Opinion

In this Business News podcast Dan Wilkie and Mark Beyer discuss the state budget, fees and charges, skilled migration, the outlook for Perth property, new mining projects, the roadhouse blues, and indigenous business.

OPINION: Everyday Aussies feel gypped when big business doesn't seem to pay its ‘fair' share of the tax burden, which may help explain the attraction of the cash economy.

OPINION: A slide in the value of the $A against the greenback could be a positive for gold.

OPINION: The government seems to be having a bet each way in terms of privatising its revenue-generating assets.

OPINION: The formation of the Put Western Australia First Party has raised the stakes over tax reform, with the Liberals and Labor on notice that Senate seats may come under threat unless something tangible is done to resolve the GST impasse.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss resources contracts, unemployment, solar power, BHP, CEO sleepout and apartment developments.

Sales activity expanded over the week, with Reiwa members reporting an increase in weekly sales to 604.

OPINION: The startup sector is rife with opportunities for young women dissatisfied with the corporate career ladder.

OPINION: Western Australia has always been different to the rest of the nation, and not often to its advantage, as the ongoing dispute over the GST demonstrates.

OPINION: If you want to know how good you really are, be your own customer and find out.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the Access Economics report, mining development activity, WA's civil infrastructure projects …. and BN's new CEO.

OPINION: The boom-bust economy is a function of the business sector's behavioural patterns interacting with the economic cycle.

OPINION: More fluid, transportable working arrangements are finding their echo in the domiciles of a growing number of independent professionals.

OPINION: Rural exports are on an upward curve, which is good news for the bush and investors in the agribusiness sector.

OPINION: If a problem is complex, don't try a simple solution, and maybe hand out a teddy or two, Perth author Paul Culmsee says.

OPINION: While good relations between government and the private sector are important, Mark McGowan will be keen to avoid being seen as too close to business.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Dan Wilkie discuss builder collapses, Wesfarmers leadership, CEO salaries, distilleries and breweries.

OPINION: Sales activity was up over the week, with Reiwa members reporting an increase in weekly sales to 592.

OPINION: That the federal government has gone missing after previously stating enthusiastic support for the tech sector is a massive failure of vision.

OPINION: More does not always mean better. This fact of life, told by generations of mothers to their children, is something Australia's banks are discovering as they fight to defend their handsome profits from the latest tax raid.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Dan Wilkie discuss Forrest's donation, Midland Gate expansion, investing in man caves and ICT for small business.

OPINION: Australia is becoming increasingly vulnerable to global, and local, economic shocks.

OPINION: Building relationships is a key element in the process of securing a strong portfolio of sales.

OPINION: A failure to stick to their core competencies has led to significant disruption for businesses and organisations economy-wide.

OPINION: Picking on banks might be populist, but it is a very risky proposition.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Dan Wilkie discuss the Officeworks IPO, the WA economy, Diploma Group, and philanthropy and giving.

OPINION: If Rio and BHP thought their political troubles ended when Brendon Grylls lost his seat at the recent election, they had better think again.

OPINION: Sales activity contracted over the week, with Reiwa members reporting a decrease in weekly sales to 555. The overall 14 per cent fall in weekly sales is attributed to a 17 per cent decrease in sales for houses and a 23 per cent decrease in unit sales, despite a 17 per cent increase in vacant land sales over the week.

OPINION: Held at Spacecubed earlier this month, Perth's 10th Startup Weekend brought together some of the brightest minds in startup tech.

OPINION: Iron ore miners Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart, Western Australia's two richest people, are taking a different approach to growing their other major business interest – beef production.

In this Business News podcast Mark Pownall and Charlie Gunningham discuss the Bank levy, Perth's Lord Mayor, international property investors and WA's wine sector.

OPINION: The federal government's recently announced Productivity Commission review of GST sharing among the states is good news for Western Australia, but the state government should be realistic about the outcome.