PERTH NOW THE State should start planning for a second city that is not Bunbury, as well as a second international airport, according to the WA Planning Commission. WAPC chairman David Caddy, speaking to an Urban Development Institute of Australia WA function about the short-term planning agenda — including implementing Metronet, overhauling the State’s strategic […]
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THE AUSTRALIAN FINANCIAL REVIEW The near-doubling of a new tax on foreign residential property investors in Western Australia has been criticised by development and property experts, who claim it will slow economic recovery. The recent state budget increased a residential foreign buyer tax from 4 per cent to 7 per cent before the commencement date […]
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THE ECONOMIC REGULATION AUTHORITY (ERA) RECENTLY RELEASED THEIR DRAFT REPORT INTO MICROECONOMIC REFORM IN WESTERN AUSTRALIA. THIS IS A BOLD LOOK AT POTENTIAL CHANGES AND THE IMPACT THAT THEY COULD HAVE ON THE ECONOMY. A small forest long (350 pages), the report looks at a massive range of concepts including congestion charging, retail trading hours […]
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