The third instalment from Peter Kennedy’s new book on WA’s recent political past examines the pressure on Carmen Lawrence to set up a royal commission into what became known as WA Inc.
Western Australia's native timber industry has expressed shock at the state government's blanket rejection of requests for financial assistance, predicting job losses and mill closures will result.
THE timber industry will seek the support of other industry groups in launching a proposed joint class action over losses from the state's gas crisis, if an official report into the explosion at Varanus Island cites negligence as the cause.
Moves by Planning and Infrastructure Minister Alannah MacTiernan to shift the timber industry to freighting its loads via rail rather than road have taken a new twist.
THE WA Seafreight Council has scheduled an industry workshop for later this month to address the expected surge in trade at Fremantle Port over the Christmas period.
Timber plantations in Australia increased in area by 4.5 per cent last year, yet in Western Australia the area devoted to new plantations declined significantly, according to the Bureau of Rural Sciences’ national plantation inventory.
THE timber industry should be pleased the WA Regional Forest Agreement has been signed, says Forest Industries Federation executive director Bob Pearce.
04 May 1999
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