Special Reports

WITH or without her flamboyant hairstyle, Patti Chong still makes an impact. The general counsel for the Corruption and Crime Commission is well known for her colourful clothes and personality, and so it came as no surprise that after hearing a radio

OFTEN those who have experienced tragedy first hand are the most passionate and dedicated when it comes to committing their time, energy and money to charitable causes.

WESTERN Australia's current trading hours regime is an impost to business, according to several big names in the State's retail landscape.

WESFARMERS chief Michael Chaney describes Joe Boros as one of the country's best retailers.

RAY Della-Polina sold his farm businesses to move to the ‘big smoke' in his 20s and bought into a Perth small-parts business called Marlows.

ROBYN Ahern took a job in the family business, department store Aherns, to earn some money to finance a bit of overseas travel.

IT may seem a simple, or rather obvious, business strategy but Patrick Stephenson puts much of his success with the Liberty Liquors chain down to communication and marketing.

MUCH of the credit for the recent success of one of Australia's biggest retailers, Woolworths, is given to Reg Clairs, who climbed the retail ranks all the way from retail trainee to chief executive.

MURDOCH University post-graduate studies program chair and University of Western Australia PhD student, Grant Robertson, believes shopping for groceries on the Internet will become common-place in

AN ability to deliver the right products in the right environment is an essential component in the ever-competitive retail world.

GROWING demand for mineral sands is allowing Iluka to secure much-needed price increases.

MIKE Folwell returned to his home town of Perth in 2002 after a 25-year absence, boasting an impressive CV and a reputation for getting the job done.

MIKE Folwell is an achiever, and while his style may not be flamboyant, it's very effective.

In Western Australia's most comprehensive executive salary survey, Mark Beyer looks behind the headline numbers to find the State's best value chief executives.

Two diseases that threatened to devastate the State's $200 million-a-year lupin industry have been stalled, thanks to the work of Department of Agriculture molecular geneticist Hu

The State Government broke new ground this year when it recruited Dr Neale Fong to head its health reform taskforce on a salary package worth up to $53

Getting Western Australia more active may not seem like the easiest job in the world but it is one the Find Thirty Campaign team took on with a vengean

Western Australia's top public sector staff and teams have been honoured at this year's StateWest Achievement Awards. Noel Dyson reports.

Share option schemes made a big difference to the total remuneration of more than 20 chief executives last year.

Prime Minister John Howard has highlighted skills shortages as one of the Federal Government's top priorities for its new term.

Incentives to attract and retain staff for fly-in fly-out mining operations have moved well beyond simply offering sizeable pay packets.

One of the hottest topics at the skills shortage forum was the negative attitude of students and parents towards traditional trades such as metalwork and mechanics.

St John of God Healthcare national chief executive Dr Michael Stanford believes failure to take account of social trends has contributed to the current skills shortage.

The traditional apprentice system, which has undergone little change for several decades, needs to be modernised and become more flexible, industry representatives told the skills shortage forum.

Most of the participants in the skills shortage forum agreed that bringing skilled workers into Australia from overseas was an essential part of the solution.

With the shortage of skilled labour arguably the biggest issue facing Western Australian business, WA Business News hosted a forum to seek solutions. Mark Beyer reports.

When I first embarked on this project my expectations were totally different from what I eventually discovered.

The City of Perth might oversee the heart of corporate Western Australia, but business is under-represented on its governing council. Mark Pownall reports that many believe the State Government should recognise the unique needs of our CBD.