This time last year, Rugby WA chairman Geoff Stooke and cricket legend Dennis Lillee were not regarded as major players in the running of sport in Western Australia; but that changed with a vengeance late last year.
The boardroom coup at the WA Cricket Association last September was headlined by new president Dennis Lillee, but standing with him were three prominent business figures, who were also elected to the WACA board.
There have been minimal changes on the Labor side of politics since the Government won re-election at last February's state poll, but there have been enormous changes on the Opposition side.
Western Australia has 27 members and senators in the federal parliament, and while some are very good at generating headlines, there is a group of five who are clearly the most influential.
Perth company MineARC Systems hopes to develop its ‘refuge chamber' technology beyond the mining sector to include projects in the nuclear waste, and major road and railway tunnel building sectors.
The marketing of Vasse Newtown, 15 kilometres south-west of Busselton, has been a remunerative and invigorating experience for Geoff Hanson of Subiaco-based Hanson Property Marketing and Management.
The vision for the Luke Saraceni-driven Vasse Newtown first surfaced as a futuristic educational, scientific and research-based settlement nearly a decade ago, as the brainchild of Perth entrepreneur Leon Ivory and farmer and property developer, Kim Slaty
John Kelly's recent purchase of the 18-hole golf course, The Cut, at Port Bouvard for $20 million could be the start of a new era for Mandurah, but not just on the greens and fairways.
Between 200 and 300CE, when the Roman Empire was still a superpower, albeit in decline, its citizens complained of two types of bandits – those who were mobile and those who were stationary.
The science of wine has just moved up a level, with recently multi-awarded Margaret River winery Watershed joining forces with Curtin University of Technology to get to the bottom of a good bottle.
Beazley wins unopposed The then Federal Minister for Finance, Kim Beazley became the natural successor to then Prime Minister Paul Keating, easily winning an election to become Deputy Prime Ministe
Well, it has happened again. Western Australia is to have another governor, a retired public servant, 67-year-old Dr Ken Michael, and the people were again denied a say in who would hold their state's most powerful constitutional post.
Brance office syndrome, the inferiority complex that rears its head every few years in Western Australia, is overdue for a return if stock exchange pecking order is a guide.
Nearly one in every three dollars collected by State Treasury over the coming financial year could be taken in payroll tax – a huge $1.24 billion – making it businesses' biggest burden.
Boans city department store was a Perth institution from its opening in November 1895 until 1986 when the doors closed for the last time. See Special Reports for related articles.
“He brought to business the moral passion of an evangelist, and he was the first of the great modern merchant princes to understand that the mass of people is moved less by monetary considerations than by appeals to the imagination.”
Exploration expenditure data for Australian Stock Exchange-listed exploration companies has confirmed last quarter's prediction that expenditure could level out in the March quarter.
Booming commodity prices mean annual minerals exploration spending in Australia is expected to exceed $1 billion this year for the first time since 1997. See Special Reports for related articles.
Dual listings on foreign exchanges by Western Australian-based juniors with an international focus are increasing in popularity, according to a recent Geoscience Australia report.
The need for continued export growth and a wake-up call to state and federal governments were the two stand-out issues at the recent Wine Industry Association of Western Australia Awards 2005.
Former Orbital Engine Corporation chief executive Kim Schlunke came to some interesting conclusions when he sat down three years ago to ponder the future of recreational transport.
In universities, in public research institutions, even in the proverbial backyard sheds, vast numbers of inventive, creative types around Australia are looking for the next big breakthrough.
