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The decision to list and source capital has as much to do with the project as it does with the market in which the listing or raising is being considered.

The ousting of Matt Birney was a disappointing moment from my point of view.

As this month’s 31 warm-to-hot days slowly rolled by, one recurring thought was that March 2006 was likely to go down in the state’s political annals as the worst that WA’s two then opposition leaders, Kim Beazley and Matt Birney, were likely to share.

Australia’s two-speed economy, which has the resource-rich states of Western Australia and Queensland, dramatically outperforming the southern manufacturing states, has just got w

Dennis Yagmich is able to trace grape growing and wine production in his family as far back as the 15th century.

Commercial office rents in Subiaco are said to be matching, and in some cases rivaling, rents for prime space in West Perth as businesses line up to get a piece of the Subiaco lifestyle.

Property industry representatives remain skeptical of any real benefits to homebuyers as a result of the State Government’s tax reform plans announced last week.

The Taste of the Valley Festival held every April in the Swan Valley brings together all of the best bits of the region’s festival held throughout the year. It’s not too big, not too short and often features some very unique events.

Iconic Western Australian reticulation and water solutions brand Hugall & Hoile Ltd faces a difficult 2006 in the wake of a number of factors that have adversely impacted the performance of the business.

Financial services reform has contributed to a changing landscape for corporate superannuation in WA.

Australia is trying to claw its way back into the global resources capital markets but it may already be too late.

Subiaco-based property asset manager Wentworth Mutual Ltd has raised $20 million capital, mainly to reduce borrowings against conditionally secured property purchases that are yet to settle.

Subiaco-based property asset manager Wentworth Mutual Ltd has raised $20 million capital, mainly to reduce borrowings against conditionally secured property purchases that are yet to settle.

Many accountants and lawyers aspire to leave the big firms and set up a boutique practice but recently there have been some notable moves in the opposite direction.

A last-minute change of venue did nothing to quell the anticipation of the 900-strong crowd that turned up in Fremantle earlier this month for Western Australia’s biggest celebration of young business.

A handful of the 40 winners were also awarded special prizes by some of the organisations involved at the founding of the WA Business News 40under40 Awards.

Western Australia is in the grips of amber fever, with three new breweries in the pipeline set to cash in on the growing consumer market for premium boutique beer.

Hot on the heels of Perth’s residential land grab are industrial land and property buyers snapping up land and office-warehouse developments in the burgeoning suburbs of Wangara, Balcatta, Malaga and East Rockingham.

Hot on the heels of Perth’s residential land grab are industrial land and property buyers snapping up land and office-warehouse developments in the burgeoning suburbs of Wangara, Balcatta, Malaga and East Rockingham.

Are the owners of the Perth Convention Exhibition Centre finding out something they should have known from the start? That running such a business is little tougher than most other infrastructure markets?

Federal treasurer Peter Costello has convened a two-man inquiry into Australia’s tax burden and how it lines-up against so-called “comparable countries”.

The ‘what if’ question posed last week is entertaining people in places far higher than that occupied by Briefcase.

Some of Perth’s most seasoned diners have circled the wagons and are refusing to let Fremantle’s Roma Restaurant go quietly into the night.

The precious black truffles grown by the Wine and Truffle Company in Manjimup are prized for the similarities to the black Perigord Truffles of France.

Mack Hall and Associates are auctioning five rare green title lots on-site at North Fremantle on March 25.

The Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) has signed a new management deal with Perth-based company Proteomics International.

Perth-based telco company Wavenet has announced a new $1.25 million sales order for the supply of 10,000 Mobitex modems to an existing USA customer.

Roy Weston CEO Geoff Baldwin has stood down from the position he has held for five years and has passed on the reigns to the group’s current leading franchisee, Shane Kempton.

Tributes have flowed in from business and the community leaders following the death earlier this week of 73-year-old Perth property tycoon Bill Wyllie after a long battle with cancer.

Bill Wyllie is one of Western Aust-ralia’s success stories, perhaps most notably because we got him back.

Let’s be frank about the performance of the second Gallop Government in its first year, 2005; it was lacklustre.

Economists are born pessimists. That’s why some of them are warning that the boom times being generated by China’s demand for commodities will not last.