Opinion

Political autobiographies, memoirs and authorised biographies are invariably highly selective products and can therefore be quite misleading, by deliberate omission if nothing else.

I had to get coffees for group of people at work last week, and I couldn't help seeing of it as a great example of how the world has changed.

WA Business News invited some of Western Australia's top architects and planners to discuss Perth's development in a boardroom forum last month.

The oil market includes all types of crude oil, condensate, natural gas liquids, oil recovered from shale and oil sands, and now, increasingly, biofuels.

State Scene highlights Australia's first Iraqi affair because it implicates Mr Whitlam just like the Iraqi-AWB Affair implicates Mr Howard; two PMs who have a conga-line of fans and gloating admire

Tenacity and perseverance are words that we often associate with battlers – those we admire, who get through life despite the odds.

Four years ago, WA Business News started writing about the shortages of skilled labour that had emerged in economic hot spots such as engineering and mineral exploration.

Talk about trying to overfill an already overflowing ten-gallon bucket.

LAST week’s state budget was exactly what you’d expect from a pre-election government in a very strong electoral position, picking a few winners and hoping to make positive headlines.

BRIEFCASE, having recently returned from a visit to the land of the free, has identified the source of a possible new financial scandal in the US, which holds the potential to rock the market in th

I WAS in Houston last week at the annual Offshore Technology Conference, touted as the world’s largest gathering of oil and gas professionals.

Watching state Liberal leader Troy Buswell become enmeshed in a scandal of his own making made me question what it is we really want from our political leaders.

I’ve been on the road this week but still managed to keep up with the news.

Some key power brokers in both major political parties have apparently been heard using the term ‘new chums’.

Last week’s WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd extraordinary general meeting was one of those great occasions few get to see until retirement age, if a quick scan of the 800 or so attendees was anything to go by.

Well, it’s happened – Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has begun using that ‘M’ word, proof positive he’s heading down a well-worn road.

WORLD War I commenced during the first week of August 1914, nearly nine months before an Australian and New Zealand amphibious force landed on an isolated Turkish beach.

The biggest talking point in Australia during the past week has, not surprisingly, been Kevin Rudd’s talkfest, the Australia 2020 summit in Canberra.

Are the energy market issues of Western Australia about to be solved by the market?

The Rudd government hasn’t exactly gotten off to flash start in the foreign relations area.

Banks now are a lot different than the bad old days, when heavy regulation made the practice of lending money a very one-sided affair.

The collapse of Melbourne stockbroking outfit, Opes Prime, and its ripple effect this week in Western Australia will no doubt have repercussions.

Managing risk in the financial sector  

A question the Liberal Party’s national leadership – Brendan Nelson and Julie Bishop, primarily – should promptly ask is, what they hope to accomplish by merging with the Nationals, as some have suggested.

The wife of Kevin Rudd’s chief of staff, David Epstein, is to run the Canberra office of major lobbying concern, Government Relations Australia (GRA), which also operates in Western Australia.

You don’t have to be born here to be accepted.

Look local for ideas

The impending mutualisation of GESB, the Government Employees Superannuation Board, has allowed me to dig into a few areas that I haven’t touched before.

Those  unfamiliar with the Slavic languages will need to have the phrase; “Kto Kogo?” translated and explained.

A couple of weeks ago, a leading Perth business person rang me with some views on the WA Newspapers Holdings Ltd stoush between the existing board and Kerry Stokes’ Seven Network Ltd.

With most in-the-know political pundits confident the next state election will be held this December, it’s time to begin considering some possible outcomes.

It’s evident we’re well into a period best described as the ‘era of Liberal demise’. Although it started at least as early as 1996 – when then prime minister John Howard shamelessly dumped his party’s longstanding federalist commitment and adopted Labor’