Opinion

In your editorial of June 24, rightly paying tribute to Michael Chaney’s great achievement, you remind us that in 1994 Western Australia was an international joke and viewed as corporately corrupt.

Geoff Gallop-led Labor goes into the coming State election fully aware that it gained power in February 2001 largely because of one Liberal minister’s mismanagement, as well as misfortune in the case of the Nationals.

Down here at WA Business News we thrive on the fact that national media generally forget Western Australia exists, leaving a convenient vacuum for us to fill – but even so I sometimes get amazed at what is missed by our peers in Sydney and Melbourne.

I am writing with regard to Tim Treadgold’s column ‘Shieldliner piping for ASX listing’ (WA Business News, May 13).

STATE Scene first raised the prospect of an upper house Liberal MP resigning from his party, and paving the way for the re-introduction and successful passage of Attorney-General Jim McGinty’s one-vote-one-value draft legislation through that chamber, on

THERE are times when a window of opportunity appears only once in a generation. In the case of Western Australia’s electronic science

JOHN Howard has wined and dined on his occasionally used nickname, ‘Honest John’.

THE 56-to-54-vote at last Saturday’s Liberal Party State Council, confirming the dumping of single term upper house MP Alan Cadby, clears the way for a February State election.

THIS Saturday’s Liberal Party State Council meeting promises to be the most crucial and bitter in decades.