Harvey Norman chairman Gerry Harvey is a strong supporter of a deregulated retail trading market and is bemused that WA remains a restrictive trading environment.
Australia’s biggest fabrication hall is the centrepiece of a $200 million infrastructure project south of Perth. Mark Beyer asks if this is an astute investment that will foster industrial growth or an extravagant use of taxpayers’ money?
WHEN the first big construction project gets underway at the Australian Marine Complex, the Premier of the day (whoever he is) is sure to hail it as a big success.
MORE than 50 per cent of currently developed land in the Australian Marine Complex industrial precincts has been sold.
Since being appointed to handle the freehold land sales Jones Lang LaSalle industrial sales and leasing manager Geoff Fraser said...
IN a field dominated by interstate and overseas companies, Perth-based Organic Resource Technologies stands out as a homegrown developer of waste treatment technology.
PERTH company GRD is poised to become a major player in the waste management industry through its 50 per cent-owned Global Renewables.
After many years of technical and commercial development, Global Renewables is on the brink of commencing its first UR-
IMAGINE spending $35 million on a new factory then asking the State Government for a handout so you can create a market for your product.
Sound crazy? That is exactly what the ratepayer-funded Southern Metropolitan Regional Council has done.
INDUSTRY speculation has it that the name McCusker is at, or near, the top of the list to head the State Government’s proposed Crime and Corruption Commission.
CRIMINAL law runs through the veins of Robert Mazza, who has followed in the footsteps of his late father.
Mr Mazza was articled with his father in the early 1980s and the two worked together for two decades, until Jim Mazza passed away in 1999.
MERGERS and Acquisitions was the most keenly contested category in the Legal Elite 2003 survey.
Six lawyers attracted substantial support from across the industry and, at the end of counting, they were separated by only a handful of nominations.
THE past year has provided a fresh change for Perth’s top property lawyer, KPMG Legal partner Ted Sharp.
After more than 20 years with Freehills and its predecessor Parker & Parker, Mr Sharp chose to pursue new opportunities at a much smaller firm.
WITH more than 20 years under his belt at law practice Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Chris Stevenson is going solo.
Considered Western Australia’s elite Native Title lawyer, by his peers, Mr Stevenson is planning a move mid-year to the independent bar
MICHAEL Hunt is bemused by his Legal Elite accolade, a little sensitive that it could be just another unwelcome sign of old age.
The ‘number one mining lawyer’ tag attaches awkwardly to one not entirely at ease with the general legal clique
SPECIALISING in tax law was a logical move for Robert Sceales.
Mr Sceales has been practising as a lawyer since 1971, originally in his native South Africa but for many years in Australia.
LEE Christensen’s professional fate was decided when he was articled to Ron Harmer, the guru of insolvency law, in 1982.
Mr Christensen has never looked back from that point, specialising in
AN attraction to the law might have led Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner Rob Lilburne into the profession but the pressure cooker of the Robe River Iron Ore dispute in the 1980s cemented his place in the industrial relations field.
