I have read with interest the many articles relating to the shortage of accountants and the various solutions being advocated to relieve the situation, the latest of which was titled ‘Continued shorta
In your editorial on interest rates, ‘As political theatre this doesn’t rate’ (WA Business News, April 14) you say: “From what I recall, Mr Howard never made a promise that interest rates wouldn’t ris
Not surprisingly, I have been fascinated by politics this past week or so. But not in an admiring way, more in that stunned, what-are-they-going-on-about way, when you shake your head and wonder if there isn’t something better they might all be doing.
While the Gallop Government was tabling its One Vote One Value Bill, a Melbourne University institute and The Australian newspaper were jointly hosting a national conference on Australia’s economy.
I am always amused to read Joe Poprzeczny’s weekly back-page opinion piece in WA Business News.The article titled ‘Conservatives deal themselves out’ (April 7) is a case in point.At some stage Mr Popr
Next time you receive one of those early evening calls from someone with the faintest sub-continental accent trying to sell you shares in Vegemite or raise money for surf lifesaving, put your feet up, answer the questions and think of Australia.
Lots of conservative-minded city and country Western Australians remain bitter about the Barnett-led Liberals’ needless loss of the February 26 State election.
Defeated Liberal leader Colin Barnett, like his predecessor Richard Court, promptly resigned from the party’s top parliamentary post after losing to Geoff Gallop.
Briefcase does not consider itself a lone voice in the wilderness but wonders whether anyone else in Perth has considered the bizarre situation evolving around the role of state governments in Austral
Conjecture as to why the ‘No’ case won the retail trading hours referendum is understandable and will no doubt be of considerable interest to social marketers, researchers, psephologists and politicia
Last week in the story ‘Alcock nurtures building sector’s next generation’ WA Business News incorrectly stated that Dale Alcock was the chairman of the Building and Construction Industry Training Fund
Western Australia’s Liberals have emerged in far worse shape from the February 26 election – at which they attracted 35.6 per cent statewide voter support – than after the February 2001 election when they scored only 34 per cent.