Tim Treadgold

Events are conspiring to shift momentum regarding a proposed east-west gas pipeline.

Low oil prices and their effect on LNG is unwelcome news for project development and jobs in WA.

OPINION: New Chinese edicts on production of electric vehicles could play out in favour of WA lithium producers.

The end of federal assistance to businesses and workers will be a pivotal point in how Australia emerges from COVID-19 lockdown.

The refusal to allow Clive Palmer into WA on public health grounds seems out of step with decisions relating to other high-profile businessmen.

OPINION: Mixed messages about the economic effects of COVID-19 make it clear that, as with the virus, the world is in uncharted territory.

Going against the grain is nothing new for iron ore magnate Andrew Forrest.

OPINION: The economic fallout of decisions made to combat COVID-19 will play out for years.

Consumer driven demand for grain-based products is good news for the farm sector.

The conditions that have slowed growth in WA’s lithium sector won’t last forever and there are some great opportunities for companies taking the long-term view.

The COVID-19 pandemic is forcing investors who have shunned Western Australian mining companies for decades (because they prefer buying shares in banks) to smarten their game or risk being left holding yield-free assets as bank dividends dry up.

OPINION: The big changes forced on the mining sector’s FIFO operations is a perfect example of how upheaval in business can present opportunities to improve when the crisis has passed.

Investors seem wary of a couple of WA stalwarts, with a lack of timely decision-making in a changing marketplace part of the problem.

Some people find transitioning from an office environment to working from home difficult, but it needn’t be.

A falling oil price is a double-edged sword for WA.

OPINION: The outlook is threatening on several fronts for a global economy connected by trade links and mutually beneficial supply chains.

Tourism is the canary in the coalmine ahead of the global economic hit expected as China slows while dealing with the coronavirus.

OPINION: Western Australia’s lithium boom, which ran out of steam last year, will not be returning soon given the nationwide slowdown in China as it battles to contain the coronavirus outbreak.

There are concerns the share market’s strength doesn’t accurately reflect the nation’s economic performance, or outlook.

OPINION: Emerging countries will need to be brought into the tent if a global reduction in carbon emissions is to be achieved.

What Christmas gave to Australian retailers, the bushfires are taking away, but there could be worse to come for shopkeepers and shopping centre owners when the latest international trends wash up here.

OPINION: WA again stands to be the beneficiary of trouble elsewhere, with local producers of lithium, gold, iron ore and hydrocarbons the likely winners.

Ultra-low interest rates are driving a new subprime crisis in the US.

OPINION: A new US meal-delivery model could make its way to Australia.

OPINION: A better year is in prospect for WA’s resources-led economy but much has to go right on the international and local fronts.

OPINION: The Westpac transactions scandal exposes its dependence, and that of the other banks, on computerised processing to replace people and cut costs.

The Scarborough gasfields appear set to be at the heart of a development versus environment showdown that will have major political implications.

OPINION: The investment opportunities offered by new energy models could change the debate over climate policy.

OPINION: As welcome as they are for borrowers, the current era of ultra-low interest rates is creating the climate for a financial crisis.

OPINION: Australia is seeking to find a delicate balance in terms of trade with a major customer, China, and its strategic alliance with the US.

OPINION: Business sectors slow to recognise the need to shift gears in the face of technological change will struggle to survive.

OPINION: Sensible debate about the cost of progressive environmental policy is missing amid the noise from politicians and green activists.