Special Report: Your future in their hands

Cutting taxes, improving infrastructure and tackling the skills crisis should be the top priorities for the Carpenter government, a survey of Western Australian business leaders by WA Business News has found.

Business leaders in Western Australia have applauded Premier Alan Carpenter's decision to establish a science and innovation ministry, which has been handed to up and coming minister, Francis Logan.

A decisive shift in the Labor Party's Western Australian factions has played a key role in dictating the momentous political changes of the past month.