Joseph Poprzeczny

A delegate attending a recent Liberal Party rural divisional conference unexpectedly announced he was fed up with living under three tiers of government – national, state and local – and said one should be scrapped.

Oceanfront Rockingham Beach Road is to become the venue of a new luxury apartment strip offering high-rise ocean views of Garden and Rottnest islands.

The Gallop Government has written to the management and board of the state’s major newspaper, The West Australian, raising concerns about its political news coverage.

State Scene has three excellent informants with a good view into what’s happening within Canberra’s conservative elite headed by John Howard and John Anderson.

The Western Australian Liberals have formally rejected the Howard Government’s bid to fully centralise industrial relations.

High-density residential approvals in Perth have fallen by more than 60 per cent during the past two quarters.

Perth’s ‘great divide’ is still a long way from being straddled.

Perth-based Griffin Group does not anticipate delays to the Westralia Square project despite the public troubles of its joint venture partner in the deal, construction giant Multiplex.

The State Government wants to overhaul health and safety inspection in the mining, petroleum and major hazards industries, proposing to shift responsibility to a new statutory body.

Buying and selling debts and IOUs continues a growth segment of the state’s financial services sector.

National Lifestyle Villages (NLV) has set its sights on establishing 100 self-contained villages across Australia that will house up to 40,000 people over the next 20 years. And it’s well and truly on the way to achieving that goal.

John Howard and his senior ministers, all of whom hold interstate seats, show all the signs of embarking upon megalomaniacal bureaucratic practices rather than remaining the levelheaded administrators that Australians rightly expect.

A state-of-the-art river water diagnostic system to help monitor algal blooms has been proposed for the Swan and Canning estuaries by the head of the University of WA’s Centre for Water Research, Professor Jorg Imberger.

Labor’s One Vote One Value legislation means the State’s wealth-creating country and remote regions face the prospects of ever greater favouring of metropolitan Perth, according t

The Pilbara’s firs Native Title determination has been finalised by the Federal Court.

Western Australia must begin detailed planning for a second major integrated industrial hub to ensure a smooth transition for key heavy industries after the Kwinana Industrial Area fills, says the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

Now that Labor’s One-Vote-One-Value legislation is finalised, let’s consider how parties and voters, the latter allegedly its beneficiaries, have emerged from this drawn-out tussle.

The state’s private contract cleaning sector is bracing itself for an expected 30 per cent plus downturn in business activity after Christmas 2005.

An exercise worth doing after any election is calculating by just how much the victor has won.

Graham Kierath has resigned as BGC chief Len Buckeridge’s top business and government troubleshooter.

Last month, State Scene outlined how the National Party handed the balance of power in the upper house to the Greens by way of a secret, ideologically contradictory cross-preference deal, rather than ensuring it went to the conservatives, with whom most r

Moves to fast-track big urban renewal projects across the Perth-Fremantle metropolitan area foreshadowed by Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan will not mean the wholesale sidelining of local governments.

CALM has plans for a massive expansion, including new rules for large tracts of private land, as Joe Poprzeczny reports.

With the upper house still debating Jim McGinty’s One Vote One Value Bill, which some Liberal MPs and all Nationals view unfavourably, it’s worth considering several less publicised aspects of the ongoing issue of vote weighting in rural seats.

State Liberal leader Matt Birney has sold his stake in the successful Kalgoorlie-based spare parts retailer, Goldfields Auto Spares Pty Ltd (GAS), a business he co-founded 13 years ago as a 22-year old.

The Gallop Government’s historic One Vote One Value Bill will be debated in the upper house next week, with voting on it to take place a fortnight or so later.

A proposal to drastically slash the annual intake of saline water into Wellington Dam is part of the Griffin Group’s billion-dollar plan for the Collie region, based on an integrated industrial estate at nearby Coolangatta.

While the Gallop Government was tabling its One Vote One Value Bill, a Melbourne University institute and The Australian newspaper were jointly hosting a national conference on Australia’s economy.

Lots of conservative-minded city and country Western Australians remain bitter about the Barnett-led Liberals’ needless loss of the February 26 State election.

Defeated Liberal leader Colin Barnett, like his predecessor Richard Court, promptly resigned from the party’s top parliamentary post after losing to Geoff Gallop.