MUCKINBUDIN wheat farmer Allan Watson and Morawa wheat farmer Chris Moffet should have a lot in common.
But their common interest in the future of WA's grains industry is divided by their off-farm roles.
DROUGHT conditions throughout much of Australia have not stopped farmers from dipping into their pockets to purchase big-ticket tractors and combine harvesters.
ELEVEN years ago, a small group of WA farmers shook up the State's fertiliser market when they started undercutting the big players with cheap imports.
ONE week after surviving a threatened Aliquot Asset Management boardroom spill, Michael Perrott and Antony Rigoll have avoided a similar battle with shareholders at Phosphate Resources Limited by stepping down as directors.
PART of the folklore of Christmas Island revolves around the fire that swept through the union offices not long after the death of union secretary Gordon Bennett.
IT has been a fascinating year at Christmas Island company Phosphate Resources Limited, which has been embroiled in a shareholder squabble since Como-based Asset Backed Holdings entered the company's register in 2002 and its directors...
Kuppa2 in Claremont has become one of Perth's favourite dining spots and its contemporary food, wine and style have its roots in Tom Lapping's Kuppa restaurant, located in Bangkok.
Nikki Griffiths has experienced the hardship of business early in her career and, at 26, has over-come adversity to create a successful graphic design operation.
Dr Paul Watt's research discoveries at the Telethon Institute for Child Health Research laboratories have resulted in the formation of the institute's first spin-off company, Phylog
OVER the past two years, Western Australian companies have been awarded contracts worth more than $1.7 billion on big mining and resource processing projects.
After five years at Telstra, where she worked her way up to the position of senior corporate account executive, managing one of Telstra's top accounts, Deanne Pederson jumped ship a
Since losing his mother and sister in a car accident at just seven years of age, Paul Hennessy has developed a desire to live life to its full and a tenacity to overcome adversity.
For the past 15 years Professor Duane Varan has balanced a lecturing career in both Perth and the US with consultancy work for the A-list in world commerce.
In 1985 Andrew Ford and his business partner, Kyle Doonan, decided to open a small air-conditioning business. The pair used second-hand vans and second-hand tools.
Armed with a single power saw, nail bag, some borrowed materials and plenty of ambition, registered builder Pedro Turibaka began work on his first construction site, a small East Pe