Opinion

How are political and business decisions made to achieve short-term goals of any real benefit to society?

Perth planners could learn a lot from our neighbours to the north, in Singapore.

Climate change provokes passionate arguments from both sides, but does the evidence support claims of humans' role?

India presents opportunities Australia, and WA, must be prepared to capitalise on.

Kevin Rudd is becoming dangerously profligate in his economic policies.

WA Labor needs to act quickly to secure its future, independent from east-coast powerbrokers.

The Labor Party in WA is becoming a shell of its former self.

A new review may kick-start changes to the environmental approvals process

Looking at data from a different perspective can produce strikingly different results.

The knee-jerk response to executive bonuses is missing the real issue.

Of all people, Joel Fitzgibbon should understand the dangers of bigger government.

Politicians seem well-placed to take up lucrative careers as lobbyists after they leave parliament.

In the second of a two-part series, we analyse the value of organic business growth.

Colin Barnett has a fight on his hands if he wants tax distribution restructured.

State and federal governments can work together on labour market policy.

Peter Costello needs to polish up on his people skills if he's to lead his party, and the country.

True business innovation relies more on hard work than a flash of genius (part one of a two-part feature).

DURING the past few months, gold has been about the only game in town where investors have been able to make money as stocks rise.

A failure to invest in the good times may come back to bite ... again.

Long-term business strategies could become casualties of the downturn.

The federal Liberals may feel they've done it tough lately, but things could get a whole lot worse

Investing in 2009 will be counterintuitive – something that does not happen in the way you would expect it to.

OVER the past 20 years or so, there has clearly been a growing, but until now unrecognised, systemic failure of the modern capitalist system, culminating in the US's sup-prime mortgage crash of 2007.

There seems to be a disconnect between the price of oil and petrol's price at the bowser.

Australia has managed to avoid the excesses so prevalent elsewhere.

The economic downturn presents great opportunities for innovation.

Big companies' behaviour in tough times is often predictable, but it's just the market at work.

Rolled by her colleagues, what now for Julie Bishop's political career?

Major players face off in north-west access stoush.

Labor's state election loss last year may have changed the way the party works in WA forever.

Globally, high-capacity broadband is the infrastructure on which 21st century business will be built.

WITH Western Australia's fourth referendum on daylight saving since 1975 to be held in a few months, State Scene thought it appropriate to take a look back at parliament's disgraceful record on this question.