The WA Liberal Party has made more from donations this financial year than WA Labor, but levies and union fees have the latter’s coffers well ahead in the lead up to the state election.

Wesfarmers will sell gas supplier Coregas to a subsidiary of Japanese conglomerate Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation for $770 million, subject to ACCC and FIRB approval.

The country’s resource and energy export earnings are expected to drop to $372 billion in the 2024-25 financial year, the latest quarterly results show.

WA’s large-format retail sector is growing amid positive demographic and economic trends.

Big energy ‘distorts market’