Opinion

Cracking it on unemployment

I have been dwelling on the remarkable news of a couple of weeks ago that unemployment in Western Australia had dropped to 5 per cent in May – the lowest level since seasonally adjusted monthly data was produced in 1978.

06 Jul 2004

Joe Poprzeczny - State Scene: For the greater public good

Those who attended the University of Western Australia or even just toured its northern grounds probably know that the creation and initial development of that campus was primarily due to the efforts and funds of Irish-born Perth newspaper proprietor, Sir

06 Jul 2004

Reader Response - Diamond Conquest

By Staff Reporters

I write to you having taken great offence at our omission from your recent two-page article featuring Western Australian diamond companies (WA Business News July 1).Your report fails to identify Conqu

06 Jul 2004

Election anyone?

By Mark Beyer

Anyone noticed the sudden burst of major resource news at State level?

29 Jun 2004

Joe Poprzeczny - State Scene: Labor realignment looming

One thing we can be confident about if the next, or second, Gallop-led Government is sworn in is that the 14 chauffeur-driven politicians who’ll attend Government House won’t be the same as those now in cabinet.

29 Jun 2004

Reader Response - Court legacy

By Staff Reporters

In your editorial of June 24, rightly paying tribute to Michael Chaney’s great achievement, you remind us that in 1994 Western Australia was an international joke and viewed as corporately corrupt.

29 Jun 2004

Chaney proves his value

Imagine how many people would have laughed 10 years ago at the suggestion that, not only was a CEO from Western Australia lauded as the nation’s best, heading a company that was a market darling,

22 Jun 2004

Joe Poprzeczny -State Scene: State poll’s power balance

Geoff Gallop-led Labor goes into the coming State election fully aware that it gained power in February 2001 largely because of one Liberal minister’s mismanagement, as well as misfortune in the case of the Nationals.

22 Jun 2004

Swell prediction for surfers’ site

By Jim Hawtin

Swell prediction for surfers’ site Local surfer Todd Halliday has combined his favourite past time with his marketing degree to create a low cost business venture that has generated a significant amou

22 Jun 2004

Homing in

Down here at WA Business News we thrive on the fact that national media generally forget Western Australia exists, leaving a convenient vacuum for us to fill – but even so I sometimes get amazed at what is missed by our peers in Sydney and Melbourne.

15 Jun 2004

Joe Poprzeczny - State Scene: A glass house of parliament

If ever you walk past a group of politicians and, by chance, overhear them uttering the phrase ‘collateral damage’ you can be fairly confident they’re not discussing military affairs.

15 Jun 2004

Readers Response: Pipe alternative

By Staff Reporters

I am writing with regard to Tim Treadgold’s column ‘Shieldliner piping for ASX listing’ (WA Business News, May 13).

15 Jun 2004

In the name of competition

LAST week’s introduction of full contestability in the retail gas market arrived with more of a muted whimper than any sort of big bang.

08 Jun 2004

Joe Poprzeczny - State Scene: To handball or run with it

STATE Scene first raised the prospect of an upper house Liberal MP resigning from his party, and paving the way for the re-introduction and successful passage of Attorney-General Jim McGinty’s one-vote-one-value draft legislation through that chamber, on

08 Jun 2004

The regulator

IT is fascinating to see our new economic regulator Lyndon Rowe stick up for former independent gas pipelines access regulator Ken Michael’s determination regarding pricing arrangements for the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline.

01 Jun 2004