PROPERTY industry groups have been quick to criticise last week’s budget despite the State Government’s efforts to promote the benefits to property buyers as one of its major selling points.
WHILE it appears that the State’s wine industry has secured a windfall with an increased wine equalisation tax rebate in this week’s Federal Budget, Leeuwin Estate chairman and long-time critic of WET, Denis Horgan, is disappointed the Government has not
WESTERN Australia’s hard rock exploration and mining sector has expressed deep disappointment at what some are calling a lack of long-term vision by the Federal Government in its 2004-05 budget.
SWAN Brewery’s move in 1978 from the city to Canning Vale marked a major shift in the company’s approach to brewing after almost 120 years at the site on Mounts Bay Road and in Spring Street.
MODERN building design, landscaped gardens, and a State Swim centre are not features usually associated with an industrial business area, but Canning Vale Business Park has them all.
THERE’S a touch of irony in the fact that Robert Halliday has worked as CEO of Market City since 1999, not so much for his role but rather the location.
THE success of the Canning Vale development over the past three decades has encouraged several other local councils to look at similar proposals for their area, among them Hope Valley/Wattelup.
In WA Business News' annual feature on the State's most influential people, Mark Beyer explains why people such as Neil Hamilton, Tony Howarth, John Langoulant, Geoff Gallop and Jim McGinty are the real 'movers and shakers'.
THE policies implemented by the State Government are the culmination of a complex process that filters input from multiple sources.
Political advisers, lobbyists, factional power brokers and public servants can all affect the final outcome.
THE Federal politicians judged to be most influential are those who both exercise power in their respective parties in Western Australia, and hold positions of some authority in Canberra.
PAUL Armstrong, the youthful and energetic new editor of The West Australian, has been ranked as the most influential person in the Western Australian media.
THE chief executives of Western Australia’s major industrial companies are automatically placed in a position of influence, both for the decisions they make about their own company and for the leadership role they can exercise on wider business issues.
THE images of Iraq one sees on our TV screens are accurate. The streets are strewn with rubble and rubbish and war-damaged buildings are almost always in view.
AGE discrimination in employment and the extension of working life are now high on the agenda of governments and, increasingly, of business, both driven by cost/benefit considerations.
