Kalgoorlie MLA Matt Birney’s unwavering confidence has propelled him to leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party at the relatively young age of 35.
With Western Australia’s strong economy continuing to drive demand for industrial land, owner occupiers and investors are securing industrial land as fast as it is being supplied.
Although LandCorp is charged with supplying industrial land, purchasers are making substantial profits through sales, subdivision and increasing rents.
The 2005 vintage will be remembered as one of real highs and some lows, according to Western Australian Wine Industry Association president John Griffiths.
THE commercialisation of a water purification technology by Perth-based Water Sciences International (WSI) could have a major impact on the Swan River amid other, wide-ranging applications.
Western Australia has a generation of highly driven business entrepreneurs who have been with us for decades and continue running their companies well past retirement age.
I attended an Institute of Management Consultants function this week, where the organisation welcomed several fellowships and introduced a new certificate program to try to provide some form of solid footing to the profession here.
The Paino family, owners of prominent South Fremantle business Sealanes, provides a telling case study of a management succession that has not run according to plan.
While the issue of succession normally focuses on fathers and their children, in some notable cases succession has initially passed from husband to wife.
The term ‘family business’ is typically associated with private companies, yet people like Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Packer and Frank Lowy have proven it to have a much wider import.
The State Government has opened the door to the possibility of a joint venture to redevelop the old treasury buildings on the corner of Barrack Street and St Georges Terrace.
The Satterley Group last week announced a joint venture with Linc Property and John Poynton in purchasing a 4.3-hectare bulky goods site from the Midland Redevelopment Authority for $11.8 million.
Family owned and operated, Lenton Brae established itself on the back of its cabernet. But now, like so many other Margaret River producers, the winery is finding increased success through lighter, aromatic whites.
Examining the thinking of Perth’s council candidates has provided some interesting fodder for thought, especially with regard to issues confronting our central city and its role as our capital.
Last month, State Scene outlined how the National Party handed the balance of power in the upper house to the Greens by way of a secret, ideologically contradictory cross-preference deal, rather than ensuring it went to the conservatives, with whom most r
If ever proof was needed that vintage can vary dramatically from sub-region to sub-region, Fonty’s Pool winemaker Mark Morton provided it when he gave Gusto an insight into Pemberton’s growing season.
FORTESCUE Metals Group has been forced to clarify to the Australian Stock Exchange both its capital cost and mineral resource estimates for developing its Pilbara iron ore project.
The legal profession hasn’t escaped the skills shortage affecting industries across Australia, with many respondents to this year’s Legal Elite reporting there is a shortage of lawyers available to undertake work.
If winning the big jobs is a measure of success, then Freehills gets top billing in the insolvency market this year after being appointed as legal adviser to the administrators of failed mining company Sons of Gwalia.
Among the Phillips Fox property team, which was highly rated in the Legal Elite survey, many respondents nominated Paul McQueen as the stand-out performer in a wide field of quality lawyers.
An upsurge in strike activity and the prospect of major Federal Government reforms has placed industrial relations front and centre as a business issue in Western Australia.
