Opinion

In your editorial on interest rates, ‘As political theatre this doesn’t rate’ (WA Business News, April 14) you say: “From what I recall, Mr Howard never made a promise that interest rates wouldn’t ris

While the Gallop Government was tabling its One Vote One Value Bill, a Melbourne University institute and The Australian newspaper were jointly hosting a national conference on Australia’s economy.

I am always amused to read Joe Poprzeczny’s weekly back-page opinion piece in WA Business News.The article titled ‘Conservatives deal themselves out’ (April 7) is a case in point.At some stage Mr Popr

Lots of conservative-minded city and country Western Australians remain bitter about the Barnett-led Liberals’ needless loss of the February 26 State election.

I have always been fascinated by generational change and the way society evolves no matter how many people would like to preserve the status quo.

Briefcase does not consider itself a lone voice in the wilderness but wonders whether anyone else in Perth has considered the bizarre situation evolving around the role of state governments in Austral

The Mid-West region’s state seat of Greenough, which skirts the northern port city of Geraldton, has a range of claims to fame.

Conjecture as to why the ‘No’ case won the retail trading hours referendum is understandable and will no doubt be of considerable interest to social marketers, researchers, psephologists and politicia

We never like to go patting ourselves on the back but there are times when its worth giving ourselves credit – mainly because no-one else will.