A DECISION will be made next year which could inject hundreds of millions of dollars into the WA economy, providing some relief for the hard pressed construction and fabricating industries.
AT LEAST $1 billion will be spent in the next year or two to expand production of a commodity that costs less per tonne than good gardening soil, or two cups of coffee in a five-star hotel.
A PLAY about Paris, written in Perth, and performed in Sweden?This improbable combination was achieved by WA playwright Bill Warnock, whose play, Paris Burning, had its European premiere recently near Stockholm.
AGGRESSIVE London-based mining house Billiton is carrying out preliminary studies to build a $4 billion aluminium smelter and power station in WA to harness the State’s low-cost alumina resources.
THE weak Australian dollar offers an opportunity to greatly reduce Australia’s massive foreign debt and, incidentally, increase exports, particularly from WA.
HOUSE prices in outer Perth suburbs collapsed, it was hard to sell old gas guzzlers and there were predictions that the world would run out of oil about now.
