CLOSING the country-city divide, reducing the skills shortage in the agricultural industry, keeping people on the land and promoting agriculture in general are some of the key issues for new WAFarmers president, Trevor deLandgrafft.
KALGOORLIE is out to prove that has a cultural soul despite its diesel and dust image and, hopefully, raise $40,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service into the bargain.
WESFARMERS entity Kleenheat Gas has signed an agreement with GasNet to design, procure, build, commission and operate a Liquefied Natural Gas truck loading facility in Melbourne.
A SIGNIFICANT number of large mining and oil and gas developments are under way in and around Geraldton as the sector emerges from the shadow of the failed $2 billion Kingstream iron and steel project.
LAWYERS working in debt recovery are concerned about the implications of part of a package of seven bills aimed at making sweeping changes to Western Australia’s lower courts.
WITH Clive Brown announcing his intention to retire from politics at the next election, and assuming that Labor is returned to office, one question looms large – who will replace him as State Development Minister?
A PROPOSAL to consolidate the number of defence contractors from four to one or two could pose major concerns for the subcontractors that service the industry.
Almost $8 billion worth of defence spending is coming up in the next 10 years and WA appears ideally positioned to secure a large portion of that, as Noel Dyson reports.
THE move to raise court fees in the Local Court by an average 17 per cent from the beginning of February has started some mutterings within the legal community.
TWO years after buying into Australian Stock Exchange-listed plantation timber player Australian Plantation Timber, Integrated Tree Cropping has decided to take the ASX route.
