Alan Bond

The Singaporean owners of Scarborough’s iconic Rendezvous Observation City want to redevelop the 18-storey tower into a luxury residential apartment block in a $100 million plan that includes a new, eight-level, five-star hotel on the site.

THERE are plenty of residential developments that have a golf course as their focal point – and the Mandurah area has its fair share.

When Bob Williams gazes across the Perth city skyline to the CBD’s western-most high rise building he is clearly still enthralled with the structure that marks the high and low point for his construction career.

The recent publication of two listings of influential business leaders provided food for thought about the growing international influence on Western Australia.

A contentious $30 million, 125-apartment plan at the old bottleyard site on Palmerston Street on the outskirts of Northbridge is set to get the green light from the Metropolitan West Development Assessment Panel.

Kerry Stokes is one of Australia’s wealthiest and most private business leaders, but that has changed with the release of two biographies in two years. However conspicuous gaps in what we know about his deals and erstwhile partners remain.

The second of four extracts from Peter Kennedy’s new book examines the Rothwells rescue and the murky links between WA business and politics.

Treasurer Mike Nahan has defended legislation he introduced to end the long-running $1.7 billion Bell Group legal story after it was criticised by the Australian and Western Australian bar associations.

His light may have only shone briefly, but Alan Bond’s legacy remains etched in WA’s collective political and corporate memory.

Entrepreneur became a dirty word in WA. Thankfully that was just a phase.

Making sure all parties are happy with the allocation of seating at the new sports stadium will require some nimble footwork by the Barnett government.

Malcolm Turnbull’s business experience and familiarity with WA could be a plus for this state.

A New Zealand-based insolvency expert has been put in charge of a new state government authority that will decide how $1.7 billion from the Bell Group litigation will be distributed.

Mining and debt have always been a deadly combination, especially for investors, but toss in a stiff dose of politics and you have a brew infinitely more volatile for everyone, including government.

Eight years in the making, tighter controls over lobbyists may finally become law.

In his history of Rottnest Island, Laurie O’Meara looks to how the popular holiday destination’s future can be settled.

The High Court has dealt a major blow to the state government after ruling invalid legislation that would have propelled it to the top of the creditors’ list for the $1.75 billion carve-up of the failed Bell Group.

Whether Premier Colin Barnett stays or goes is a political decision, but it would be unwise for anyone to imagine that a change at the top of government will not have a significant effect on the way business is conducted in Western Australia.