Laurie Connell

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.

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

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

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.