Mark Pownall

After Usain Bolt won the 100 metre title at the Olympics this month there was a lot of interesting analysis about how humans had become progressively faster in the past century.

The nation’s farming sector needs to be jolted into the 21st century.

WESTERN Australia’s biggest aged care provider, Aegis, is planning an estimated $14 million redevelopment of the historic Swanbourne Hospital site, ending decades of doubt about the striking locati

Whatever mud is slung at the state’s top entrepreneurs, they still back themselves.

PERTH construction group Georgiou has won a $32 million contract from Lend Lease and LandCorp to carry out the earthworks for the first phase of the South Alkimos residential property development p

WESTERN Australia is rapidly emerging as a centre of excellence for mine automation, with resources demand for remote operated equipment spurred on by high wages costs, adherence to strict safety r

WESTERN Australia’s Economic Regulation Authority should be unshackled from its current constraints and allowed to become the state’s own version of the Productivity Commission to investigate and c

The state needs a sensible, practicable approach to heritage issues.

The nature of doing business with China is changing as our economies become more enmeshed.

The state’s decision to ban mining around Margaret River sets a dangerous precedent.

DIAMOND hopeful Mig Resources has gone to the Federal Court seeking to overturn a decision to block its access to part of the Joseph Bonaparte Gulf in favour of an interstate gas pipeline proposed

THE sale of the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle to a Singaporean group has fallen through, more than three months after the deal was first revealed.

Synergy customers opting for renewable power are being subsidised by other users.

PROPERTY developer Danny Murphy expects to see his landmark project Ellenbrook back in the news as Western Australia moves towards a state election and bickering begins again about a promised railw

THE Hancock Prospecting-led Roy Hill joint venture is claiming to have turned away prospective suppliers for a briefing on the $9.5 billion project after more than 500 people applied to attend a se

The carbon tax introduces a power-pricing anomaly as businesses battle rising electricity costs.

IT might not be the busiest of times in Western Australia’s corporate advisory scene, but that has not stopped positive moves by several firms – albeit without much fanfare – that have included the

Panoramic Resources might be in the unloved nickel sector but its healthy cash position has allowed it to make some aggressive diversification moves via acquisitions.

WITH some experienced campaigners suggesting the current mergers and acquisitions market is the worst they have ever seen, there is plenty of finger pointing to overly exuberant deals of the past f

The corporate advisory market is in the doldrums as global forces restrain players.

PERTH’S major accounting and legal firms have appointed nearly 50 new partners this year, signalling notable ranking changes within each profession.

A cheeky JV proposal for the Mid West has been dropped.

Does WA care about its iconic brands, or does pragmatism rule out west?

WHEN Don Voelte stepped down as Woodside Petroleum CEO last year there was little indication he planned to do much more than use his board membership at Seven West Media as an excuse to regularly v

NORWAY is preparing to open a new export finance office, using the country’s oil-supported balance sheet to help its own manufacturers and service providers to compete globally.

FORMER Skywest director and shareholder Miles Cattle has reportedly died in a motorcycle accident near his residence in Phuket, Thailand.

CHIEF Justice Wayne Martin may work in a world steeped in tradition but he is a reformer who speaks a language that most business people would understand – a desire for efficiency and a frustration

The Western Australian CEO Sleepout has raised $700,000 and counting after a successful 2012 event which culminated in 106 CEOs staying at the WA Cricket Association ground last night.

There are plenty of ways to sustainably manage fishing without locking vast areas of ocean away.

BANKWEST has dismissed accusations that its purchase by Commonwealth Bank at the height of the GFC had prompted it to act against risky clients or manufacture customer defaults.

IT would be easy to think of the takeover of Little World Beverages as a rerun of Matilda Bay Brewing Co more than 20 years ago.

SIMON Higgins reckons his contracting company, ECM Global Project Partners, is all about growing people and keeping them.