Mark Pownall

It’s not only Liberal state premiers who are making Julia Gillard’s life tough when it comes to the mining tax.

The controversial subject of high CEO salaries at state government agencies appears to have gone off the boil as a policy to rein in remuneration appears to have helped stop surprise jumps in pay p

MALAGA-BASED contractor Hertel Modern has secured a key contract on the Chevron-operated Gorgon LNG project, a win that will help deflect some of the political heat around local content.

PERTH-BASED oil junior Pura Vida is sparring with a Chinese media play to become the last listing in 2011, a lean year for initial public offerings after the heady years that led up to the GFC and

Governments need to be encouraged to make decisions for the long-term good.

THE emergence of Lendlease as a major player in the Perth property development scene reflects the company’s concerted push into Western Australia in the past three years, with a mix of distressed-a

Mike Quigley says it is better NBN Co’s planners stay away from the political dimensions of the network roll-out.

AN energy player backed by Warren Buffett’s investment company Berkshire Hathaway has become the latest to tackle the tight gas reserves at Whicher Range near Busselton, hoping to succeed where man

Any inquiry into the media in Australia should focus on the future, not what has gone before.

IT is a familiar tale in the online business world – a local innovator offshores its development work in an emerging market and then seeks to crack a big market like the US as a company maker.

COULD the state government do more to encourage investment in IT?

Political debate over the NBN may be highly charged, but there’s no agreed position within industry as to the best plan for the nation’s future needs.

Lend Lease Australia CEO Mark Menhinnitt believes there will be plenty of demand for the group’s newly secured Waterbank project north of the Causeway in East Perth.

TWO national players have won two major Western Australian property projects worth a combined $2.5 billion, with Mirvac snaring a Karratha development and Lend Lease picked for the Waterbank site i

Qantas management is acting to secure the brand’s future.

Never one to sit on his hands, Alan Robson has plenty of work lined up for when he steps down as UWA vice-chancellor.

FINANCIAL uncertainty may be making life busier for charity group Anglicare WA, but its bottom line has remained resilient, in part due to a significant bequest received during the financial year.

RESOURCES players in the Mid West are jostling for position ahead of an expected shake-up at the Oakajee project near Geraldton, with an infrastructure subsidiary of the Karara iron ore joint ventu

Meeting has important economic and political outcomes for Australia.

Africa is increasingly desirable, but some worry about local investment.

QANTAS may be taking the industrial relations spotlight but air travellers aren’t alone in having to deal with growing union activity throughout Western Australia.

The forestry assets of failed rural land owner The ARK Fund have been sold for $46 million in a deal struck by receivers from McGrathNicol with an international timber investment group.

The University of Western Australia will be the administrative home of a new International Mining for Development Centre, funded to the tune of $31 million by the Federal Government through AusAID.

While painful for all involved, Europe’s debt crisis presents an opportunity for positive change.

IS it fair for people who own more desirable real estate to pay extra for underground power because they benefit more appreciably from the resulting increase in value?

IT is hard to know whether Fortescue Metals Group’s recent suggestion that it would be comfortable with a joint venture to develop the proposed Anketell Port is some form of concession or simply br

FOLLOWING the footsteps of Andrew Forrest must be one of the hardest gigs in town.

THERE is a great deal of logic in holding the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Perth this year, and not only because the Western Australian capital is relatively safe and economically bu

Health insurer HBF has revealed one of its strongest years on record as improved investment markets more than match up with the rising levels of claims.

South African engineering player Murray & Roberts has nearly doubled the financial hit it is expecting to absorb from its work on the Gorgon LNG project, revealing nearly $63 million in additio

High rise is important in Perth but older buildings should be retained in a feasible and sustainable way.

Retired insolvency expert Geoff Totterdell, who has worked on some of the state’s best-known company collapses in a long career, has stepped into the job of overseeing development in the Peel region.