✈️ 💸 There are now calls for a review of a WA government scheme subsidising air travel for regional residents after the AFR revealed the program has quadrupled in cost + raised concerns people could be using it for business in the Pilbara.
Story: https://t.co/aCP1DoCqHz
I don’t think it’s hyperbole the best investigative business journalist Australia has ever produced @NeilChenoweth is retiring today. His intelligence is only matched with his humility. I’ll never forget I got to work with the great man. We are all going to miss him terribly.
Basil Zempilas’ campaign manager has stepped down from the role.
Comes after AFR’s revelations his company commissioned polling that sparked a Liberal leadership crisis this week.
https://t.co/RQvUsPG8OX
An opinion poll that triggered today’s WA Liberal leadership crisis was commissioned on behalf of an unknown Perth businessman by a marketing firm run by the former campaign manager of Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas.
https://t.co/pXwIoPJIl9
MinRes has confirmed that CEO Chris Ellison operated an offshore tax evasion scheme & did a deal with the Tax Office but says it’s all OK and the board has complete faith in him. https://t.co/4mDGo3NYT3
Extraordinary number of ships at #singapore. All bunched up here because of Red Sea disruption to shipping and shifts in way things are being shipped. Fascinating. This is where commerce and geo politics come face to face
PM Anthony Albanese is scheduled to be dining with Airtrunk CEO Robin Khuda at the Perth home of Fortescue deputy chairman Mark Barnaba tonight.
Khuda has flown into WA for the occasion, having just celebrated the $23b sale of the company he founded.
https://t.co/TXhsnf5QxL
A year has passed since Mark McGowan quit politics citing exhaustion. Today he announced his *fifth* job, chairman for an energy company where the largest shareholder he met privately after a charity auction.
Tomorrow's column:
https://t.co/6sVe6Z1VSD
breaking: Fremantle Port will grind to a halt for 48 hours next week. Significant industrial action taken by key workers after months of wage negotiations.
No vessels will be able to come or go from Freo Port, or the outer harbour.