell the income stream from tolls on heavy vehicles. Transport minister Dean Nalder told ...

Shares lower on Greece worries

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... Metals rose one cent, to $2.19. Shares in mining contractor Macmahon rose 1.9 cents to 6.5 cents at 1035 AEST after the Perth-based company wrapped up the sale of its operations in Mongolia for $US65 million.A Locally on Thursday, National Australia ...

Sydney house prices up 5-times national average

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... be up 13% compared to 5% for Melbourne, 4% for Brisbane, 3% for Canberra, 2% for Adelaide and Hobart, with prices flat in Perth and Darwin. The ABS estimates the total value of Australia's 9.5 million residential dwellings to be $5.5 trillion, with 40% ...

Future Fund and AustralianSuper settle court case

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2015
... case started in 2013, when AustralianSuper questioned the sovereign wealth fund's acquisition of an $875 million stake in Perth airport, as part of an agreement in 2012 to acquire $2 billion of airport assets from the Australian Infrastructure Fund (AIX). ...

Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... serious consequences for Australia." The end of the mining boom "is affecting everything, from hairdressers and baristas in Perth to accounting firms in Sydney. "Construction has taken up, and that's helping drive employment and expenditure across the ...

CFA Societies wants industry professionals to swear oath

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... recent financial planning scandals. In an open letter to the treasury signed by the presidents of the Sydney, Melbourne and Perth chapters of CFA Societies - Anthony Serhan, Kate Misic and Jason Chesters - the body called for all industry practitioners ...

Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... out of this relationship. "Each year we send enough iron ore to China to build the Sydney Harbour Bridge, from Sydney to Perth, and then back to Sydney again." QIC chief economist Matthew Peter told Financial Standard that the different FTAs "make it ...