Joseph Poprzeczny

The state’s milk producers plan to continue pressuring the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for the right to create a milk price negotiating group.

Nearly one in every three dollars collected by State Treasury over the coming financial year could be taken in payroll tax – a huge $1.24 billion – making it businesses’ biggest burden.

The marketing of Vasse Newtown, 15 kilometres south-west of Busselton, has been a remunerative and invigorating experience for Geoff Hanson of Subiaco-based Hanson Property Marketing and Management.

The vision for the Luke Saraceni-driven Vasse Newtown first surfaced as a futuristic educational, scientific and research-based settlement nearly a decade ago, as the brainchild of Perth entrepreneur Leon Ivory and farmer and property developer, Kim Slaty

A delegate attending a recent Liberal Party rural divisional conference unexpectedly announced he was fed up with living under three tiers of government – national, state and local – and said one should be scrapped.

The magnetic pull of the Indian Ocean and Perth’s metropolitan beaches have had a noticeable effect on property owners’ pockets and bank balances.

The State Government wants to overhaul health and safety inspection in the mining, petroleum and major hazards industries, proposing to shift responsibility to a new statutory body.

Perth-based Griffin Group does not anticipate delays to the Westralia Square project despite the public troubles of its joint venture partner in the deal, construction giant Multiplex.

Perth’s ‘great divide’ is still a long way from being straddled.