Budding Pilbara iron ore play Brockman Resources has been able to secure the services of ex-Rio Tinto Australia Managing Director, Barry Cusack as it keeps a watch on the subsequent period in the development of its flagship possession.

The mining expert has been appointed to serve as non-executive Chairman, with founding Chairman, Ross Norgard, so as to assume the role of Deputy Chairman.

The receivers of unsuccessful forestry corporation, Great Southern Limited have started the procedure of vending out its intact forestry estate.

Great Southern at one time could manage 60,000 hectares of blue gum plantations in the south of Western Australia and the Green Triangle area of south eastern Australia.

The business supervisory body says that mining corporations need to make sure they obey permanent disclosure rules, when making statements all through the debate concerning the projected resources super profits tax.

With effect to the federal Government's planned Resources Super Profits Tax, the two surveys of the WA economic landscape have been divided.

A new research showed deceleration in mining and heavy industry edifice in the next few years. The research was released by Kevin Rudd and Andrew Forrest, in Perth, yesterday.

It was a public private partnership that involved millions of taxpayer dollars articulates, Eleanor Hall. Two years back when the Adelaide to Darwin railway had gone into a receivership it appeared as if the money would never be recuperated.

The southern Murray-Darling Basin irrigators are left with improbability and injustice due to the artificial limitations put on the water trading. In concern for the same, the National Water Commission wishes to lift them, as soon as the lower water use limits are also set up.