Opinion

Better usage of our water resources could help spark the development of new industries.

Opportunities abound in the Kimberley, if the right decisions are taken.

Power needs to be exercised in a principled manner.

Stern Hu’s detention is a timely reminder for Australian businesses, and governments.

Waste management is an issue that warrants more serious attention in the community and in business.

Booze business shows the hypocrisy of regulations used to curtail competition.

The private sector should be given more opportunities in infrastructure provision.

A major analysis of Australia’s wartime army units will be released soon.

IN 2006, I was present when the then opposition spokesman for agriculture, Gary Snook, launched his policy on the trialling of genetically modified canola at the Dowerin Field Days.

A small group of financial advisers has given the industry a bad name.

Our banks’ performance shows that the market gets it right most of the time.

A clearer picture of what the Rudd government hopes to achieve is starting to emerge.

There’s something missing in the ‘debate’ over retail trading hours.

Australian Labor has delivered the type of economic reforms expected from the conservative side of politics.

Red tape hurts business and, ultimately, consumers.

If Western Australians don’t like extended retail trading hours, why is my local IGA supermarket busy from 7am until 10pm, seven days a week?

Executive remuneration is slipping beyond the control of boards and even shareholders as new regulatory models emerge.

Rumours of Kevin Rudd’s plans for life after The Lodge won’t go away.

Federal government plans for a charter of human rights are misguided.

The idea of a big urban development in the north-west appears to be gaining traction.

Most countries have taken the wrong approach to the economic crisis.

Who’d be a taxi driver, particularly considering the current state of the industry?

Jim McGinty may be the last Labor politician to hold Fremantle for quite some time.

A rethink on how payroll tax is applied could have widespread benefits

Access to state government ministers seems reserved for a special few.

Questions are being raised over the government’s plans for infrastructure.

Workers are under-represented on the political left.

Savvy South Australia’s daylight saving solution may provide the way forward for us here in the west.

The temporary feel of the state’s north makes it less inviting than it could be for potential residents.

Kevin Rudd’s backflip highlights the divide on the emissions trading scheme.

The tax burden on working Australian families keeps mounting.

Labor MP Andrew Waddell explains why he coordinated the official ‘no’ case for the daylight saving referendum.