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Inspired Homes victims have met with WA Premier Roger Cook at Dumas House in West Perth.

ConstructionCommentsPremiumCook wants ASIC to take a look at Inspired’s finances

Roger Cook has made resolving the Inspired Property Group crisis the top priority for his newly-minted Commerce Minister Tony Buti, after meeting the company’s furious customers on Wednesday.

Matt Mckenzie

Worx Equipment leased yellowgoods to WA mining and civil contractors.

Administration and liquidationCommentsPremiumAdministrators to put Welshpool business up for sale

Administrators will launch an urgent sale campaign for a Welshpool-based equipment leasing business with the company’s director “confident” a rescue package can be delivered.

Matt Mckenzie

GEN Disgruntled Inspired Homes customers on the builder's Hamilton Hill Building site. (From left) Johan and Martin Rodden, Natalie Price, Neil Church and David Daff. Iain Gillespie

ConstructionCommentsPremiumInspired customers left in limbo press Cook for relief

Customers of embattled builder Inspired Property Group will ask Premier Roger Cook for urgent financial relief and a review of building laws when they meet today.

Matt Mckenzie

Construction has begun on the $13 million Long Point Brewing Co development.

Beery closeCommentsConstruction starts on $13m two-storey waterfront pub

The venue will have a craft brewery, restaurant, function space and room for 500 guests.

Rachel Fenner

Four workers and an engineer have died after an elevated road being built in Thailand collapsed. (AP PHOTO)

ConstructionFive killed as Thai road under construction collapses

At least five people have been killed and dozens injured after a road under construction in Thailand's capital Bangkok collapsed.

Staff Writers

The City of Vincent’s proposed planning changes to revitalised under-used land along the popular entertainment strip includes provision for high-rise developments of up to 16 storeys.

Commercial PropertyCommentsPremiumBeaufort Street vision proposes towers up to 16 storeys high

The City of Vincent’s proposed planning changes to revitalise under-used land along the popular entertainment strip includes provision for high-rise developments of up to 16 storeys.

Sophie Gannon

The chosen concept plan for the Heathridge Park redevelopment .

ConstructionPremiumMajor update on redevelopment of popular sporting complex

A major redevelopment of Heathridge Park is one step closer to reality.

Liam Murphy

It marks WesTrac’s second year participating in the global challenge, which was established in 2019.

MiningCommentsPremiumWesTrac on the hunt for world-leading machine operator

WA’s best equipment operators will have the chance to cement their place as a world-leading machine operator when they compete at this year’s Caterpillar Global Operator Challenge.

Cheyanne Enciso

Houses under construction in Australia

BusinessCommentsThe States winning the housing race amid crisis

Apartment approvals are growing as the country tries build 240,000 new homes per year but the devil’s in the details.

Jackson Hewett

Matakli O’Goshi Lim and Natasha Di Ciano from NXT in Canning Vale, Perth.

WritCommentsPremium‘Genius’ with ‘attitude’: NEXT TEC sues over soured contract

The contract with the State Government ended amid claims of that the ‘genius’ inventor at NXT TEC Matakli O’Goshi Lim had an ‘attitude problem’.

Kim Macdonald

Sydney developer Marprop’s Burswood development.

Commercial PropertyCommentsPremiumPerth apartment plans double with one-bed only shift

Developer appetite appears to be returning to the ailing apartment market, with plans for more than 1000 apartments in Perth projects seeking approval over the past three months.

Kim Macdonald

Opposition Leader Peter Dutton and his deputy leader Sussan Ley mention the thousands of small businesses that have become insolvent since Labor took office in May 2022 almost every time they front media.

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Federal PoliticsCommentsPremium
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Construction firms top list of small businesses going bust

Competing numbers around small businesses are at the heart of a battle for nearly 2.6 million votes as the Coalition positions itself as the voice of family enterprise in the coming election.

