Business people wanting to have their say in the upcoming City of Perth elections have less than three weeks to enrol, with registrations closing on Friday March 18.
While the business sector's apparent lack of involvement in the affairs of the City of Perth council is considered a sign of apathy or a lack of interest, an argument could be mounted that a hands-off approach is a sign that all's well.
The balance of power between state and local government often results in a relationship that's almost parental in its functioning, complete with the tension that type of relationship often invokes.
Calls for a capital city charter to give special status to the City of Perth as a valuable asset to Western Australia, and also as containing a unique constituency, have been made for some time.
The City of Perth's engagement with the business community is not just about registering voters, it also involves getting quality business candidates onto council.
As the representative organisation for the property sector and owners of CBD property, the Property Council is highly critical of the City of Perth's voting system for business.
Business groups want skills training, industrial relations reform and budget policy at the top of the Gallop Government's second-term policy agenda. Mark Beyer reports.
New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has acknowledged the broadening of land tax and the introduction of a vendor tax last year are hurting the Labor Party in NSW.
The City of Perth is targeting businesses in the lead-up to May's council elections as voter apathy again threatens to deny business an effective role in the city's affairs.
Confidence is growing among developers with a view to new office construction as the outlook for Perth's office market moves into positive territory for the first time in several years.
Both major political parties may now resolutely embrace presidential-style campaigning by thrusting their leaders at voters but, at rock bottom, contemporary election campaigns are encounters between party-hired advertising agencies.
Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive John Langoulant has forecast a steadying of Western Australia's economy and the property market as industry catches up on a backlog of work.
There are two things I think we can be sure of from this election campaign – we won't be getting a canal and we won't see any significant deregulation of shopping hours for the next decade.
Colin Barnett's tactically motivated promise to build a $2 billion-plus Kimberley-to-Perth aqueduct wasn't the most far-reaching conservative promise of the election campaign.
Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Jeff Lucy last week called for nationally consistent real estate legislation and regulation of the property industry in an appearance before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee.
A parliamentary report into developer contributions associated with land development has contradicted the long-held view of the sector that such contri
Fresh from his admission to the Restaurant and Catering Industry Association's hall of fame, Alain Fabrègues says he wants to give new talent a helpful “nudge” in 2005.
With competition for the sponshorship dollar getting tougher, major sporting codes are bracing for the arrival of rugby union's Super 14 competition in 2006.
The Australian and New Zealand Gourmet Traveller Wine Magazine has installed the 2004 Hay Shed Hill Sauvignon Blanc Semillon as the best wine for the variety in its autumn edition with a score of 95/100.
