Richard Goyder, one of Western Australia’s most prominent business leaders, is leaving his home town “indefinitely”, joining a growing list of executives packing their bags for the east coast following Premier Mark McGowan’s sensational decision not to open his state up to the world as planned on February 5.The Australian Financial ReviewA fed up Richard Goyder is leaving Perth for Melbourne.“I just feel I want to take control of my life,” Mr Goyder said. “In WA I don’t have that.
A number of business leaders are seething over the backflip, believing they, and their employees, worked together to do all that was asked of them, only for the government to break its commitment.a fortnight ago, questioning how one of the world’s richest governments could not operate a health system capable of caring for its vulnerable citizens.
Wesfarmers was once a magnet for talent into Perth, helping alleviate a persistent “brain drain” from the resources capital. Mr Goyder, who has an apartment in Melbourne, will relocate after a Woodside board meeting in a couple of weeks. He will only return to live in Perth when the border is open and restrictions are more reasonable.
Can he please leave Australia as well?
Come on over dicky boy
WA Traitors
This is what happens when labor is in power. Don’t let this happen to Australia putlaborlast
An excuse to justify the inevitable move of Wesfarmers, an old fashioned autocratic conglomerate. iMany enormously larger businesses run HO no where near their major revenue sources with global oversight, exemplifies the old fashioned authoritarian style of many Au corporates.
Would the last person to leave WA- remember to turn out the lights