Mark Pownall

LONG-STANDING Western Australian media entrepreneur Harry Kleyn (above left) has retired as CEO of WA Business News, ending more than a decade and a half as an executive with the paper.

WHEN it comes to influence, the resource super profits tax has the capacity to completely reshape who’s who in Western Australia.

OPPOSITION revelations that Premier Colin Barnett’s chief-of-staff Brian Pontifex is one of Western Australia’s best-paid bureaucrats or advisers may have only underscored the value of one the most influential new players in the Liberal state government.

THE West Coast Eagles might be having a dreadful season on the field but its success off the field may well lie with the long-term strength of the boardroom, which has not been handicapped by salary caps, draft restrictions or drug scandals.

The federal government is looking to drive a hard bargain on the resource super profits tax.

THE Australian Institute of Company Directors has enlisted the help of some of Western Australia’s heavyweight directors in a new push to increase the number of women in the boardrooms of the nation’s top listed companies.

Debate about rates is masking a thorough understanding of the extraordinary mining tax mechanism.

IN his first outing as treasurer, Premier Colin Barnett sold last week’s state budget as one that reins in costs and shares the pain across the community, as increased charges and rising royalties have helped to keep the state’s finances in the black.

Grain storage, handling and marketing giant CBH Group has won a Federal Court appeal over its tax-exempt status that could have cost it millions of dollars a year.