Joseph Poprzeczny

The Department of Industry and Resources (DOIR) is about to make a concerted bid to propel Western Australia into becoming a significant new player in the international petrochemical industry.

The lobbying for parliamentary secretary positions in Geoff Gallop’s second-term government is well under way ahead of next week’s caucus meeting, as Joe Poprzeczny reports. One of the first items for

Western Australia’s Liberals have emerged in far worse shape from the February 26 election – at which they attracted 35.6 per cent statewide voter support – than after the February 2001 election when they scored only 34 per cent.

Colin Barnett’s tactically motivated promise to build a $2 billion-plus Kimberley-to-Perth aqueduct wasn’t the most far-reaching conservative promise of the election campaign.

The debate about the Liberals’ multi-billion dollar Kimberley aqueduct proposal should be democratically resolved by referendum, says Joe Poprzeczny, with voters – not politicians – deciding whether c

Liberal leader Colin Barnett has aspired since at least 1990, the year he entered state parliament, to become premier.

Despite the Latham imbroglio and State Labor’s dismal scores in several opinion polls held late in 2004, a surprisingly large number of senior Liberals – MPs and rank-and-file – believe Gallop-led Labor is still likely to sneak home in the coming election

Premier Geoff Gallop isn’t the one calling the shots in State Labor’s current election campaign. Joe Poprzeczny considers the role of Labor’s real master strategist who, nearly a decade ago, underwent a Latham-style resignation.

Both sides of State politics have failed to provide a visionary planning policy for Perth’s CBD, according to a leading urban planner. Joe Poprzeczny reports.