Opinion

As the slowdown in mining and exploration starts to bite across mining and related industries, company executives are faced with a choice of tightening their belts or letting them out.

Recent data packaged up by a number of commentators suggest that massive levels of resources investment is now over and tough times lie ahead for Western Australia.

The capital strike hitting the resources sector risks doing long-term damage to the industry’s growth prospects.

Investors reacted positively to news today that iron ore miner Gindalbie Metals had successfully restructured its finances, but will be reacting with less enthusiasm to the outlook for iron ore prices from Gindalbie’s biggest shareholder.

Does the ailing Australian car industry offer us the chance to fix the Commonwealth Grants process and make the GST allocations fairer?

A change at the top is the only way Labor can hope to lay a glove on the opposition.

What does the Chinese leadership’s tough line on the West mean for Australian business?

The rapid change to a deflating economy will be difficult for some, but offer opportunities for others.

Business would be the loser under changes proposed to IR laws.

Solving the city’s congestion problems may require the public to start paying the true cost of its travels.

Your Twitter strategy should be focused around what will achieve the best results for your customers.

Companies are like living organisms that need to adapt to survive.

The Fair Work Commission’s annual wage review has highlighted the limitations of centralised wage fixing.

CHINA slashed its demand for iron ore exactly a year ago, triggering a collapse in the share prices of Australian mining companies.

Time’s running out for the US, in particular, to sort out its debt issues.

In the early days of map-making, cartographers filled uncharted waters with images of terrifying mythical beasts; highlighting the dangers of the unknown.

The degree to which we, in Australia, control our economic destiny is exaggerated.

Promoting clusters where Australian businesses have established a clear advantage is preferable to a central policy push.

For best results it pays to tailor your message for each customer.

Small business owners are used to ‘doing it all’, but sometimes a bit of independent advice can be the difference between success and failure.

Car manufacturers and LNG producers have a lot more in common that may first appear to be the case.

It's not easy seeing economic blue sky when the air is filled with grey clouds, but one well-connected bank reckons we’re being too gloomy in Western Australia and that the ‘new normal’ will be much better than the ‘old normal’.

Julia Gillard is right to crack down on the advertising of gambling odds during sporting contests, but the prime minister's political opportunism masks her failure to have a policy on gambling that

THE resources sector has lost an experienced advocate, and the state government a steady hand, with the retirement of the former mines and petroleum minister Norman Moore after a 36-year career in

With debt getting out of hand, maybe it’s time we rethink how borrowing decisions are made at a national level, and by whom.

It’s so easy to forget that public debt has caused considerable strife for Australia.

WHAT do you call a person who makes the same mistake year after year? ‘Fool’ is one suggestion, and it seems the same description certainly applies to governments.

The relationship between the high $A and interest rates has a way to run.

What lessons can we learn from wine sector that we can apply to industry development in this state?The wine sector has intrigued me as a business journalist for the past two decades.

HAVE you ever had an employee who one day just checks out? Their motivation drops off, they start disrupting the team and their productivity falls to an all-time low. 

Many salespeople spend too much time explaining their product and not enough time selling it.

A tax rise is not tax reform, but an increase in the GST rate or a widening of its base could be part of a worthwhile package.