Aboriginal small business owners are being encouraged to snap up companies held by baby boomers as they look to offload assets before heading into retirement.
Infinite Blue Energy will buy the Northam Solar Farm and hopes to invest $80 million to build a green hydrogen project; while a deal for Merredin Solar Farm is progressing.
SPECIAL REPORT: One of the Barnett government's most innovative social reforms, seeking to marry hard-nosed investment bankers with not-for-profit groups, is under review.
Two of the more impressive Native Title agreements entered into nationally during 2005 took place in Western Australia, demonstrating the maturity of the Indigenous Land Use Agreement process.
