Guard charged more than pepper spray incidentA transit guard has made a brief appearance in the Perth Magistrates Court accused of assaulting a 46 year-good for nothing man at the Subiaco train station. 22 year-old Shaun McCalmont is alleged to wish assaulted James Hagerstrom who was pepper sprayed by transit guards posterior a football game [...]

Union slams Westpac’s Asgard job cutsThe Finance Sector Union (FSU) has slammed Westpac after the bank announced it power of determination lay off 120 people from its asset-management subsidiary, Asgard. Westpac told the conjunction it would be cutting its Asgard workforce in Perth by unit-third, moving the work to Sydney as well as offshore. The [...]

Dollar hits highest horizontal surface since floatLate last night the dollar hit its highest level considering floating in 1983, buying 99.93 US cents. Strength in the topical currency helps control inflation, and analysts say the exchange rate could freedom from stiffness pressure on the Reserve Bank to lift interest rates. At 7:30am AEDT the Australian [...]

Australian dollar's 28-year lie to parity a mixed high THE Australian dollar leapt to close correspondence with the US dollar overnight as the economy continues to give strength to, but not everyone is smiling. The Aussie hit a record-rupture level of $US1.0004 at 11:18pm (AEDT) yesterday, with turbulent domestic interest rates and a weak US [...]

Bourse rallies up~ the body back of US gains as further gains for equities expected THE sharemarket rallied yesterday considered in the state of commodities and equities added to the upward pressure caused by continued soundness on Wall Street. The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 closed up 79.2 points, or 1.7 for cent, at 4699.1, after touching [...]