Western Australia has all the ingredients the rest of the world wants and is willing to pay for.
This has been the recipe for the success of the state, which is showing up its counterparts in every domestic economic indicator from house prices to state
We all know that Australia is benefiting from another resources boom – the latest in a long history of export-orientated, resource-led growth spurts that we have experienced since the gold rush of the 1850s.
PRIVATE developer Pivot Group Pty Ltd has signed a strategic alliance with Axiom Properties Ltd, which will provide Axiom with the first right to acquire each Pivot development project throughout A
All the stars continue to be aligned in favour of the Western Australian economy, on the back of a fourth successive year of above 30-year average real global economic growth.
It has been a year of record-breaking results in the resources sector as economic powerhouses China and India fuel demand and world prices for the majority of commodities continue their upward trajectory.
The shortage of skilled labour is the biggest issue facing many Western Australian businesses. WA Business News reports on some of the innovative responses to the skills crisis.
Wholesale property syndicate operator Primewest Management Ltd has bold plans for Perth's sole Lexus dealership after buying the East Victoria Park business from New Town Toyota managing director, Joe Zito, for an undisclosed sum last week.
A decision made in March by the Town of Victoria Park to refuse a controversial proposal for a 12-story mixed-use development near the Causeway may soon come back to haunt it, according to chief executive John Bonker.
Simon Devlin may have put cigars on the map in Western Australia, but his new venture may stamp his authority over the luxury good on a national scale.
State Scene is pleased to report that one of Western Australia's most important, but largely unappreciated, post-war entrepreneurs is set to be recognised with publication of a biography.
Litigation funder IMF (Australia) Ltd has announced the funding of the first class action on behalf of investors in the various "mezzanine" schemes promoted by Norm Carey's failed property developer Westpoint Corporation Pty Ltd.
Email has changed the way we communicate at work and in our personal lives, but the technology has also given rise to problems, particularly in the office. WA Business News looks at the issues to be overcome and how WA businesses are going about it.
Perth seems an unlikely place for the development of tools to manage a globally ubiquitous product such as Microsoft Outlook, but by some coincidence two local firms have based their time management solutions around this common software.
The internet may have revolutionised information access, but email has gone one step further in the way it has broken down traditional hierarchies, offering almost unfettered access to all.
Online real estate sites are logging on to the opportunities provided by Google Maps technology as national and local providers race to get connected to the world's leading search engine.
Corporate entertaining has gone from strength to strength in the wake of the resources boom, as companies devote larger budgets to networking activities and team development.
The morning after federal Liberal MP Dennis Jensen was disendorsed by his party's Tangney preselection panel for a former federal ministerial staffer originally from South Australia, State Scene was telephoned by an interstate journalist who got straight
Il Divo, Amici Forever and Charlotte Church may be making sweet harmonies on the world stage, but performers trained at a small studio in central Midland are also delighting audiences with their unique operatic style.
Gary Beadle is at the top of his game. The Luxe Bar general manager has just scooped the pool in the highly contested 2006 WA Suntory Cup, beating a field of Perth's elite bartenders.
The unearthing of two truffles weighing nearly 300 grams and 750 grams each during a recent Truffle Hunt Day has further entrenched Manjimup's Wine and Truffle Co's viability.
