Opinion

A failure to invest in the good times may come back to bite ... again.

Long-term business strategies could become casualties of the downturn.

OVER the past 20 years or so, there has clearly been a growing, but until now unrecognised, systemic failure of the modern capitalist system, culminating in the US's sup-prime mortgage crash of 2007.

There seems to be a disconnect between the price of oil and petrol’s price at the bowser.

Australia has managed to avoid the excesses so prevalent elsewhere.

The federal Liberals may feel they’ve done it tough lately, but things could get a whole lot worse

Investing in 2009 will be counterintuitive – something that does not happen in the way you would expect it to.

Big companies’ behaviour in tough times is often predictable, but it’s just the market at work.

Rolled by her colleagues, what now for Julie Bishop’s political career?

The economic downturn presents great opportunities for innovation.

Labor’s state election loss last year may have changed the way the party works in WA forever.

Globally, high-capacity broadband is the infrastructure on which 21st century business will be built.

Major players face off in north-west access stoush.

WITH Western Australia's fourth referendum on daylight saving since 1975 to be held in a few months, State Scene thought it appropriate to take a look back at parliament's disgraceful record on this question.

Financial crisis may present opportunities for tax reform.

Perth is being left behind when it comes to major sports facilities.

WITH Western Australia's fourth referendum on daylight saving since 1975 to be held in a few months, State Scene thought it appropriate to take a look back at parliament's disgraceful record on this question.

THERE are 138 councils in Western Australia, 88 of which serve populations of less than 2,000 people and many of which are unviable.

Proposed IR changes will have a major effect on businesses across the nation

US Supreme Court ruling paved the way for financial meltdown.

Barack Obama looks set to follow a different foreign policy path than his precessor

IN a recent research report, my colleagues Rachel Ong and Richard Seymour of the Centre for Labour Market Research, and I investigated aspects of the lives of people living on the federal minimum wage.

Pressure to develop the state's north is only going to increase.

This is an edited version of Colin Barnett's maiden speech to the WA Parliament on September 12 1990.

Its time something was done about the staffing situation at Parliament House

FOLLOWING falls of unprecedented magnitude during 2008, the Australian share market looks set to recover some ground late in 2009.

I WAS pleasantly surprised to see a job vacancy advertised in the window of a restaurant last week.

I THINK it was Keith Suter who compared the global financial crisis to a 'big weekend' - too much to drink on Saturday, hangover on Sunday, cleansed and ready for work on Monday, the social commentator told a recent Technology and Industry Advisory Counci

IN Western Australia, there are many directors on boards of mining and other large organisations.

LAST week, State Scene outlined how Australia would have become a true democracy if the 1891 draft constitution of South Australia's democratic-minded premier, Charles Kingston, was adopted.

HOW much is too much when it comes to executive remuneration, especially bonuses and termination payments? This is the vexing question that's challenging the investment community more than ever before, as the market slide makes it a widespread issue rathe

THE controversy over the federal government's proposed industrial relations reforms made me think back to the mid 1980s when people like Charles Copeman led a bruising battle to free up Australian workplaces.