The oil and gas sector is set to make an increased contribution to WA's strong economy with eight major expansion projects under way, including the state's single most expensive development, Woodside Petroleum's $12 billion Pluto gas project.
The state government and iron ore miners in the Mid-West are facing crunch time over the development of new railway and port infrastructure, which is needed if planned mines are to proceed.
While Western Australia is witnessing a boom in mining and resources projects, several major non-mining projects, with a combined value of almost $2 billion, are also in the pipeline.
The opening of a $4 million privately funded, dual carriageway steel and concrete bridge over Millars Creek near Bunbury has given the all-clear for release of an additional 700 residential lots in greater Bunbury.
Global investment bank Babcock & Brown Ltd has established a Perth office following several major infrastructure and property investments in Western Australia.
A common fixture in high-density cities such as Tokyo and Sydney, vehicle-stacking technology has been proposed for just the second time in a Perth residential project, with the latest unit planned for an apartment complex in West Perth.
Perth-based asset management company PearlStreet Ltd has renewed its testing and inspection services contract with Exxon Mobil subsidiary Esso Australia Pty Ltd, signing on to provide them until 2012.
Welshpool-based mining and earthmoving contractor NRW Holdings Ltd, which recently completed a $303 million initial public offering, has debuted strongly on the Australian Securities Exchange, closing up 20.5 per cent at $2.41.
This week's visit to Perth by Chinese president Hu Jintao highlighted the important role Western Australia plays in supporting the world's powerhouse economy.
I've had quite a bit of correspondence in recent weeks with City of Perth councillors regarding the various developments in the central business district.
Western Australia's skills shortage has prompted a flurry of activity by government and industry, although the state is struggling to find traction on the issue.
The federal government's Australian Technical Colleges continue to attract criticism over claimed low enrolment levels and insufficient graduate numbers, despite strong support from the business sector.
A review of Western Australia's vocational education and training system, undertaken earlier this year by KPMG has called for a redistribution of the Tafe sector's infrastructure assets and an injection of further capital to improve services.
With a national investment portfolio of properties worth more than $1 billion, Primewest Management Ltd is shifting into more design and construct projects with office buildings in the CBD and at Herdsman, and a psychiatric facility in Joondalup planned.
Proponents and supporters of the $200 million Victoria Quay project have been encouraged by the results of a recent survey of residents and visitors to Fremantle.
Unique to the South West region of Western Australia, the western ringtail possum has found itself in the midst of a development boom in Busselton and Dunsborough which has government authorities and property developers chasing their tails.
Construction of one of Western Australia's largest tourism resorts north of Perth, the Jurien Bay Beach Resort, has been delayed by 12 months because of dust management issues.
Riverside eatery Matilda Bay Restaurant has recently undergone a $2 million makeover designed to make the expansive venue a more intimate place to wine and dine, both for its existing customers and for a somewhat younger, sophisticated corporate crowd.
One of State Scene's sharpest political contacts insists that spades always be called spades, never digging utensils. He won't blindly fall into line by referring to things the way political spin doctors – of whom we have plenty – want them described and
Since about April, all of State Scene's best informants have said that the coming federal election would be held in November; in other words, later rather than sooner.
An online lecture presentation system developed at the University of Western Australia has been sold to one of its emerging competitors, US-based software company, Anysteam Inc.
When CSIRO chief executive, Dr Geoff Garrett, visited Perth recently on the research group's national industry roadshow, he delivered a very entertaining presentation on exponential change.
Dale Alcock and Garry Brown-Neaves have ruled out listing their successful building empire following a recently completed 20-year business plan that is designed to steer the group smoothly through their eventual retirements.
Growing Alcock Brown-Neaves Group from two building companies to more than a dozen businesses was a matter of identifying opportunities in the market and going after them as they arose, according to the firm's managing director, Dale Alcock.
Several Perth-based listed property groups have announced solid profit results this month, with diversification across market sectors a common strategy underpinning their performance.
Watersun Property managing director Garry Garside's only Melbourne syndicate, Clarke Street Pty Ltd, acquired its first asset last week, capping off a busy period for the Perth-based occupational physician.
