The Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Small Business Dr Steve Thomas says the Premier’s announcement of $77 million for compensation for COVID impacted businesses is a tokenistic pledge that...
The Shadow Minister for Small Business Dr Steve Thomas says the Government’s redundancy packages for workers in the timber industry are welcome, but that by comparison the support for businesses in...
The Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Small Business says the Premier has no choice but to set and announce a threshold of “a very high COVID caseload” and a date for his transition to...
The Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Small Business says businesses across the state face a COVID D days both today and tomorrow as the next stage of the Government’s vaccine mandates kick...
The Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Small Business Dr Steve Thomas says that business and industry have been left to carry the can for compliance with the McGowan Government’s COVID rules,...
Dr David Honey MLA, Leader of the WA Liberal Party and Shadow Minister for State Development has called out the State Government for leaving the construction industry high and dry after pulling out...
The Shadow Treasurer Dr Steve Thomas says that the latest State of the State report released by CommSec has highlighted to the strength of the Western Australian economy but also raised some...
The Shadow Treasurer and Shadow Minister for Small Business Dr Steve Thomas says that business would continue to pay the price for the even greater uncertainty created by last night’s confirmation...
This opinion article appeared in The West Australian on 20 January 2022: There was an interesting article on page 19 of the business section of last Wednesday’s West Australian, in which Perth...