There are two committees in Perth that can be considered centres of commercial and public influence - the University of Western Australia's Business School board and the Committee for Perth.
Outside of government and business, there is a wide array of people in science, media, the law and other professions who are highly influential in Western Australia.
Western Australia's two major industry lobbies, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA and the Chamber of Minerals and Energy, have witnessed changes at the top during the past year, with new leadership taking the reins.
One of Western Australia's longest serving resources sector representatives, David Parker, has quit his role as a director of leading industry lobby group the WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy.
Ongoing disputation over government-provided education, including the so-called Outcomes Based Education (OBE) imbroglio, hasn't electorally harmed Premier Alan Carpenter who was, for several years, Labor's education spokesman and then education minister.
Gage Roads Brewing Company co-founder Peter Nolin has embarked on a radical career change to take over from John Longley as CEO of the Fremantle Chamber of Commerce.
LIONS Eye Institute founder Ian Constable and Wesfarmers managing director Richard Goyder were among the winners at the 36th Annual Western Australian Citizen of the Year Awards, announced last weeken
Subiaco-based Capital Intelligence Ltd plans to raise $2 million through a share placement, with funds to be used for working capital and expansion strategies.
The state government will increase funding to the private sector for apprenticeship training to $57 million, on top of the existing $20 million already available to private providers of traineeships.
Professor Ian Constable AO was the recipient of the inaugural Sir Charles Court Inspiring Leadership Award at the 2008 Western Australian Citizen of the Year Awards presentation last night.
The Acting Chancellor of The University of Notre Dame Australia, Dr Michael Quinlan, announced today the appointment of Professor Celia Hammond as its third Vice Chancellor.
The Cancer Council of Western Australia is a non-government community supported organisation dedicated to reducing the impact of cancer on Western Australians.
Alternative capital raising platform, the Australian Small Scale Offerings Board, has signed up Australian Securities Exchange-listed Ipernica Ltd as its second Western Australian accredited member.
