May 2020

The political dance that commences a year out from each state election has parallels with the origins of the term ‘Cargo Cult’ which emerged across the pacific during the Second World War. As a result of the conflict, village communities had become conditioned to looking to the sky, awaiting poorly targeted parachute drops which ended up supplying local villages with all manner of war goods. Following the war, villagers then began to see strange people

Back in 1936 when The University of Western Australia established the independent faculty of Agriculture there was only one university to support the states 25,000 farm businesses. Eighty-four years later and there are now around 5,000 farm businesses, and the State has five universities with four (UWA, Curtin, ECU and Murdoch), offering competing undergraduate agricultural science and business courses. While the two oldest sectors of the WA economy, minerals and agriculture, are likely to pull

Sarah Smit and Trevor Whittington As we increasingly spend our days combing through the latest coronavirus announcements trying to stave off catastrophe for our business and families, traffic on news sites has gone through the stratosphere. Unfortunately, the same crisis that is boosting demand for news content is putting hard brakes on print news revenue. What we are seeing as a result is the end game for many local print publications that have long been