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Machine learning could enable major advances in healthcare, expanding the power of the medical sector to spot problems early.

How should WA prepare for a productivity revolution driven by data science and machine learning?

Ambitious technology development in oil and gas makes the industry competitive but brings broader benefits to WA.

In a year in which businesses and their employees have been doing a lot of rethinking about how we work, there has been a boom in studying computer science, particularly in the areas of artificial intelligence, data science and cybersecurity.

One could be forgiven for thinking that the contemporary use of the term ‘disruption’ was bordering on overuse and beginning to lose its impact. In recent years, not a week would go by without another emerging technology or innovative business model concept being labelled as disruptive.

Each year, the cars we drive are becoming increasingly automated.

Allowing retailers to choose their opening hours and rethinking rules around tenancies, pop-ups, and approvals could help bring life back to Perth CBD.

Taking inspiration from the venture capital sector to shake-up cultural funding could support the tireless work of emerging talent, and unleash creativity.

Percent for Art schemes have led to growth in the amount of public art in WA, and the boom is just beginning.

I love this stunning city of ours – a glorious home between desert and sea.

The value and contribution of the arts to society is a question that has been postulated throughout human history.

Flexible work, targets and the income gap: Tania Cecconi of CEO's for Gender Equity speaks to Matt Mckenzie about the future of work for women.

Interviews with ridesharing and food delivery workers have found their experience is more nuanced than both critics and advocates have made out.

Bassendean business Hofmann Engineering illustrates both the opportunities and challenges facing WA as the government seeks to expand manufacturing.

WA has so far been spared the worst of COVID-19 but the experience has nonetheless triggered big changes in workplace management and planning.

Working remotely and connecting ‘virtually’ with workplace colleagues was already becoming more popular before the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has now been taken up in an unprecedented manner.

COVID-19 created rapid change, and the lasting impacts of the pandemic on offices and ways of working suggest that few “white collar” workers will return to a daily, 9-to-5 stint at the office anyt

There’s much enthusiasm and many ideas for dramatically cutting WA’s carbon emissions, but a rapid transition would come at a cost.

The quokka, Carnaby’s black cockatoo and southern right whale are high-profile Western Australian wildlife, but their longevity is not necessarily guaranteed.

Using seaweed products to replace plastic is just one of many Western Australian ideas under exploration to improve ocean health.

Around the world we’ve witnessed how during COVID-19 lockdowns, with fewer cars on the road, air quality in cities has improved.

Western Australia’s mining industry continues to make a strong economic contribution to our State and national economy, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, but this is partly contingent on m

Western Australia has 1,064,700 square kilometres occupied by agriculture, and this vast area is supported by 35,000 people working in the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries.

We will need to look decades ahead to choose between bigger regional cities or a much denser Perth when WA has more than 5 million residents.

When farming activity started in the Ord River irrigation area in the 1960s, the initial focus was on cotton.

Visionary infrastructure projects can drive huge advancement in regional communities, but the challenge is investing money wisely.

Encouraging workers to move north into the Pilbara may require a fresh approach to tax, particularly on home ownership.

KPMG Australia is the first of the “big four” accounting firms to open an office in the Pilbara.

For more than a century, regional Western Australia has been the engine room of the State’s economy generating as much as 90 per cent of export earnings.

Tragically, Western Australians are dying and suffering catastrophic injuries on our regional roads, resulting in immeasurable personal and social impacts.

Rio Tinto subsidiary Argyle Diamonds provides a case study in how marketing and product development can deliver an alternative path to value adding in the mining sector.

The history of value adding in the iron ore sector is a litany of missed opportunities.