News Articles for Julie Bishop

New accommodation designed for the brightest minds within and entering the state has been built on the river bank outside the University of Western Australia thanks to a $27.5 million donation from Andrew and Nicola Forrest.

The Woodside Petroleum-led Greater Sunrise gas project is a step closer to going ahead, with the federal government to ink an agreement with Timor Leste about revenue sharing, more than 40 years after it was originally discovered.

Western Australian senator Mathias Cormann will be Acting Prime Minister next week, with Malcolm Turnbull and Julie Bishop overseas and the embattled Barnaby Joyce to take leave.

The state government has bowed to public pressure and dumped plans to move Perth's only academically selective school to a high-rise city building in favour of constructing another secondary school on a park in Subiaco.

SPECIAL REPORT: A small group of ministers and backroom advisers close to Mark McGowan will set the agenda for the new state government.

Former Western Australian premier Richard Court has been named Australia's next ambassador to Japan.

Macmahon Holdings won't reveal if it paid a ransom to secure the release of three Australians and a New Zealander kidnapped in Nigeria.

Nigerian kidnappers who captured three Australians and a New Zealander after a deadly attack on mine workers have made no demands.

Perth-based mining contractor Macmahon Holdings has confirmed this afternoon that one of its employees was shot dead and seven others abducted near its operations in Nigeria.

In the first of a series of interviews with top WA business leaders, Business News met with inaugural 40under40 First Amongst Equals winner and Macquarie Group chairman (WA) Mark Barnaba. Far from the boardroom, in the relaxed setting of Julio's restaurant in West Perth, Mr Barnaba spoke of his education, mentors, leadership style, culture, diversity, and social media.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has told the LNG 18 conference that Australia's increasing role as an energy exporter added significant weight to the country's strategic influence, while touting the benefits for the industry of recently signed free trade agreements.

SPECIAL REPORT: Business News CEO and online entrepreneur, Charlie Gunningham, analyses the social media influence of the political and business elite.

SPECIAL REPORT: There has been a major shift in business influence in WA amid waning international investment and, with two elections on the way, there is a prospect of even bigger changes in political influence. Click through to see our listing of WA's most infliential leaders in politics and business.

WA ministers hold growing influence in the federal government under Malcolm Turnbull.

Led by the competent and effective Warren Truss, the Nationals emerged from the political machinations of 2015 with reputations intact.

A Perth jeweller has used the launch of her first men's collection to call on the mining industry to open its production lines to Western Australia's creative community.

Under new PM Malcolm Turnbull, WA has numbers in cabinet not seen since the Hawke-Keating era.

"You could drop a nuclear bomb on this parliament and Julie Bishop would crawl out as deputy leader." Labor senator Sam Dastyari's light-hearted joke with journalists was pretty close to the mark.

Malcolm Turnbull's business experience and familiarity with WA could be a plus for this state.

Newly elected Liberal Party leader and Prime Minister designate Malcolm Turnbull has said he will lead a "thoroughly liberal government", committed to individual freedom and the market, and vowed to carefully explain and consult heavily on policy.

Colin Barnett has set the scene for an industrial stoush with his proposed changes to Sunday penalty rates.

Politics is a ruthless business, where poor performers are quickly found out and (more often than not) moved on.

The ‘iron ore wars' and budget battles are defining where power and influence lies in business and politics in WA. Read our latest Most Influential feature to see who is on the rise, whose influence is waning and who has dropped off the list.

Premier Colin Barnett will be looking for a new chief of staff now that Brian Pontifex has been appointed as Australia's next ambassador and permanent representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris.

Not everything new is momentous, and not all that is old should be forgotten.

Two Western Australian Liberal members of parliament, Luke Simpkins and Don Randall, have announced they will move a motion to vacate the Liberal Party's leadership, while Prime Minister Tony Abbott said he and deputy Julie Bishop would urge the party room to defeat the motion.

The international stage has helped this year's local business and political leaders stand out from the pack – including our Person of the Year, Richard Goyder.

The foreign affairs minister must be thankful she didn't take up Richard Court's offer of the state Liberal leadership in 2001.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop says Australia's leading role to win international agreement to deal with the aftermath of the MH17 airline crash has underlined the nation's can-do attitude.

SPECIAL REPORT: Politicians with the ability to cut through on-message are a valuable commodity, and WA has one of the best.

SPECIAL REPORT: Global economic forces, a national election and state political exits have shaped the 2014 Most Influential list.

Chevron Australia managing director Roy Krzywosinski and Rio Tinto Iron Ore chief executive Andrew Harding have joined some of Australia's top business leaders in being honoured by the American Australian Association.

Australia's deference to China at a political level does this country no credit.

Nedlands-based tech company Norwood Systems has enlisted two influential supporters to launch a platform which it says will cut exorbitant mobile roaming costs for corporate clients.

FEATURE: Gina Rinehart's ability to maintain momentum at the Roy Hill project put the mining magnate at the top of our people of the year list.

The recent publication of two listings of influential business leaders provided food for thought about the growing international influence on Western Australia.

The governments of Tony Abbott and Colin Barnett face big challenges when it comes to cutting spending.

From council amalgamations to Elizabeth Quay, power prices to ballooning debt, Colin Barnett faces criticism whichever way he turns.

Top-level businesswomen see male-dominated networks as a barrier.