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Australia's universities are highly competitive, especially in their pursuit of research dollars, yet some of the best research occurs when they collaborate.

As many businesses consider new ways of supporting university training in light of Western Australia’s growing skills crisis, the Fogarty Foundation is one organisation already doing something.

John Howard is one of the canniest politicians in the business and his proposed reform of industrial relations has his textbook approach written all over it.

Last week, State Scene was fortunate to sneak a look at what could become Western Australia’s non-metropolitan lower house electoral boundaries at the 2009 election.

Big fish in Perth’s small corporate pond pay a high price when they move to deeper waters.

Boutique developer MATCH has been given approval to transform Perth’s first concrete and steel structure, designed in 1927 by Oldham, Boas & Ednie-Brown, into a heritage sensitive development consisting of 30 warehouse apartments and 39 terrace houses on

Having moved out of residential property development in favour of commercial property syndication 18 months ago, Access West is currently completing its sixth commercial syndicate.

Property investors who self-manage their properties have been warned they are at greater risk of experiencing problems with tenants and exposing themselves and their assets.

As spring quietly announces its presence the Perth food community is busy changing seasons, changing menus and preparing the subtle differences of spring and summer foods.

The recent annual Qantas Wine Show of Western Australia held in Mount Barker has received rave reviews.

Don't know your single malts from your blends? Then perhaps the Whiskeys of the World Tasting at The Globe Restaurant is for you.

Western Australia’s best-cleaned sites were honoured in the 2005 Golden Service Awards, the building services industry’s premier recognition of excellence.

The planned merger of Curtin and Murdoch universities highlights the major changes facing Western Australia’s higher education sector. WA Business News convened a boardroom forum to discuss the current issues and future outlook for the state’s public universities.

Curtin University’s council and Murdoch University’s senate have been forced to defer meetings scheduled for this week to make an official decision on their merger because of delays with a merger feasibility report.

The state’s economy is showing no signs of cooling its demand for additional emplo-yment capacity, with all signs pointing to a further tightening as the skilled labour market feels the pinch of shortages across the board.

WHILE Western Australia has traditionally been one of the less expensive Australian states in which to live, recent rises in key indicators point to a closing of the cost-of-living gap.

The Health Reform Committee report of March 2004 recommended a fundamental reconfiguration of the state's health system during the next 15 years. The Government’s recent allocation of $3.6 billion with the release of the 'WA Health Clinical Services Frame

For all the lifestyle it has to offer Perth is often attacked as lacking the vibrancy and cultural diversity available in cities such as Sydney and Melbourne.

As part of the health upgrades, the State Government will invest $206 million in the redevelopment of four major country hospitals across Western Australia into regional resource centres.

Transport, population, history, education and voting trends in WA.

The in-depth economic year in review of business sectors in WA reveals some stand-out performers. Measuring the impact of these sectors and their standing in the national picture, David Gibson reports.

Perth's Technology Park got an unexpected result when it invited the commercialisation experts from Perth’s four public universities to speak at its 20th anniversary conference last week.

The importance of the business investment cycle to Western Australia’s economy cannot be stressed highly enough.

The State Government’s role in regional Western Australia was recognised in Perth this week when two of the year’s StateWest Achievement Awards were won by public sector employees working in fields that service predominantly regional areas.

Mining comprises about one fifth of Western Australia’s economy, about four times higher than for Australia as a whole.

The Australian Tourism Exchange 2005, the largest international trade show in the Southern Hemisphere, held in Perth in June, was touted as the most important event in the history of the state’s tourism industry.

Western Australia’s economic expansion over the past four years has made it the economic powerhouse of the nation.

Matt Birney’s Liberal Party manifesto announced at the weekend marks a key point in his fledging leadership.While publicity about his plan was largely overwhelmed by the news of new bombings in Bali, there were several initiatives of interest to business

Commodity prices have surged as the Chinese economy has emerged as a major consumer of resources.

History, like life in general, can be most unkind to some people. Put otherwise, it can be kinder, much kinder, to some while not so to others.

Recent multi-million dollar investments in the state’s resources sector have paid off as unprecedented growth in the past four years continues on the back of higher commodity prices.

Every speculator dreams of a 10-bagger, that legendary stock market winner that delivers a profit of 10 times the outlay.