Julian Rait will chair medical indemnity service provider Medical Defence Australia, which will result from the merger of WA-based MDA National and SA-based Medical Insurance Group Australia.
Alan Robson, Jim McGinty and Jim Freemantle are among the Western Australian luminaries to receive honours as part of this year’s Queen’s Birthday awards.
Jim Freemantle, the architect of the Western Australia’s new liquor laws, takes the helm of the newly established Liquor Commission on Monday with the aim of delivering quicker outcomes, reducing costs for applicants and breathing life into Perth.
The Liquor Stores Association of WA has crafted a compromise reform proposal that would allow independent stores to trade on Sundays but would maintain restrictions on chain stores owned by Coles Myer and Woolworths.
