Dr Kim Hames: man with a plan
WA's new Health Minister Dr Kim Hames seems to be a warmly welcomed replacement for Jim McGinty... Read More...
Features
Silver Chain’s Chris McGowan
Silver Chain has nearly 2,5000 staff and controls around 35% of the Health and Community Services public funding in WA, giving it a unique position within Western Australia's primary care infrastructure and luring CEO Mr Chris McGowan from South Australia. Read More...
Michael Malone – iiNet founder
iiNet co-founder and managing director Michael Malone is the epitome of the technology-based rags-to-riches success story that fuelled the Internet boom of the 1990s. Read More...
Health Reform Architect – Jim McGinty
He is the architect of change, the general behind the Director General, the man who would transform health in WA. As the long-serving Health Minister, the Hon Jim McGinty is pushing perhaps the most radical set of health reforms ever seen in this state. Read More...
Karl O’Callaghan – cops and medicos
WA Police Commissioner Karl O'Callaghan has seen it all in his 32 years of service. Like all policemen, he has done his share of beat walking and operational policing. He has overseen front line operations as District Superintendent in the Wheatbelt and South East Metro districts. He has even been in the hot seat as WA's ‘top cop’, which makes his observations sobering and chilling. Read More...
Tim Minchin, Comedian
Tim Minchin won the prestigious Perrier Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. This success catapulted him into the limelight and has made him hot property around Australia and in the UK but few know of his medical connections. Read More...
The Inside Word – Ruth Callaghan
The West Australian enjoys a unique monopoly among Australia's daily newspapers. As the state's only daily broadsheet voice, who determines what health and medical issues are covered and how? Ruth Callaghan has some of the answers Read More...
David Wirrpanda – off-field goals
West Coast Eagle David Wirrpanda is striving for something beyond an AFL premiership. As a passionate fighter for indigenous youth he has set up a foundation and other Aboriginal players are helping him. Read More...