Perth commentator Tim Treadgold is one of the state's highest-profile business journalists. He brings decades of experience to Business News, offering readers sharp and insightful analysis of current events and breaking news.
It's hard to imagine anyone being unhappy with Andrew and Nicola Forrest's remarkably generous $65 million donation to establish a system of educational scholarships to rival that created by Cecil Rhodes more than 100 years ago.
When bank deposit rates are less than 3 per cent it's hard to resist the siren call of an investment opportunity being spruiked at 20 per cent, which is why investors are rushing into residential property – and why many of them will get badly burned.
You don't have to be in retail to know that times are tough for shopkeepers, their staff and their landlords, but what you might not know is that conditions are probably going to get worse before they get better.
Exotic and minor metals are never a natural fit for small mining companies, a fact discovered by shareholders in struggling lithium producer Galaxy Resources, and a threat that hovers over the head
There is nothing more boring than a conversation about the weather but, in the case of a United Nations climate change report scheduled for release next week, there are significant business factors
Unless some of the smartest people in the financial world are misreading their tea leaves, Australia's new prime minister, Tony Abbott, has done more than win an election – he's won the keys to a new era of solid economic growth.
The $10 billion tragedy of Western Australia's failed magnetite iron ore processing experiment risks becoming something worse next year, as the price is pushed down by a flood of iron ore supply an
Australia's two biggest exports, iron ore and gas, are facing renewed price pressure, a situation which is starting to be reflected in the exchange rate and which could precede a big fall in the Au
It's not easy being an optimist these days, which is why an outbreak of confidence about Australia at investment bank Morgan Stanley is worth analysing – it just could change your plans for the fut
Who pays? That is a question no-one seems to be asking in the debate over solar-power subsidies, or the bigger question of who pays for the state government's debt binge.
The fun started early at the annual Diggers & Dealers forum in Kalgoorlie yesterday with delegates bravely predicting a higher gold price, to which the market responded by driving the gold pric
When an asset achieves the status of ‘fair value' it generally ceases to be news, which is probably why no-one has been talking about the Australian dollar reaching that point against the US dollar
Strong June quarter production data have confirmed iron ore as the one bright spot in Western Australia's troubled mining sector, though for how much longer is the critical question for the industr
Western Australia's role as a cash cow funding Canberra's pre-election spending spree was highlighted today when the first of the big iron ore miners filed its June quarter production report, confi
Gold and iron ore are the newsmakers in Western Australia's mining industry but nickel could be the troublemaker, with most nickel mines now operating at a loss, potentially triggering another roun
No one in Western Australia needs to be told we have become one of the world's most expensive locations, but two recent events highlight how the state has become so uncompetitive it is exporting mining jobs to Britain.