Perth commentator Tim Treadgold is one of the state's highest-profile business journalists. He brings decades of experience to Business News, offering readers sharp and insightful analysis of current events and breaking news.
On the road from Esperance to Albany there’s a factory rising from the low-lying, south-coast scrub, which will one day produce nickel but which is already acting as a red-flashing beacon, warning tha
Four years ago, only a handful of people believed that the world was heading into a resources boom. Today, only a handful believes that this phase of the boom is running out of puff.
The US is often cited as the best example of poverty in the midst of plenty. Parts of old coal-mining states such as West Virginia have been likened to the worst of the former Soviet Union.
Andrew Forrest and his Fortescue Metals Group are determined to build a new iron ore mine in the Pilbara, but the closer an outsider looks at the financial structure being created for the project, the
Some time in the past, when gentlemen were gentlemen, an agreement is said to have been reached between the chaps (now dead) who ran The West Australian newspaper, and their friendly rivals at The Sun
Amid all the plenty of the resources boom there is a little cloud of gloom that doggedly follows a certain class of Perth investor; true believers in buying local.
Watching cash sounds about as exciting as watching paint dry, but for the rest of 2006 cash will be the big topic in every market for three reasons: its price; in the form of interest rates; and the t
Brisbane motorists got a bit of a shock last month. They discovered that the toll for using a proposed new road tunnel would not be the $2 per trip promised, but $4.So what, you might ask.
What do Alan Carpenter, Mark Creasy and Rob de Crespigny have in common, apart from the fact that their surnames begin with C?The correct answer is that all have a talent problem; not their own, Brief
Quiz time: What does the mining industry want, but can’t get, and the wine industry has, but wants to give back?To anyone who said ‘a tax dodge’, Briefcase offers its congratulations, because tax is w