Opinion

The relationship between the high $A and interest rates has a way to run.

What lessons can we learn from wine sector that we can apply to industry development in this state?The wine sector has intrigued me as a business journalist for the past two decades.

HAVE you ever had an employee who one day just checks out? Their motivation drops off, they start disrupting the team and their productivity falls to an all-time low.

Many salespeople spend too much time explaining their product and not enough time selling it.

A tax rise is not tax reform, but an increase in the GST rate or a widening of its base could be part of a worthwhile package.

Look carefully through the gloom of a sputtering local economy, mine closures, ballooning state debt and rising unemployment and you might catch a glimpse of the first signs of next year's recovery

An event that brought out previously hidden Europhile tendencies proves a winner in a WA workplace.

MAKING predictions in politics is fraught with risk.

ASIO needs powers to make sure those formerly employed by government agencies, who now act as lobbyists and consultants with overseas powers, achieve outcomes in Australia's national interest.

IT'S easy to get excited about what's happening in the fast-moving world of currency values but it's wrong to describe what's happening as a ‘war', because it's not; what's going on is simply econo

Last week's interest rates cut by the RBA could be part of a concerted move by central banks around the world to take more chances to boost growth.

LET'S face it, government budgets lost meaning a long time ago – at least as a kind of one-off announcement where everyone held their breath to see how they were affected.

DESPITE great strides forward towards gender equality in the 1960s, 1970s, and through to the 1990s, women remain under-represented at board level in top Australian companies.

The big moves in currency markets over the past week have only a little to do with developments in Australia and a lot to do with the US.

A simple smile or kind word isn't much to ask, but it can have a profound effect.

Whatever else is revealed in tonight's federal budget there is one thing I hope for – an end to the nonsense of ‘modelling', because it is painfully obvious that modelling is nothing more than mode

What chance a theme park filled with remote-operated big boys' toys in WA?

RARELY do two budgets – Tuesday's federal budget, which was the last before an election, and the August state budget, which will be the first after an election – send such conflicting messages.

Fear mongering over the size of Australia's population is founded in ignorance.

For some reason the word ‘objection' has been the prime topic of my email buzz and my customer requests recently.

Local and global factors are combining against a significant future strengthening of the $A against the greenback.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission's chief Greg Medcraft has warned that investors hungry for yield are going to be attracted to riskier investments as Australia's interest rates

There's a raft of online resources available to increase your profile and grow your ‘outreach'.

The limitations of the traditional SWOT analysis have become clear – it's time businesses upgrade the way they plan and strategise for the future.

The Gillard government's inflammatory rhetoric on skilled migration and supposed widespread abuses of the 457 visa scheme still rankle.

Follow the man, follow the money. For hard-hit followers of resource stocks in Western Australia that's where they will find nuggets of good news, as smart people with spare cash refocus on a mining sector that's showing early signs of a sustained recovery.

I have just returned from holidays in Europe and among the many things I noticed was the rows of bicycles available for hire in central London. They were, to me, a noticeably new addition to city.

The last thing we need ahead of the federal election is the major parties promising to outspend one another, but that's probably what we'll get

Investigations by Victoria's Fraud Squad may put even further pressure on the prime minister's position.

The heat of a faux election campaign is the wrong time to make major economic decisions such as that relating to the NDIS.

The dynamics of Western Australia's growth profile are set to change in coming years as consumers step up their spending.

The lines are becoming increasingly blurred between not-for-profit groups and business.