A recent Grattan Institute report on the east coast gas market has further fuelled debate in Western Australia over the merits or otherwise of the gas reservation policy.
Editor Mark Beyer and reporter Dan Wilkie join James Lush to discuss: the Wealth Creators, an updated listing of WA’s richest company directors; Kerry Stokes, the subject of two biographies; land s
In the first of four extracts from Peter Kennedy’s recently released book, Tales from Boom Town, the author looks at the first WA Inc deal and the introduction of fly in, fly out mining in WA.
The excitement of increased activity in recent weeks has seen more vendors bring property to the market with listings jumping by a further 490 or 4% this week to 11,598, the highest level since mid-July 2012.
A second weekly increase in reported activity signals the seasonal lift in the market in October is underway which is also reflected in a healthy rise in listings.
The youth of each successive generation cringe when their elders yearn for ‘the good old days’, but there’s a real danger technology is robbing us of some vital skills.
Wide-open spaces, spectacular coastal cliffs and even a spot of golf on the Nullarbor are some of the highlights from the drive across Australia back to Perth.
In this week's Podcast, Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer join James Lush to discuss urban infill, the state's budget, the Premier's criticism of BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, the state's first schools PPP and our updated listing of WA's biggest exporters.
Karl Simich and Mark Bennett are justifiably annoyed at having the companies they run added to an investment blacklist; but behind their frustration there is an enormously serious issue for every member of a superannuation fund – and that, in theory, is every working and recently retired Australian.
How would you go at your job if you had to pay someone else's mortgage off before you received any income? Would that be an incentive to turn up to work?
