Mark Pownall

If we can build on the beach at Rottnest, why can’t we on the mainland?

How would you go at your job if you had to pay someone else's mortgage off before you received any income? Would that be an incentive to turn up to work?

Nauru is a good example of why a sovereign wealth fund is not such a smart idea.

The appointment of investment banker Michael Ashforth as manager of the Bennett family’s $1.5 billion fortune highlights the maturing of Western Australia’s private wealth market.

Misinformation and pseudo science are being used to thwart fracking, which is in its infancy in Australia.

A new ASX investment vehicle is good news for those looking to diversify their portfolio.

Murdoch University has taken the extraordinary step of referring its vice-chancellor Professor Richard Higgott to the state’s Corruption and Crime Commission following an internal investigation.

Selling assets needs careful management and is much more than just an opportunity to fill the coffers.

Resources sector employer representatives have claimed a victory for the offshore industry in a decision by the Federal Court to reject a challenge by two maritime unions to the Commonwealth’s offshore skilled migration visa arrangements.

As the scale of Western Australia’s iron ore exports has increased, so has the impact of any glitches in the system, such as strike action or the weather.

Fear and loathing should never be allowed to override science when it comes to industrial development.

Major private investment player Wyllie Group has cut direct ties with mining dealmaker Michael Fotios’s investment syndicate, Investmet, a significant backer of junior resources companies and other speculative opportunities.

Investment banking group Azure Capital has added to the state’s small funds management sector by offering an Asian-focused hedge fund run by an experienced operator drawn to Perth for family reasons.

Reports of a new direction from Brookfield Multiplex may mean the end for one of Perth construction’s longest-running synergies.

Bitcoin trader Digital CC has claimed a profitable entry into the computer-generated currency sector, highlighting a $630,146 profit for three and a half months of business, despite the vehicle through which it conducted a backdoor listing recording an $11.8 million loss for the financial year.

Arguments built on pseudo-science and please to emotion will always fall short in the face of facts.

Could Lyndon Rowe be an inspired choice to lead Synergy’s next phase?

Whiskey might not yet feature prominently on Perth’s list of key attractions, but the Japanese penchant for distilled beverages led to a new venture in this field being put on the itinerary for visiting Kagoshima Mayor Hiroyuki Mori.

The middle class welfare to which we have all become attached makes it hard for many to stomach the arguments proposed by Andrew Forrest.

The Liberal Party in Western Australia has backed the introduction of new consumer-focused ridesharing applications such as global group Uber, which launched in Perth last month as an alternative t

Broadcaster James Lush has relaunched his business with a new studio, a new brand and a new CEO in the form of Paul Plowman, a former state government communications director and recent Australian CEO of Hill & Knowlton.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia’s leading role to win international agreement to deal with the aftermath of the MH17 airline crash has underlined the nation’s can-do attitude.

In November 2008, the newly installed state Liberal government officially dropped Western Australia’s ban on uranium mining, paving the way for the development of a new sector.

Deloitte has become the latest of the big four to get involved in a wave of professional services deals, acquiring the boutique tax specialist KD Johns & Company which will make the post-merger firm the state's biggest accounting partnership.

Is our apartments boom a natural development, or something prompted by over-regulation?

The Palmer United Party is proving that success in business doesn’t equal sense in politics.

Business leader Duncan Calder has resigned as the national president of the Australia China Business Council after being charged with sex offences.

Perth-based Swan Gold Mining has completed a one-for-10 share consolidation as part of a restructuring of the company that it proposes including a capital raising of up to $20 million and debt to equity conversion of more than $29 million.

Consumer behaviour plays out in business much as it does in the political sphere.

Their focus might be on the forthcoming Commonwealth Games, but hockey stars Rachael Lynch and Ashleigh Nelson also have an eye on the future with a plan to attract corporate interest in their speaking talents to raise funds for charity.

A good few months of deal flow is offering hope for a better year.

Internet pioneer Michael Malone has quietly ended another formal link to the ISP he founded and floated, selling more than 1.1 million shares in iiNet to net almost $8.5 million, a move which takes him below the 5 per cent substantial shareholder limit.