A couple of weeks ago, while outside at lunch from our day job in the city, we observed a band playing its heart out to about two people in Perth’s Women’s world cup ‘Fan Festival‘ or Fan-Fest. By the time we left work later in the day, only a few more rowdy fans had arrived […]
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Recently we were going through some of our old internet bookmarks and came across a link from 2015 on the controversy surrounding the then proposed logging of the the Mowen State Forest southeast of Margaret River in Western Australia. The article was published in the West Australian, authored by Daniel Mercer, but the only place
Following our article on the decreasing diversity of the Western Australian Economy, Gareth Parker on WAtoday has a couple of good articles on the same topic. Firstly on the increasing reliance of the Western Australian economy on mining and then on the implications of how in such an economy you are very dependent on supply
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Early on in the Proprietor’s career in the Commonwealth Government we examined a request for a Wholesale Sales Tax (WST) reduction for camper trailers (See the Australian definition here). Attached to this request was a large multiplier showing how the Australian economy would expand several times the size of the WST cut. We can’t remember
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As we write this, due to the Wuhan/Coronavirus the Australian Football League teams were playing matches in front of no spectators over a shortened season before the league was delayed entirely. The Western Australian Football League has been delayed until June, while junior training and games in Western Australia were also cancelled until June. We
