Articles

She could sit on a yacht, take it easy on the beach, or selfishly stay out of everyone’s reach…

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Article featured in the December 2011 edition of Australian Resources and Investment Magazine – Volume 5 Number 5.

Sometimes I think we, as a nation, forget important fundamentals. Natural resources and people on the land and in our north contribute a major portion of the wealth of our country…

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West Australia: Business Hub in the Twenty First Century

Today I intend to outline very briefly, as excellent speakers before me have also given their views on this, our economic situation, speak about the challenges facing us as a nation and also mention the opportunity before us to transform ourselves into a growing business hub for this century, should we choose that path. …

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Article featured in the September 2011 edition of Australian Resources and Investment Magazine – Volume 5 Number 4.

Most Australian governments have had some understanding of the large capital investment required for long development horizons and the need to attract substantial investment. Mining is a high-risk business and commodity prices set on the world stage are notoriously volatile over the life cycle of any project. There is enormous international competition for capital and governments that introduce greater risk and expense do so at the peril of their own economies and people…

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North Queesland – The Case for a Special Economic Zone July 19 2011

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Address for the BOAO Forum Welcome Lunch on the occasion of the BOAO Forum’s First Visit to Australia – 10 July 2011.

The Honourable Mr Fukuda, Former Prime Minister of Japan and Chairman of the Boao Board; Distinguished Vice-Chairman Zeng and Madam Tang, Secretary General of the BOAO Forum Mr Jo; Distinguished Directors of the Boao Board; His Excellency Mr Chen Yuming, Chinese Ambassador to Australia, the Hon Premier of West Australia, the Honourable Colin Barnett, Ministers, future ministers, Distinguished guests and friends…

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Article featured in the July 2011 edition of Australian Resources and Investment Magazine.

In just one day, the global population will grow by more than 212,500 people, 625,000 people will be connected to the internet, 300,000 Twitter accounts will be opened, nearly 100,000 people will move to cities in China and India, 162,500 new cars will be sold and the world will use more than 17.5 million tons of coal. We live in a rapidly changing world. Too often Australians forget this. Let’s refresh ourselves with a few points: …

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Barry, it’s fantastic to be here. I look out amongst the glittering concourse of Perth and West Australian leadership in business and in finance and in so many other fields of life, and I feel very buoyed and exhilarated to be in this great state; the greatest state of our Commonwealth I am constantly reminded whenever I am here in Perth…

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Article courtesy Australia Resources and Investment Magazine. The comparisons between Australia and our neighbour Singapore are striking…

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Channel Ten stake a mine game

FEW people have yet worked out what Gina Rinehart is suddenly up to, or the fear that’s driving her. …

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