Our weekly appointments wrap includes Greg Brylski, Tom Fuller, Greg Prout, Celia Hammond, Jess Hamdorf, Ben Wyatt, John Williams, Ankit Mehta, Steven Fitzgerald, Gillian Denison and Wendy Norris.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Gavin Bain, Celia Hammond, Frank Malloy, Alyson Martinovich, Stuart Skerman, Richard Kilbane, Christina Matthews, Rebecca Banks, Allister Legge, Elizabeth Keen, Deborah Low, Emma Richards, and Max Used.
ANALYSIS: The prime minister has made WA the target of his final full day on the campaign trail. Was it a desperate attempt to hold on to three seats, or did he just need to shore up support?
The Forrest family's philanthropic outfit upped its Facebook and Instagram advertising spend in WA last week as the major parties increasingly lean on memes to make their case on social media.
Labor dominated Facebook and Instagram feeds across WA last week, trumping the Liberal Party's social media advertising outlay in the state by a nearly two-to-one margin.
Labor's top recruit for Christian Porter's old seat poured thousands of dollars on online advertising last week, while two at-risk Liberal MPs shored up their position with a spate of Facebook ads.
More than $60,000 was spent by federal WA MPs on Facebook advertising over the past three months, according to recent financial disclosures published by the social media giant.
An independent candidate for former foreign minister Julie Bishop's safe seat claims she is the victim of a "supposed hoax" involving fake opinion polling data and has refused to pull out of the election race.
Battling Western Australians may shift their votes from the Liberal Party of Australia to the Australia Labor Party at the looming election, wooed by Labor's policies on wage growth and penalty rates.
Mark Pownall talks to former University of Notre Dame Australia vice-chancellor Celia Hammond about her early life, career and running for the federal seat of Curtin.
The United Kingdom's former ambassador to the Vatican and policy adviser to Tony Blair will replace Celia Hammond as the University of Notre Dame's vice-chancellor.
OPINION: Industrial emissions policy in a resources state such as WA is fraught, with much of the electorate wanting action and business requiring certainty.
One of the leading Liberal Party of Australia pre-selection candidates for Curtin, Celia Hammond, has already come under fire from former Subcontractors WA chair Louise Stewart, who is likely to run as an independent candidate for the seat.
The University of Notre Dame Australia has entered into an agreement to purchase the heritage-listed Customs House building in Fremantle's West End for an undisclosed sum.
Dawn Freshwater has been named vice-chancellor of the University of Western Australia, filling the role left vacant when Paul Johnson departed the institution last year.
Perth universities have called for the completion of a clear and comprehensive strategy targeting international students before they would contribute more money to joint marketing of the city as a study destination.
SPECIAL REPORT: The people who lead Western Australia's universities agree the sector faces enormous change, with emerging technology and potential new entrants among the biggest challenges.
SPECIAL REPORT: The opening last month of a WA-backed college in China, and the visit this week by a high-powered WA delegation to Indonesia, highlight the state's renewed focus on the multi-billion dollar international education market.
One of the challenges in running a university, like many not-for-profit operations, is the search for private benefactors to boost the funds available to offer their services.
WHEN Celebrate WA announced Western Australia's Citizen of Year awards for 2009 two weekends ago the presence of the University of Western Australia would not have escaped the attention of many.
