
COMING OUT OF AN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN
The current economic slowdown which hit Western Australia in mid-2015 has, we are told, bottomed out. Investment is rising in the resources sector, with employment figures for mining engineers (from Engineering Australia) showing solid growth this year though this increasing level of spending is yet to play through in any meaningful way into the retail sector. This latest economic downturn followed close on the heels of the global financial crisis which peaked in Australia in