Mark Pownall

SCHAFFER Corp director Danielle Blain has sold shares worth almost $1.8 million, a move that barely dented her holding after the diversified industrial’s extraordinary share price rise during the past 18 months.

WHILE new Australian Stock Exchange rules for corporate governance should be viewed as a victory for common sense, I can’t help wondering if it is all too little too late – and not just from the regulator.

THE recent setback for the development of the Burrup – with delays to the Canadian-based company Methanex’s plans to build a methanol plant – shows how fragile investment in major projects can be in a global economy.

ALCOA watchers would have had a fascinating few days last week. The company’s Australian-born executive vice president John Pizzey was here for a few days and did some high profile presentations.

WHAT a strange place Australia is.

Second time around, WA Business News’ 40under40 Awards has found a host of talent in WA. But that did not make picking the winners any easier as Mark Pownall explains.

A COUPLE of weeks ago our political columnist Joe Poprzeczny wrote a column for State Scene entitled “That sinking feeling” about the rail line that separates Northbridge and the CBD.

“YOU should be able to see Greg Norman’s yacht – no it’s already gone.”

INNOVATION is a strange concept in Australia. I have written before that our innovation is often the bush mechanic style of being able to keep things together with wire and string.