Unlike most of the categories in this year's Legal Elite, which primarily focus on the major industry players, the planning and environment section features practitioners from both large and small firms.
Siteworks have started for a nine-storey, 32-apartment complex at 990 Wellington Street, West Perth, which has generated controversy amid claims the development is outside City of Perth's Town Planning Scheme guidelines.
Outgoing national president of the Royal Australian Institute of Architects, Warren Kerr, says the appointment of a government architect, Professor Geoff London, was the most tangible legacy of the Year of the Built Environment.
A distinctive feature of the corporate law market in Perth is the prominence of boutique firms, which consistently give the big national firms a run for their money.
Charles and Denise Boog, owners and proprietors of Just Espresso in Preston Street, South Perth, are as passionate about their coffee as they are about the fair trade practices they use.
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.
The head of the WA Department of Industry and Resources, Jim Limerick, declared last week that the local nickel industry had become the state's second most valuable mineral sector after iron ore.
Perth data transcription and duplication company SpectrumData is poised for further growth after recently being awarded ongoing contracts in the petroleum industry.
I noted a recent Federal Government initiative to allow backpackers an additional year on their working holiday visas – something that I believe is long overdue and still probably doesn't go far enough.
With the upper house still debating Jim McGinty's One Vote One Value Bill, which some Liberal MPs and all Nationals view unfavourably, it's worth considering several less publicised aspects of the ongoing issue of vote weighting in rural seats.
Woolworths is trading on a prospective price/earnings ratio of 16.85. BHP Billiton is on 9.85. Can anyone explain the gap between two of Australia's corporate icons because it is ridiculously wide?
Peter Laurance's Pivot Group is gearing up to begin a $140 million, three-level retail development at 100 St Georges Terrace, creating a significant new retail precinct in the CBD.
The Housing and Urban Research Institute of Western Australia (HURIWA) has appointed Associate Professor Fiona Haslam McKenzie as the first full-time director.
Winemakers have faced a final hurdle as vintage 2005 draws to a close, particularly in the South West, where recent rain has added a extra dimension to near-completed programs.
THE Rotary Club of Scarborough's Wheelchairs For Kids program is the benefactor of two projects that will help the organisation send wheelchairs to help victims of tsunami-affected Sri Lanka.
Two gold industry awards for outstanding community service were also presented at the dinner to John Dow, former Australian Gold Council Chairman and Newmont Australia managing director and Hugh Da
There is a fascinating battle under way over states' rights and taxation, with federal Treasurer Peter Costello wielding his new-found power as chieftain of the biggest pot of gold the nation has ever seen – the GST.
The Gallop Government's historic One Vote One Value Bill will be debated in the upper house next week, with voting on it to take place a fortnight or so later.
I have read with interest the many articles relating to the shortage of accountants and the various solutions being advocated to relieve the situation, the latest of which was tit
In your editorial on interest rates, ‘As political theatre this doesn't rate' (WA Business News, April 14) you say: “From what I recall, Mr Howard never made a promise that intere
Owners of office development sites are actively marketing to attract anchor tenants amid falling vacancy rates, a tightening of space availability and increasing investor interest not seen for a decade.
Increasing speculation over the health of the residential property market is adding to the growth in investors and owner-occupiers buying small industrial properties.
The reopening of Jojo's in two weeks will mark the beginning of a new challenge for restaurateurs Umberto and Christian Tinelli and a fresh focus for the 1980s icon restaurant.
