Special Report: Stars Align

Colin Barnett is riding high and consistently outpacing Canberra. But he faces some major challenges to maintain his trajectory.

LAST month, a heavyweight crowd attended the opening of an exhibition of Jeffrey Smart's work at the new high rise on the Bishop's See site.

HE'S chairman of the East Perth Redevelopment Authority and heads up the Perth Waterfront Taskforce, but don't call Stuart Hicks powerful; instead, he says, it's influence he's wielding to build a 21st century face for the city.

LAST week's standoff between the federal and state governments over mining royalties overshadowed the news from Shell that it had given the green light to its $11 billion Prelude floating LNG project.

DON Voelte's departure from Woodside comes at a time when the business face of Perth is changing rapidly, and quite literally.

ANKETELL is a location on the Pilbara coast few Western Australians could pinpoint.

SERCO is a company that Western Australians are becoming increasingly familiar with, since it became preferred tenderer to supply non-medical services to the giant Fiona Stanley Hospital project rising near the Kwinana Freeway at Murdoch.