Mark Beyer

The private sector should be given more opportunities in infrastructure provision.

The company born out of the collapse of one-time biotech high-flyer Chemeq Ltd has signed a manufacturing agreement with French chemical producer Arkema.

Our banks’ performance shows that the market gets it right most of the time.

WA Business News has won another award in competition against its business publishing peers in the US.

AS legal fights go, the long-running battle between the University of WA, former staff member Dr Bruce Gray, and the company he founded, Sirtex Medical, is bigger and nastier than most, but one piece of good news has unfolded.

Recent criticism of the Commonwealth Bank has been ill-informed.

It has been 90 years since Clough Ltd was founded, and Harold Clough has been an integral part of the company’s story.

If Western Australians don’t like extended retail trading hours, why is my local IGA supermarket busy from 7am until 10pm, seven days a week?

THE Perth-based chairman and managing director of UK-listed CustomVis plc have been challenged by a group of shareholders who want to gain control of the technology company.

Some of the commentary on BHP, Rio and Chinalco has been hysterical.

INTERNATIONAL gold mining company Newmont is set to become an electricity retailer in Western Australia in its own right, despite objections by one of its joint venture partners, TransAlta Energy.

Big gas processing projects could insulate WA from the economic downturn.

THE Rising Stars awards program was initiated by WA Business News in 2003 and since then it has identified many of Western Australia's up-and-coming business success stories.

Coal and wind power are predicted to dominate new electricity generation projects in WA.

Deregulation can create opportunities but can’t define outcomes.

THE stock market provides a very public barometer of the diminished wealth of many Australians over the past year.

State and federal budgets provide some welcome, but unexpected, outcomes.

PREMIER Colin Barnett has described the loss of the giant Ichthys gas project to Darwin as an embarrassment for Western Australia, yet under recent contracts at least some work is flowing to engineers and other businesses in the west.

A lot of talk but little action seems to be the order of the day.

Kevin Rudd’s backflip highlights the divide on the emissions trading scheme.

GOVERNMENTS around the globe have, almost without exception, felt compelled to try and take charge of their economies to tackle the recent financial crisis.

It always pays to look on the bright side, and it’s not such a bad outlook for WA.

A CLOSE reading of last week's historic $53 million settlement between failed miner Sons of Gwalia's administrators and its former directors indicates that the final payout may be less than the headline figure.

Although no longer leading the political charge, Matt Birney’s still making waves.

Some hard questions still need to be answered on Chinese investment in Australia.

Kevin Rudd is becoming dangerously profligate in his economic policies.

A new review may kick-start changes to the environmental approvals process

THE drying climate and a growing population has resulted in Western Australia budgeting to spend an average of about $1 billion per year for the next five years on major water supply capital projects.

Grain Coop CBH is at odds with the tax office.

The premier is big on rhetoric but lacks a clear plan for infrastructure.

AN extensive upgrade of the road network around Perth airport is set to be Western Australia's biggest roads project over the next few years.

ECONOMIST Ian Satchwell doesn't mince his words when describing the likely impact of big LNG projects like Gorgon.