WA’s isolation and sheer size is a hurdle that WA business people have had to deal with since federation. Today, a growing band of entrepreneurs is overcoming the tyranny of distance by building or buying their own aircraft.
ONE broker, attempting to sum up the challenge facing Kingstream Steel’s Oakajee project, suggested: “it’s a bit like a shipyard with the resources to build fishing boats attempting to launch the QEII”.
15 May 2001
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