Great for the State 2020: Sharing Our Prosperity

Visionary infrastructure projects can drive huge advancement in regional communities, but the challenge is investing money wisely.

We will need to look decades ahead to choose between bigger regional cities or a much denser Perth when WA has more than 5 million residents.

When farming activity started in the Ord River irrigation area in the 1960s, the initial focus was on cotton.

Encouraging workers to move north into the Pilbara may require a fresh approach to tax, particularly on home ownership.

Tragically, Western Australians are dying and suffering catastrophic injuries on our regional roads, resulting in immeasurable personal and social impacts.

For more than a century, regional Western Australia has been the engine room of the State’s economy generating as much as 90 per cent of export earnings.

KPMG Australia is the first of the “big four” accounting firms to open an office in the Pilbara.