I’ve had quite a bit of correspondence in recent weeks with City of Perth councillors regarding the various developments in the central business district.
Western Australia’s skills shortage has prompted a flurry of activity by government and industry, although the state is struggling to find traction on the issue.
The federal government’s Australian Technical Colleges continue to attract criticism over claimed low enrolment levels and insufficient graduate numbers, despite strong support from the business sector.
A review of Western Australia’s vocational education and training system, undertaken earlier this year by KPMG has called for a redistribution of the Tafe sector’s infrastructure assets and an injection of further capital to improve services.
With a national investment portfolio of properties worth more than $1 billion, Primewest Management Ltd is shifting into more design and construct projects with office buildings in the CBD and at Herdsman, and a psychiatric facility in Joondalup planned.
Proponents and supporters of the $200 million Victoria Quay project have been encouraged by the results of a recent survey of residents and visitors to Fremantle.
Unique to the South West region of Western Australia, the western ringtail possum has found itself in the midst of a development boom in Busselton and Dunsborough which has government authorities and property developers chasing their tails.
Construction of one of Western Australia’s largest tourism resorts north of Perth, the Jurien Bay Beach Resort, has been delayed by 12 months because of dust management issues.
Riverside eatery Matilda Bay Restaurant has recently undergone a $2 million makeover designed to make the expansive venue a more intimate place to wine and dine, both for its existing customers and for a somewhat younger, sophisticated corporate crowd.
One of State Scene’s sharpest political contacts insists that spades always be called spades, never digging utensils. He won’t blindly fall into line by referring to things the way political spin doctors – of whom we have plenty – want them described and
This week’s visit to Perth by Chinese president Hu Jintao highlighted the important role Western Australia plays in supporting the world’s powerhouse economy.
An online lecture presentation system developed at the University of Western Australia has been sold to one of its emerging competitors, US-based software company, Anysteam Inc.
When CSIRO chief executive, Dr Geoff Garrett, visited Perth recently on the research group’s national industry roadshow, he delivered a very entertaining presentation on exponential change.
Dale Alcock and Garry Brown-Neaves have ruled out listing their successful building empire following a recently completed 20-year business plan that is designed to steer the group smoothly through their eventual retirements.
Growing Alcock Brown-Neaves Group from two building companies to more than a dozen businesses was a matter of identifying opportunities in the market and going after them as they arose, according to the firm’s managing director, Dale Alcock.
Several Perth-based listed property groups have announced solid profit results this month, with diversification across market sectors a common strategy underpinning their performance.
Watersun Property managing director Garry Garside’s only Melbourne syndicate, Clarke Street Pty Ltd, acquired its first asset last week, capping off a busy period for the Perth-based occupational physician.
Concerns are emerging about the implications of stage two of the state government’s Five Star Plus environmental initiative, even before the housing industry has implemented the first stage of the plan.
Now that Perth’s office space shortage has reached flash point, developers are pushing ahead with office developments on the city fringe to take advantage of soaring rents.
Western Australian aged-care providers in the not-for-profit sector are increasingly taking stewardship of local government aged-care facilities, as councils face more complex regulatory requirements and rising service provision costs.
It would be easy for the uninitiated to walk past Gwenael Lesle’s French bistro in Wembley and assume it was just another suburban eatery with adequate food and service for a predominantly local clientele.
Regular customers of David Coomer’s Star Anise restaurant in Shenton Park will know that the highly acclaimed chef goes to great lengths to source produce (he gets his Glenloth game pigeons flown over from Victoria to Perth).
Since about April, all of State Scene’s best informants have said that the coming federal election would be held in November; in other words, later rather than sooner.
Energy and resources sector asset services contractor PearlStreet Ltd has announced a $1.6 million net profit for the year ended 30 June 2007, it maiden profit as a listed entity.
Evans & Tate creditors today met to form a committee in an attempt to try and recoup $185 million they are owed by the Margaret River winery, although administrator Ferrier Hodgson partner Martin Jones believes the process will be difficult.
