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SPECIAL REPORT: A small group of ministers and backroom advisers close to Mark McGowan will set the agenda for the new state government.

It's been a great month for Perth-based women on ASX100 companies.

Rio Tinto's Zara Fisher has received a scholarship from Chief Executive Women to attend a prestigious management course in France.

As part of its series of interviews with top WA business leaders, Business News joined Broadspectrum chairman and Wesfarmers board member Diane Smith-Gander for lunch at the newly opened Julio's restaurant in West Perth. A champion of gender equity, Ms Smith-Gander shared her thoughts on topics including the WA economy, her use of Twitter, and work-life balance.

Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial has begun overhauling the Broadspectrum board as its takeover of the detention centre operator nears completion, with Diane Smith-Gander to remain as chair.

Broadspectrum shares have surged more than 30 per cent after the detention centre operator recommended the $769 million takeover bid it had previously rejected.

Broadspectrum has urged shareholders to reject an increased takeover offer from Spanish suitor Ferrovial that values the company at $769 million.

SPECIAL REPORT: Business News CEO and online entrepreneur, Charlie Gunningham, analyses the social media influence of the political and business elite.

SPECIAL REPORT: The number of women serving on company boards is slowly one the rise, but it's still rare to see a female take the chair, judging by Business News's analysis of Western Australian company directors.

Broadspectrum's chair says she has been shocked by personal attacks on her arising from her company's involvement in asylum-seeker detention centres in Nauru and on Manus Island.

Diane Smith-Gander has been appointed as the chairwoman of Safe Work Australia.

A planned $692 million takeover of Broadspectrum hangs in the balance amid uncertainty about its federal government contract.

Broadspectrum has resoundingly urged shareholders to reject the $692 million takeover offer from Spanish company Ferrovial, saying it significantly undervalues the business.

Spanish infrastructure giant Ferrovial has announced a $715 million takeover bid for Australian contractor Broadspectrum, which was formerly known as Transfield Services.

When BHP Billiton was in the process of establishing its coal and base metals offshoot, South32, a key factor for many who decided to join the new business was their desire to work with its chief executive, Graham Kerr.

The new owner of Perth's professional women's basketball team has set the agenda for gender equality in professional sports.

Top Western Australian publicly listed companies with fewer women on boards than the national average may get the boost they need following the launch of a new club.

Leaders from more than a dozen businesses in Western Australia have come together with a “great sense of urgency” to address issues of female inequality in the workplace, according to Diane Smith-Gander.

Peter Prendiville and Howard Cearns will continue as Tourism WA chair and deputy chair respectively for another three year term, Tourism Minister Kim Hames announced today.

WA business is well positioned to bring forward a new era of research and development in technology, but hurdles remain.

Business News shines a light on four businesses operating in WA that have achieved the highest level of national recognition for increasing opportunities for indigenous Australians.

Michael Chaney's return to Wesfarmers confirms his standing as the most influential company director in WA. Click through to see our listing of the 12 Most Influential company directors in WA.

Only four out of Western Australia's top 20 companies currently meet a gender target set by the Australian Institute of Company Directors, which wants women to fill 30 per cent of board positions on S&P/ASX 200 companies within three years.

Independent schools across the state are benefiting from the experience some of Perth's most prominent business leaders have brought to their boards, providing greater diversity and structure to the decision-making process.

One of three independent directors on the board of grain grower cooperative CBH Group, Samantha Tough, has resigned today after reported divisions among its directors.

Three senior Western Australian mining executives have been named among 16 recipients of Chief Executive Women's $250,000 scholarship program.

Leading non-executive director Diane Smith-Gander has said a shake-out of the iron ore sector is almost unavoidable, while speaking at today's Business News Success & Leadership Series breakfast.

SPECIAL REPORT: Power and influence in WA is adjusting to a new order after the boom.

Diane Smith-Gander's will to win didn't disappear when she stopped playing top-flight basketball.

Transfield Services chairman Tony Shepherd will be replaced by current director Diane Smith-Gander when Mr Shepherd retires in October.

The significant issue of female representation in the boards of Australia's companies has been pushed to the background amid the rhetoric of the gender wars being waged in Canberra.

Wesfarmers' inexorable shift from its Western Australian roots has continued with the announcement this week that Jennifer Westacott will join its board, ensuring that the Perth-headquartered congl

This year's candidates again proved what a wealth of talent we have in WA.

Prendiville chairs Tourism WA

Sandalford Wines' Peter Prendiville has been welcomed as the new chairman of Tourism Western Australia.

Eva Skira says a career as a professional director does not suit everyone, but it has worked well for her since she moved to Perth nearly 20 years ago.

PERTH'S legions of amateur cyclists will be able to qualify at home for the masters World Cycling Tour thanks to some local entrepreneurs who have won the right for a new event to be held in April.

The role of women in business has been placed firmly on the agenda during the past 12 months, but is the conversation really necessary?

GESB recruits Langoulant, Nance