Mark Pownall

No wonder people get cynical about politics.

More than four decades after it was started by general practitioner Kevin Cullen, the landmark Busselton population health study is the subject of growth plans that could substantially broaden the use of its valuable data.

The Real Estate Institute of Western Australia has highlighted the tight supply of commercial and industrial land in Perth, questioning the number of potential industrial lots, which reportedly stands at around 1,500.

This week’s ratification by Australia of the Kyoto Protocol has helped push the share price of one of the nation’s few environmentally focused stocks – CO2 Group Ltd.

Sydney-based company, Compass Hotel Group Ltd, is forecasting strong revenue growth across a swath of high profile Western Australian pubs it plans to buy as part of a $190 millio

Is one of the answers to our skills shortage right under out noses?

The resources sector is again at the forefront of community initiatives, with BHP Billiton Ltd committing $5 million to fund resources research and education at the University of Western Australia Business School.

I don't pretend to have known Matt Price well but, like a lot of people, he touched my life and I will always remember him.

Now that the federal election is over there’ll be a few former Liberal MPs looking for work.

Former Perth lawyer Simon Taskunas has become a partner of Freehills in Singapore where he has a property focus.

Booming iron ore exports have pushed resources royalties to the state government above the $2 billion mark for the first time.

Outspoken former Western Australian Liberal Leader Colin Barnett will not contest the next election.

It's official, Wesfarmers Ltd has become the Western Australia's most valuable company, the state's biggest employer and the nation's biggest retailer with today's implementation of a scheme of arrangement to take over the Coles Group Ltd.

Last week I outlined where I thought John Howard went wrong 18 months ago, and why I think it has put him in a losing position now.

If ever there were a single indicator of the strength of Western Australia’s economic good fortune, tycoon Stan Perron’s private investment empire would be it, having basically trebled its profits in just four years.

The booming advisory market is creating some musical chairs among the key players, with corporate lawyer Justin Mannolini heading to Gresham Advisory Partners, prompting Freehills to fill the vacancy by appointing Simon Reed.

The booming advisory market in Perth is creating some musical chairs among the key players, with corporate lawyer Justin Mannolini heading to Gresham Advisory Partners Ltd, prompting Freehills to fill the vacancy by appointing a new partner, Simon Reed.

If ever there was a single indicator of the strength of Western Australia's economic good fortune, tycoon Stan Perron's private investment empire would be it - basically trebling its profits in just four years.

Botanist turned CEO, Andrew Grant, believes there has been a sea change in attitude to environmental issues from corporates in Western Australia.

As the titans of Pilbara iron ore flirt with each other, Andrew Forrest makes his dreams a reality, and the minnows of sector fight over control of the Mid West’s resources, it’s little wonder that almost $7 billion of new investment plans have gone almos

I may be one week premature on this, but with just more than a week to go before the federal election, I thought it was worth discussing the poll.

It might be little more than a historic footnote in corporate Western Australia, but the delisting and privatisation of Avatar Industries Ltd marks the end of an era.

This column is not about the forthcoming election, but I do have to kick off with a story about voting.

With so much wealth sloshing around Western Australia’s mining sector it would be easy to believe many in the industry had hit the jackpot.

The 40-year-old CWA House in Hay Street, West Perth, has been bought by Belmont-based construction company Diploma Group Ltd, which has a 30-apartment luxury residential development for the site in its float plans.

Great Southern Ltd has agreed to buy 14,700 ha of plantations and 50 per cent of a Bunbury woodchip mill for almost $50 million from entities linked to Korean-based Hansol.

Followers of the nickel sector are expecting further takeover activity after Swiss group Xstrata stunned the market with a $3.1 billion bid for Perth-based Jubilee Mines NL.

Mezzanine debt markets may be considered an unusual playground for a Perth-based start-up, but when you have the expertise and you want to live in Western Australia, innovation is required.

On Monday last week, Ric Stowe’s private Griffin Group released a statement claiming success for an experiment to reduce salinity levels at Wellington Dam.

There is a lot of debate about whether the state government is doing a good enough job to manage us safely through this current boom.

Perth-based health insurance and financial services player HBF has revealed a 36 per cent increase in underlying profitability, boosted by strong investment market returns.

Few leading business figures could manage to look as comfortable as Peter Holmes a Court late on a Friday afternoon in the busy front bar of the Cottesloe Beach Hotel.