Cutting taxes, improving infrastructure and tackling the skills crisis should be the top priorities for the Carpenter government, a survey of Western Australian business leaders by WA Business News has found.
Business leaders in Western Australia have applauded Premier Alan Carpenter’s decision to establish a science and innovation ministry, which has been handed to up and coming minister, Francis Logan.
A decisive shift in the Labor Party’s Western Australian factions has played a key role in dictating the momentous political changes of the past month.
Perth’s CBD office vacancy rate has plummeted to 5.8 per cent, effectively signalling a full office market, and with no major new supply under construction, the tight office environment is expected to continue for at least two more years.
Mandurah’s strong growth has continued with the completion of stage one of the $40 million Seashells Mandurah Resort and settlement pending on the first 79 apartments.
It’s a little hard to believe but Perth is half way through summer. And while the comparatively cool weather may have caught some venues unaware, the timing and temperature are perfect for the Swan Valley’s Midsummer Feast.
Wentworth Mutual Ltd's strategy to expand is gaining momentum with the listed property manager acquiring the property management business of Australian Finance Group Ltd.
Australia’s great grape glut is causing wine producers no end of pain. But in Western Australia there seems to be a variation emerging on that theme – the great grape shortage.
The Commodore Hotel on Hay Street has continued its multi-million dollar renovation with the completion of a new restaurant – the Armada Bar and Grill.
Two Perth office buildings may soon be placed on the market, with unit holders in the May Holman Centre and 111 St Georges Terrace (formerly the AXA building) being asked to vote on their stake in the buildings’ future.
A market increase in the number of commercial sales conducted off-market is a noticeable feature of the recent profusion of activity in this sector of the market.
Hossean Pourzand has quietly become one of the CBD’s biggest individual office owners, preferr-ing to keep his business activities below the radar but acquiring assets over the ye
Shares in BankWest, the Perth-based regional bank which was bought by Bank of Scotland for $A900 million last year, made a strong debut on the Australian stock market, going to an immediate 22 per
Western Australia’s wine industry rests uncomfortably on the horns of a dilemma – more grapes than its wine production can use. The quest for new markets and better quality to soak up the excess is on.
The big end of Western Australia’s wine industry has changed dramatically in the past year or so, reflecting the state’s domination by mid-sized producers who often suffer most when the squeeze is on.
The wine industry’s woes are not self-inflicted and are an important example of what happens when government decisions start distorting business in an unhealthy way.
Qantas’ stunning $20 billion order for up to 115 Boeing 787s has the potential to revolutionise travel to and from Western Australia by the end of this decade.
There is nothing quite like the intimate first class in the nose of the 747 or the delightful ‘private jet’ feeling of business class in the upper deck on the ‘queen of the skies’.
Innovation is seen as the driver of Western Australia’s long-term growth and prosperity, but questions remain about the best way to achieve outcomes to benefit all players, private and public, in an increasingly competitive environment.
Getting out of the city on the weekend to breathe the fresh country air, take in the wide open spaces, experience the charm of a natural environment and to enjoy good old country hospitality is a perfect way to recharge the batteries.
It’s no news in academic ranks that the Cooperative Research Centres funding game is a highly competitive one, requiring lots of old-fashioned lobbying.
One of former premier Geoff Gallop’s legacies will be his 2002 ‘InnovateWA’ policy, aimed at reversing the decline in the state’s research and development effort.
When European settlers arrived in Australia to colonise this country, they brought with them the foods and food production methods that had sustained the British Empire.
Tucked away in Alcoa’s Kwinana alumina refinery complex, just south of Perth, is the largest refining research and development group in the Western world.
There is no shortage of options and pathways for innovative individuals and businesses seeking government financial backing and support for their activities.
