Some Perth investors with an eye on BHP Billiton will be hoping for an insight into the company when they toddle along to its annual meeting in Perth tomorrow (Friday November 25).Smarter investors wi
President George W Bush’s decision to militarily engage America’s sworn Middle Eastern enemies at the head of a ‘coalition of the willing’ has resulted in numerous unexpected outcomes, not all of which are welcomed by his dogmatic critics.
SINCE the day I joined WA Business News I have been asked constantly, ‘when are you going daily’?
The reply to that has been consistent. We are never going to do that, at least not as a newspaper.
State Scene realises the most common school debating topic after whether capital punishment should be re-introduced is whether compulsory voting should be abolished.
To list, or not to list? That is the question facing Australian resource company executives as they contemplate doing business in the capital of mining finance, London.
The Gallop government’s move to streamline the approvals process for resources developments is a welcome, albeit belated response to a critical issue in this state – making sure we maximise benefit from the boom we are experiencing.
I had the pleasure of chairing a panel session for our recent Success & Leadership event, The Modern Entrepreneur in WA. The event kicked off the 2006 WA Business News 40under40 Awards by bringing together four previous winners from the program to discuss
TAKING the moral high ground can be a very expensive business, as the innocent small shareholders of Consolidated Minerals are discovering.During the past few weeks they have watched the price of thei
The resignation from state cabinet of Bob Kucera may well provide a boost for young Liberal leader Matt Birney, but it signals just how difficult we make it for our politicians to be normal these days.
Last week’s bagging of junior minister Bob Kucera’s scalp wasn’t a day too soon for Liberal leader Matt Birney, since a consensus was emerging within party ranks that, while he’d made a fairly good start in February, little had happened since to cheer up
John Howard is one of the canniest politicians in the business and his proposed reform of industrial relations has his textbook approach written all over it.
Last week, State Scene was fortunate to sneak a look at what could become Western Australia’s non-metropolitan lower house electoral boundaries at the 2009 election.