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Julie Bishop has had a dream run since she arrived in Perth from Adelaide as a junior lawyer, just in time to benefit from the mounting work arising from that costly ongoing political and legalistic imbroglio called WA Inc.

The Master Builders Association of Western Australia has awarded the 2006 Ric New medal for excellence to Pindan director of group dwellings, Chris Lillis.

The 2007 WA Business News 40under40 Awards program was launched at a breakfast forum featuring four high-profile past winners.

It seems to come around so quickly every year, but our search for the 2007 40under40 officially started last Wednesday at the ‘Dynamic Entrepreneurs in the Boom' breakfast as part of the WA Business News Success and Leadership series.

Finding a balance between work and life outside of business appears to be some way off for the entrepreneurial panellists at the WA Business News Success and Leadership event.

Identifying and nurturing future leaders within the business was a key issue discussed at last week's breakfast forum, with all four panellists highlighting the problems while stressing the importance of seeking out key personnel able to take up the compa

Facing adversity is nothing new to Edward Rigg, having grown up on a farm, often in drought conditions, at Coorow, north of Perth.

His role as a technology leader in Western Australia was well-known when Michael Malone was crowned 40under40 1st Amongst Equals earlier this year; a far cry from when he graduated from university in the early 1990s, when few knew anything about the inter

Imagine you could be premier of Western Australia for a day; what policies would you put forward to ensure the state's future prosperity?

Staff retention and costs issues associated with the state's protracted economic growth were among the key issues raised by panellists at the breakfast forum.

Suzan Pervan says her luckiest break came following her departure from top four chartered accounting firm Ernst & Young, as it provided the catalyst for her, and Ernst and Young partner Dalton Gooding, to establish Gooding Pervan Chartered Accountants.

Western Australian Planning Commission chairman Jeremy Dawkins believes the state's future regional planning powers may be decentralised, with regional lead agencies taking control using their own budgets and simple region schemes.

Brett Martin's Trailcraft group of companies manufactures aluminium trailer boats, boat trailers and caravans and sells them through five of its own retail stores and 27 independently owner retail outlets across Australia.

The wine business has bruised more than a few entrepreneurs in recent years but it certainly didn't dissuade the Rathbone family from stepping across the Nullarbor to claim their own piece of Margaret River.

Mining might have received all the headlines in the past year, but Tessitura managing director and founder Liddy McCall is proof that other sectors are firing as well.

Daylight saving is an issue that I welcome back onto the agenda, even if I am deeply suspicious about how it has suddenly woken from its coma after more than a decade on drip-feed.

“Under new management”. We've all seen that sign many times on an A-frame outside a business, or writ-large across a shop window.

Queensland-based Platina Resources Ltd has signed a joint venture agreement to search for platinum group metals at the Polar Bear Project, near Norseman, spending $1.3 million over 3 years to earn a 70 per cent interest in the project.

A partnership between resources giant Alcoa and community organisation Fairbridge was last night awarded the Prime Minister's Award for Excellence Community Business Partnerships, in the large business category.

There's an air of mystery around the giant Gorgon project at moment.

As a decision nears on the environmental viability of Gorgon, WA Business News reports on speculation surrounding the massive gas project.

Perth's hotel market is showing encouraging signs amid a surge in new bookings, as hotel groups rush to complete refurbishments and share in the state's boom economy.

Momentum is building in support of Western Australia's first indoor ski park, while the entrepreneurial pair behind the ambitious $45 million project seeks formal designs and narrows the search for a location.

If Charles Dickens was alive today, working as a finance journalist, he might have borrowed one of his most famous opening lines to describe last week's events on the stock market

An x-ray machine bought for $140,000 by the Kings Park and Botanic Garden science laboratory has the potential to revolutionise mine site rehabilitation in Western Australia.

The Qantas Wine Show of Western Australia broke with almost three decades of tradition this year when, for the first time, the event was held in Perth.

This week, State Scene brings bad news to those believing Western Australia is justly governed.

Regulatory bodies and gas infrastructure companies need to stop the "throwing of hand grenades" to avoid higher costs and regulatory delays, according to the chair of the Australian Energy Regulator.

Perth-based consortium Hercules Energy Pty Ltd has emerged as a key player in the junior energy sector, selling its Vulcan Geothermal Pty Ltd assets to Green Rock Energy Ltd today and revealed as the power behind new IPO WildHorse Energy Ltd.

Cast your mind back to 2001 - the last time Kim Beazley challenged John Howard for Australia's top job.

Observant readers might have noted that my regular column was absent last week.

WorleyParsons has been one of the big winners from the resources boom, growing to be Australia's largest engineering firm, and the Perth office under Peter Meurs has played a key part in that success.