With 19 Saturdays before the next parliament can be convened, Joe Poprzeczny outlines why Premier Geoff Gallop has little choice in the actual election date.
LABOR and Liberal campaign strategists expect the preferences of Western Australia’s six minor parties to play determining roles in deciding the outcome of February’s State election.Both have conclude
THE Water Corporation could be forced to modify aspects of its $350 million desalination plant at Kwinana to take account of a new port project planned by Fremantle Ports.
Does Geoff Gallop’s surprise decision to call a two-part shopping hours referendum for election day show that Western Australia, at long last, has a democratically inclined premier?
With so many aspirational voters in Western Australia – to use Mark Latham’s borrowed term – deserting Labor on October 9 it’s little wonder Geoff Gallop’s boffins are reassessing his provisional plan to call a December 2004 State election.
THE State Government has announced a new decision making body to consider all future applications for the Ningaloo Coast.Premier Geoff Gallop said the Ningaloo Sustainable Development Committee would
Labor enjoyed watching Prime Minister John Howard searching for explanations after one-time Defence Department officer Mike Scrafton belatedly surfaced to claim the PM knew the so-called kids overboard claims were phony.
The State Government has confirmed that the Western Australian Energy Research Alliance will be the recipient of Western Australia’s single largest research grant, worth $20 million.
STATE Scene first raised the prospect of an upper house Liberal MP resigning from his party, and paving the way for the re-introduction and successful passage of Attorney-General Jim McGinty’s one-vote-one-value draft legislation through that chamber, on
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'.
WHENEVER controversies surface at the national level that impact, even indirectly, upon State affairs it’s hard to hold back premiers and/or State opposition leaders from commenting.
A PUZZLING feature of 2003 was the fact that, despite the Liberals being in disarray, and with a weak and unpopular leader, Gallop-led Labor sometimes found itself trailing the conservatives in the polls.
PREMIER Geoff Gallop is currently leading an eight-day trade mission to the US and Mexico in a bid to promote Western Australia’s vast natural resources and the State’s reputation as a stable supplier
ARMED to the teeth with facts and figures to paint Western Australia’s rosy economic condition and future prospects, Premier Geoff Gallop faced a tough crowd at last week’s Property Council of WA lunc
A FIVE-YEAR campaign by the Western Australian rock lobster industry has achieved a major breakthrough with the recent decision by the European Union to significantly reduce tariffs.
PREMIER Geoff Gallop’s office is to undergo a significant change in the lead up to the next election with the potential inclusion of a new business liaison officer.
MORE than 1,000 Perth residents attended the State Government’s ‘Dialogue with the City’ last week to create a planning vision that will guide Perth’s future growth and development for the next two de
