Mark Pownall

The dramatic growth in seaborne trade has made ports politically and commercially valuable.

Players have welcomed the implementation of the Knight review’s recommendations but some fear it favours universities.

Idyll or ideal? Is Rottnest our past or the present?

Patersons corporate finance chief Aaron Constantine doesn’t like too much attention.

Patersons deal maker Aaron Constantine has been named Australia’s best investment banker in the high profile East Coles survey of the sector.

Ensuring the benefits of WA’s minerals wealth are best utilised is a community-wide issue.

HBF chief Rob Bransby shakes his head in disbelief that people still smoke despite the warnings on cigarette packets these days – it is a good example of how hard it is to make people change their

The flurry of international alliances and branding changes that are transforming the Perth legal market look set to continue.

Bain & Co has opened a Perth office and insists it is in for the long haul.

WESTERN Australia’s peak business lobby group wants the personal tax rate lowered to the same level as the corporate rate, and for that figure to be competitive with OECD nations’ tax take. 

THE company behind the proposed James Point port at Kwinana is taking legal steps to confirm its right to build the state’s next container facility, a move likely to pre-empt the state government’s

Does Colin Barnett really think iron ore is like gold?

IN a state where fast-growing wages costs have been identified as the biggest financial burden on business, it is not lost on employers that payroll taxes are rising at the same pace and further in

A SURVEY of employer sentiment has shown Western Australian industry to be the most positive in the country, with more than double the number of businesses planning to add staff compared to the res

Beating up on the rich is counterproductive; we want more of them.

ANDREW Forrest is much more than just one of Australia’s richest people, he’s a showman who adds a little bit of Hollywood to what would normally be the dry and dusty world of iron ore.

THE private wealth of iron ore magnate Gina Rinehart has become a little more public in the past year, during which she emerged as Australia’s richest person.

WHEN Pankaj Oswal emerged with a 5 per cent stake in listed Phosphate Australia in late 2008 – a little more than $2 million for 5.5 million shares at an average of 36 cents each – he was at the to

Resources rule when it comes to directors’ wealth.

It would be easy to call the many names gathered on the  following pages a rich list, but it is not that simple.

LEADING academic John Yovich has emerged with a new commercial role in the student services sector following his departure from Murdoch University, where he was the state’s highest paid vice-chance

State governments are well within their rights to raise mining royalty rates.

THE ‘staff wanted’ signs may not yet be in every shop window as they were at the peak of the mining boom in 2007-08, but the wages that drew employees to the mines and forced other businesses to fo

Business is being swamped by rising costs that are hampering industry’s ability to respond to the boom.

PROPERTY company Australand has received a boost to its plans for higher-density development at its Jindowie project in Perth’s northern coastal corridor, with confirmation from the state governmen

SWEEPING changes to the regulation of Australian-registered ships operating on international trade routes may open the door to more of Western Australia’s resources being carried by locally owned v

Federal government intervention in major energy projects is perplexing to say the least.

THE state’s Environmental Protection Authority has pre-empted potential concerns about using hydraulic fracture stimulation to extract gas from underground formations in Western Australia with the

THE Western Australian business community was this week mourning the loss of one of its most influential figures of the latter half of the 20th century with the passing of Frank Cross, aged 100.

PREMIER Colin Barnett is considering another visit to China to spruik investment in Western Australia, most likely including his pet Oakajee port project, which needs a major capital injection to g

PERHAPS no other sector of the Australian mining industry finds itself quite so precariously balanced on the tightrope stretched taut by global demand over a deep pit of uncertainties than magnetit

CASHMERE Iron might have stirred up a hornet’s nest with a deal to fund the development of engineering plans for the expansion of Esperance harbour, but there is little sign that the budding miner’