Opinion

The Abbott government needs to acknowledge its mistakes if it is to mount a comeback in the polls, and win the 2016 election.

Many small business owners are too busy getting their hands dirty in the day-to-day operations to take a longer-term strategic view.

Booking a lunch appointment with a prospective customer is the first step; doing it right takes a bit more work.

Elections do at least allow the people to choose the kind of economy they want to live in.

Growing the size of the cake, rather than squabbling over the current morsels, should have been the focus of the recent National Reform Summit.

The state’s fashion industry is in a good place as its penchant for a creative approach to business opens opportunities.

Two years on from Tony Abbott's decisive win over Labor, voters are puzzled.

Governments must not only do the right thing, they must be seen to be doing the right thing.

Tipping a commodity price recovery that will boost Western Australia’s economy is a game for the brave or the foolish; and while Colin Barnett came close to being one or the other yesterday, he was actually just being premature.

This week REIWA members reported the total number of sales are up again to 708, an increase of 5 per cent on the previous week.

A new biography highlights the importance of Bob Santamaria to the Australian political landscape.

Transfer duty, or stamp duty, as it was known until 2008, is one of the most inefficient, distortive and poorly targeted taxes in Australia.

If you want to improve the way you sell, take note of how, and what, you buy.

We are at the right place at the right time, we just haven’t noticed.

Despite the pain being felt by many small investors, the Chinese-led stock market falls of the past week was a long-overdue correction.

There’s a feeling among those in WA’s startup community that their time may have finally arrived.

The Reserve Bank is expected to look through recent market turmoil and keep the cash rate unchanged for the foreseeable future.

Colin Barnett has set the scene for an industrial stoush with his proposed changes to Sunday penalty rates.

If ever Western Australia is to have another slogan on vehicle number plates, then the favourite has to be a return to the short-lived ‘Golden State’ catchphrase.

reiwa.com rental listing data for the overall market for the week ending 25 August 2015 totalled 8,178.

I met my first left-wingers not long after I’d left the bush to attend university in Perth. The experience was much as I’d been told to expect.

If you want to improve your productive capacity, then take some more downturn to recharge your batteries.

‘Value’ is something you are offering the customer, not what you can get out of a sale.

In my previous column here I examined the history behind the fiasco around the Perth Freight Link, with nearly 20 years of poor policy decisions restricting Fremantle’s freedom as a port because of below-standard transport connections.

Could the contrasting fortunes of Atlas and Elders signal the start of a rural revival?

We need successful big companies, but we also need to recognise they started as smaller ones.

All growth comes with pain, but it’s especially acute when anticipated development is unnecessarily restricted.

Not only did state funding for housing in the Pilbara come too late, when it did flow it was poorly targeted.

Is it greed, ignorance or stupidity that prevents bankers from knowing when they have overstepped a moral and ethical boundary, if not a legal one?

reiwa.com listings for sales data for the overall market for the week ending 18 August 2015 totalled 14,065.

Tony Abbott has promised a root and branch overhaul of politicians’ travel entitlements; let’s hope he is true to his word.

Securing Australia’s economic future will require a strong focus on harnessing the nation’s energy resources and further developing the global connections that provide pathways to both imports and exports. This is especially true in Western Australia, where energy is emerging as a sector of key state economic importance.