Peter Dowding

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

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.

WA experience has kept Perth's top PR firms on top of their game and prevented global companies from getting much of a look in.