WHILE new Australian Stock Exchange rules for corporate governance should be viewed as a victory for common sense, I can’t help wondering if it is all too little too late – and not just from the regulator.
IT was disappointing that REIWA was implicated in your story “Agent to Face Inquiry” (WA Business News, March 20 2003) as the apparent source of media comment on a matter concerning a REIWA member age
THE recent setback for the development of the Burrup – with delays to the Canadian-based company Methanex’s plans to build a methanol plant – shows how fragile investment in major projects can be in a global economy.
YOUR editorial of February 6 noted that it was “time to clean up the mess” in WA. Your commentary stated that: “We simply haven’t got the economies of scale to efficiently deal with this issue”.
THE issue of Western Australia’s freshwater needs persistently rates highly in party political and other local polling.
Press reports showing quarter-full dams and constant chatter about the so-called greenhouse effect have had their impact.
ON 16th January, WA Business News published an article regarding Ningaloo Reef and Australian Wildlife Conservancy entitled “Wedged on the Reef”.AWC and its directors, Martin Copley and Barry Wilson,
ALCOA watchers would have had a fascinating few days last week.
The company’s Australian-born executive vice president John Pizzey was here for a few days and did some high profile presentations.
ELECTORAL Affairs Minister Jim McGinty’s decision to embark on a costly High Court challenge to the weighting of WA’s rural electorates provides a suitable opportunity to revisit this issue.
IT’S an old chestnut, a centuries old law that is a key plank in our legal system – the fact that someone acquitted of a charge may not be tried again for that particular offence.