Opinion

Employment growth is expected to have slowed in September after enjoying several months of strong gains.

Colin Barnett has already got into Malcolm Turnbull’s ear about public transport infrastructure funding.

Tipping the top or bottom of a market is never smart, especially at a time of volatile trading; but a series of recent events point to confidence growing in the start of a recovery in the Western Australian economy.

Consumer sentiment in Western Australia dampened further to 87.5 in September 2015, down 5.2 per cent from 92.3 in the previous month.

The Nationals may have corralled Malcolm Turnbull on some of his pet issues, but the new PM has a clear infrastructure agenda.

Mastering the elements of the sales process requires you to control outcomes and ownership, not simply deliver sales presentations and closing techniques.

Crooks are bad enough in business, but systemic governance lapses in major corporates flow across the system.

The wholesale supplier has lost a huge chunk of its stock market value as it battles the grocery giants.

The keen investor interest in tech stocks will hopefully be more than a passing trend.

Valuing and helping people are key to an effective approach to selling.

A plan to rename some WA Legislative Assembly seats has drawn fire from both sides of politics.

It is hard to find a winner in the coal-mining industry these days but some investors were quick to spot a Perth-based winner yesterday in the form of Wesfarmers, which saw the value of its coal assets boosted by a deal in the Hunter Valley of NSW.

This week REIWA members reported the total number of sales continued to trend downwards to 565, a decline of 6 per cent over the week and is the lowest number of sales reported since mid-July 2015.

A strong win at the next election will strengthen the new PM’s hand in relations with his coalition partners.

Researchers at Curtin University are exploring how the happiness of managers affects organisational performance.

WA-based LNG Ltd has fallen back to earth as an oversupply of liquefied gas worldwide is hitting the share prices of gas-exposed stocks.

It’s intriguing to see Western Australians are winners in a less conservative government.

The government of Malcolm Turnbull moved quickly to differentiate itself from that of Tony Abbott with some key cabinet announcements –including the reintroduction of the position of a minster for cities and the built environment.

Under new PM Malcolm Turnbull, WA has numbers in cabinet not seen since the Hawke-Keating era.

No-one in Western Australia needs to be told that the state is passing through a rough patch; it’s in their face every day.

This week REIWA members reported the total number of sales remained stable at 602 compared to 605 sales recorded on the previous week.

Donald Trump may be the early frontrunner, but only time will tell whether his appeal with Republican voters can be sustained.

There’s no escaping the effect social media can have on your business prospects, so make sure you’re one step ahead.

The immediacy provided by mobile technology places even greater time constraints on today’s workforce.

The boom-and-bust cycle can’t be managed, but at least we can acknowledge it exists.

With the resources sector in the doldrums, another of Australia’s traditional strengths – agriculture – is standing tall.

Malcolm Turnbull faces high expectations from a public fed up with political inertia and infighting.

"You could drop a nuclear bomb on this parliament and Julie Bishop would crawl out as deputy leader." Labor senator Sam Dastyari's light-hearted joke with journalists was pretty close to the mark.

Malcolm Turnbull’s business experience and familiarity with WA could be a plus for this state.

If Andrew Mackenzie and Sam Walsh are right, then Western Australia’s commodity dependent economy could be at the start of a recovery; and not before time, given the weakening state of the property market as measured by mortgage defaults.

This week, Reiwa members reported the total number of sales has declined yet again, to 605, a marginal decrease of 2 per cent on the previous week.

China may be top of mind for many businesses, but US investment here speaks volumes about the depth of Washington’s relationship with Australia.