Katina Curtis

Some Inspired Homes customers have been waiting four years for their homes to be finished.

cook questionsCommentsPremiumInspired on tools for State while customers left in limbo

Long-suffering customers of Inspired Homes are angry the builder is working for a State-owned developer despite regulators probing lengthy delays in private projects.

Neale Prior and Jake Dietsch

Martin Rodden at his unbuilt Inspired Homes house last year. Some Inspired Homes customers have been waiting 4 years.

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Cook needs to break through the Inspired impasse

Inspired Property Group customers have been waiting four years for their homes to be finished. The deadlock has to end.

Matt Mckenzie

Matt Mckenzie

Joondalup Private Hospital general manager Steve Cohen-Jones and Joondalup Health Campus CEO Renaud Mazy on the top floor of the JPH expansion.

HealthPremiumJoondalup hospital’s $190m expansion reaches key milestone

Set to reshape healthcare in Perth’s north, Joondalup Private Hospital’s $190 million expansion has hit a significant milestone.

Liam Murphy

New statistics from HIA show 1000 migrant construction workers moved to WA in 2024 — or nearly 20 migrant tradies each week — with a further 500 applications currently being processed. 

ConstructionCommentsPremiumWA needs 35 extra tradies a week to fix housing crisis

Efforts needed to lure more foreign tradies as new research shows fewer than 20 moving to Perth from abroad each week

Kim Macdonald

Construction company Trisquare was linked to some major Perth developments.

Administration and liquidationPremiumCompany linked to high profile Perth projects hits trouble

A construction company that claims to have done work on QT Perth, Raine Square and the Old Treasury Buildings has been sent to administration.

Matt Mckenzie

Construction of the new $60 million shopping centre at the former Captain Stirling hotel site has officially began.

ConstructionCommentsPremiumWork begins on $60m shopping centre in western suburbs

Woolworths has jumped its supermarket rival by being first to ‘break ground’ and start construction of its shopping centre in Nedlands.

Harriet Flinn

Work has stopped on the Floreat SLSC building.

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Commercial PropertyCommentsPremium
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Western suburbs SLSC upgrades in limbo as builder goes bust

A multi-million dollar project to redevelop Floreat Surf Life Saving Club will likely face serious delays after the construction company tasked with the upgrade went bust.

Harriet Flinn

ABN Group managing director Dale Alcock and chief executive Andrew Roberts at the company’s headquarters

ConstructionCommentsPremiumCode red for builders as Alcock backs pausing new rules

Perth property magnate Dale Alcock has backed in the Productivity Commission’s call to pause construction code changes, after a major report revealed red tape was “deadening” the industry.

Matt Mckenzie

The latest result shows the construction division is still battling, suffering a a $26m loss as revenue slipped by $331m to $1.55b.

ConstructionCommentsLendlease back in black but warns of construction hiccups

Property giant Lendlease has limped back to the black as it tries to focus on its Australian development and investment operations after a series of costly foreign forays.

Neale Prior

Productivity Commission Chair Danielle Wood.

EconomyCommentsPremiumThousands of pages of red tape hammering builders

Australian builders are finishing half as many homes per hour as they were 30 years ago, prompting a top economic umpire to demand red tape be shredded to fix the housing crisis.

Matt Mckenzie

Nicheliving director Ronnie Michel-Elhaj. 

state politicsPremiumDodgy builders put on notice after Nicheliving investigation

‘Disgusting’ dodgy builders have been put on notice by Premier Roger Cook, after a new investigation was launched into controversial Nicheliving director Ronnie Michel-Elhaj. 

Jessica Page

SGH boss Ryan Stokes says a ‘constant focus’ on prudent capital allocation and enhanced customer service were key drivers behind the strong result.

MiningCommentsStokes takes SGH to new heights with record profit

Disciplined spending has propelled SGH to another record half-year result as its chief executive predicts there could be more blue sky ahead. 

Adrian Rauso