Opinion

Federal Labor’s faction leaders need to think carefully before choosing the party’s new leader after what’s likely to be a devastating result in the September poll.

HOW do you define the word ‘reflection’?

WHILE having a strategy to grow your business is a good starting place, there are several key ingredients that go into making it a success or otherwise.

AS the March 9 election approaches, Western Australians are being enticed by both sides of politics with big-picture visionary projects.

Psst! Wanna buy a second-hand, slightly shop-soiled nickel mining business?

Expect both sides of politics to slug it out until election day over the cost of their promises.

Some bold vision is needed to create a 50-year housing and transport plan for Perth and surrounds.

A large number of small miners are scraping the bottom of the barrel, with tight funds hampering exploration and, therefore, viability.

As the state election campaign heats up, the focus is on fiscal responsibility more than ever.

The Arab Spring hasn’t unfolded the way many in the West would have wanted, with famine now a real possibility in Egypt.

ARE you passive, aggressive, or assertive? Only one way wins.

WHILE most businesses have a good idea of what they are driving their marketing efforts towards, few have pinpointed a destination and created a detailed roadmap to help navigate the options and ch

If Australia was a shop, the owner has just hung out a sign saying “closed until after the election”, a point driven home by instability at the highest level of government, the latest ludicrous attempt to boost manufacturing, and more so because no-one in business has dared criticise the loopy plan.

There’s little new or creative about either side’s approach to the state election campaign so far, with economic management, public transport and law and order front and centre.

Literary, artistic and theatre performances have a habit of creating memorable experiences at the most unexpected times.

Rather than embracing the economic opportunity its mining sector offers, South Africa is struggling with bureaucratic and labour problems.

The mining tax and public transport planning in Perth have one thing in common; they both show the danger of making policy on the run.

Julia Gillard may be busy running the country, dealing with ministerial resignations and the ongoing fallout from the Craig Thompson scandal, but speculation about what she knew of the Bruce Wilson/AWU ‘slush fund’ won’t go away.

SALES reps get a bad rap for trying to sell too hard.You’ve heard the term ‘pushy salesman’, ‘aggressive salesperson’ or even ‘obnoxious salesman’. How do those phrases make you feel?

YOUR team is probably fired up about grabbing more market share this year. If you want to achieve that goal, however, it’s time to look at your operation through a fresh lens.

The late Robert Holmes a Court loved what he called “black letter law” - written so tightly by governments that they thought no-one could find a loophole, but which to him was merely a mental puzzle - the sort solved by BHP Billiton as it revved up a 320-tonne Komatsu ore-truck and drove it through the minerals resource rent tax.

State Labor is aiming to trade on its reputation as the party that cares about public transport.

Both sides of politics will argue over costings until election day, but we can still expect a barrage of public transport promises.

After dealing itself out of the market in the early 2000s, Russia may take advantage of a resurgent palladium price.

Developments in Canberra and in the west highlight the need for reform of electoral terms and electioneering while in government.

The business dealings of China’s political elite and their offspring are shrouded in secrecy, but there’s no doubt about how lucrative those deals have been for the chosen few.

WHEN someone tells me to ‘have a nice day’, I don’t think they mean it. I think they’re just saying it as a kind of mundane, almost impolite, form of politeness. Forced nicety.

WITH better accounting systems and management information these days, it’s easy to be bombarded with loads of numbers and data about your business, without really appreciating what are the most imp

There will be some glum faces among the many Australian goldminers in Cape Town this week for the world’s second biggest mining conference, the annual Mining Indaba, because their favourite metal s

I AM sick of reading claims hyping me to ‘have my best year ever’ FYI: The trend of ‘best year ever’ was originated more than a decade ago by the late, great, Jim Rohn.

WITH a new year well under way, now is a good time to reassess your business’s marketing strategy ... and avoid common marketing mistakes that stand in the way of success.

Neither side of politics has yet managed to engage the electorate with a clear and comprehensive transport strategy.