Business News Environment and Energy Minister Reece Whitby says there is no conflict of interest in holding both portfolios, after the state government announced sweeping change to the environmental approvals process. The changes announced this morning have been welcomed by industry groups but met with disappointment by environmentalists, with Conservation Council of WA president Richard Yin claiming he wasn’t […]
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WAToday Western Australia welcomed an extra 420,000 residents in the 10 years to 2021, with some suburbs sprawled along Perth’s urban fringe more than tripling in population to absorb the intake. Back in 2011, fewer than 100 people lived in the northern coastal suburb of Alkimos. But the master planned community, one of the biggest […]
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Business News More than half of new land purchasers in Western Australia during the recent quarter were investors, according to Urban Development Institute of Australia WA. UDIA WA’s urban development Index shows the proportion of investors in the market has surged from 28 per cent in the September 2022 quarter to 62 per cent in the […]
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