I can’t work out whether Premier Alan Carpenter has pulled a masterstroke of politics or blundered beyond compare with his talk of reserving gas for domestic use.
No doubt there are many people in Western Australia, State Scene among them, eagerly awaiting a copy of one-time Liberal leader Colin Barnett’s forthcoming book, Black Swan, to see how he explains his loss at the February 2005 election.
A new phenomenon seems to have arisen across the nation.
Australians now seem to think that the federal government’s welfare and protection extends beyond our borders to anywhere they may be.
Andrew Forrest and his Fortescue Metals Group are determined to build a new iron ore mine in the Pilbara, but the closer an outsider looks at the financial structure being created for the project, the
For the past two years, parents well-known to State Scene have received a $300-plus bill from an Australian university student union that, if not paid, would have resulted in their child not being permitted to undertake tertiary studies.
Housing affordability is something we are hearing more and more about. It’s the classic case of an issue everyone knows is a major problem yet no-one is really prepared to deal with.
Some time in the past, when gentlemen were gentlemen, an agreement is said to have been reached between the chaps (now dead) who ran The West Australian newspaper, and their friendly rivals at The Sun
The latest silly fracas between the nation’s two top Liberals – Prime Minister John Howard and his deputy Peter Costello – over who’ll be king of the castle highlights several troubling features within Liberal ranks.
Politics has always been a subject we’ve tried to cover objectively, seeing the issues from a business point of view, which is often quite removed unless the subject affects the bottom line.
Amid all the plenty of the resources boom there is a little cloud of gloom that doggedly follows a certain class of Perth investor; true believers in buying local.
Watching cash sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry, but for the rest of 2006 cash will be the big topic in every market for three reasons: its price; in the form of interest rates; and the t
Even though it’s still several months before Liberals in Western Australia preselect their 2007 federal election senate team, moves have well and truly begun to determine which names will be in the top three spots on the party’s ticket.
Ask any active Western Australian Liberal who their party’s ultimate movers and shakers are and you’ll be told it’s the triumvirate of senators Ian Campbell and Chris Ellison and their man in Perth, Matthias Cormann, who was a former staffer of Court gove
