THIS week’s vote by BankWest shareholders to agree to a takeover by UK-based HBOS should come as no surprise.
Faced with the prospect of the bank becoming a lame duck with a parent that might refuse to invest, shareholders had little choice.
IT’S sobering to be reminded that there are limits to science, technology and Western engineering marvels such as, say, electricity distribution grids.
ALTHOUGH WA’s 116 State and Federal MPs don’t publicly refer to July as ‘conference month’ they could, because that’s when Labor and the Liberals now hold their annual State conferences.
HOUSING affordability is being billed as a Federal election issue.
On the face of it, concern for new homebuyers or, more importantly, renters wanting to become home owners, is understandable.
THE development of the Gorgon gas field off Western Australia’s north west coast is shaping as the major test of the Gallop Government’s business-friendly credentials ahead of the next election.
EVER since The West Australian newspaper ran Dullsville as its front page headline, there has been significant public debate about whether or not this is a great place to live.
WA Business News has won third prize for Best Newspaper, Small Tabloids at the Association of Area Business Publication’s Editorial Excellence Awards, announced at its annual convention in Baltimore,
POLITICIANS can have a devastating effect on language.
This was highlighted by George Orwell in his brilliant essay, Politics and the English Language.
I REFER to your article on sand drift (Councils slam summer dust, WA Business News July 3).
A photograph accompanying the article was of an item of plant belonging to our company.
THE high-profile dumping of the Maud’s Landing proposal near Coral Bay may have been politically expedient but it leaves the Gallop Government looking extremely weak when it comes to policy.
EVERY week we publish dozens of government-based contracts and tenders in our For The Record section – doing our bit for transparency by picking through the reams of available information.
