Mark Pownall

Senior editor Mark Pownall explains what makes a commercially successful biotechnology business in WA.

The pandemic continued to hit the earnings of parking giant Wilson in 2021-22 due to reduced business in key CBDs.

The commercial side of life sciences may have reached a critical mass in WA.

It might have seemed like a battle between resources efficiency and digital health and wellbeing but the winner of this year’s Curtinnovation awards was from the traditional world of medical research – a possible cause of Alzheimer’s disease.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss interest rates, stockmarket wobbles, house prices, biggest taxpayers, Lawson Apartments, Burgess Rawson and CBH Group.

Tourists are one thing, but potential new residents might also buy our lifestyle message.

The global education business has offered a positive outlook, underscoring its resilience after being battered by the pandemic.

Stockbroking and investment group Argonaut will launch its third fund next week, focusing on the hard-hit gold sector as a counter cyclical play.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss interest rates, IR changes, Tattarang, AusBiotech, WSP and environmental services, biggest exporters, Andrew Hastie and the purpose of a listed company.

Researchers Steve Wilton and Sue Fletcher have been recognised for their biotech industry leadership, while a life science legacy award has been presented to Andrew and Nicola Forrest.

US management consulting firm Alvarez & Marsal has lured former Boston Consulting Group partner Nicholas Reid to head its Perth office as it simultaneously launches its new Australian operations in three key states.

Arovella Therapeutics' announcement to close its local R&D facility is unfortunate timing given major conference AusBiotech opens in Perth today.

The inaugural head of the state’s Corruption and Crime Commission, former District Court chief judge Kevin Hammond, has passed away aged 86.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Clough, major projects, Monadelphous, Primewest, Peter Bradford, Michele Dolin and the fraught world of sports sponsorship.

Senior editor Mark Pownall talks about the impact long COVID is having on the workforce and the research being done in Perth to understand the condition.

For Steve Tucker and his business partner Paul Heath the Western Australian market they bought into probably looks a world away from the Perth scene they left in the early 1990s to make their way to the very top of the financial services ladder.

Milne Agrigroup posted a profit fall in the middle of the pandemic’s two-year crisis, showing a change in the sales mix to chilled and frozen meat and away from animal feed during that 2021 financial year.

A world-first Perth research project has made a breakthrough in understanding the pandemic’s future ramifications.

Michael Malone was always a different sort of entrepreneur.

The debate over the size and frequency of interest rate moves is healthy and justified.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss Fortescue Metals Group, Kate Chaney, Santos, OZ Minerals, CCC, public sector wages and Allendale Square.

Putting food waste to good use is a long-term mission for the Nork team.

Perth company CleanSubSea is commercialising technology developed over more than a decade.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss economic data, Greatland, Rio Tinto, South Freo power station, public sector wages, power and energy, Mandogalup, black cladding, Avicena and Garry Brown-Neaves.

Euroz Hartleys Group shareholders will receive a special dividend and return of capital amounting to $80 million from the sale of its fund management business which settled earlier this year.

Gaming entrepreneur Laurence Escalante has acquired almost 10 per cent of software business icetana as part of a changing of the guard in major support.

Water Corporation has moved to outsource its online security, signing a three-year deal with Melbourne-based CyberCX.

Geospatial innovation shows that WA does tech investment very well.

Mark Pownall and Mark Beyer discuss the death of Queen Elizabeth II, interest rates, Denis Cullity, Perth CBD sales, EY, windfarms, coastal developments and Rocky Bay.

Senior editor Mark Pownall explains why teaching entrepreneurship is a fraught subject for educators, businesses and not for profits.

A growing breed of educators wants to equip students with business-like skills.

A new state school-based innovation program is part of a plan to focus more teaching on future-facing skills.