ONE for the MONEY the BUSINESS of MAKING MUSIC PLUS POWER GAMES: PERTH’S ENERGY FUTURE • WA’S INFLUENTIAL 2Ics

INSWESTBUSINESS DERJune 2014 ONE FOR THE MONEY THE BUSINESS OF MAKING MUSIC PLUS POWER GAMES: PERTH’S ENERGY FUTURE • WA’S INFLUENTIAL 2ICs WESTBUSINESS WELCOME From the editor As a newspaperman I am more aware than most about how disruptive the internet has been for traditional business models. But the challenges that digital delivery And the beat goes on . poses for print is nothing compared with Making a buck in the music game used to be pretty the headaches it has caused the music straightforward. You just needed to sell as many CDs, cassettes or industry. vinyl records as possible. But how do contemporary bands turn a Exactly how WA musicians such as profit when their music is often downloaded for free? Nick Sas Gyroscope’s drummer Rob Nassif, who is examines an industry forced to adapt. P8-10 pictured on the front cover, make a living in the age of free downloads is the lead Powerful 2ICs story in this edition of WestBusiness Being second-in-charge of a company doesn’t mean your Insider. influence is neutered. Sean Smith identifies the 2ICs whose It is often quipped that State Treasurer position belies their real power. P12-14 Mike Nahan is so dry you can’t smoke around him but WA’s chief bean Don’t call him Ned counter shows a different The West’s cartoonist Dean Alston likes to portray him as the P22-24 side in a surprising profile. Simpsons character Ned Flanders but Ben Harvey finds the We look at the powers State Treasurer is anything but one-dimensional. P22-24 behind the State’s corporate thrones to reveal the PLUS businesspeople who are Wine: Stockbroker Tim Lyons opens his cellar. P14 influential second-in-commands. Travel: Etihad’s apartment in the sky. P24 And as world oil Fashion: A changing wardrobe for changing seasons. P27 markets shake in the wake of tensions in the Ukraine, Motoring: Taking on Phillip Island in a fleet of BMWs. P29 we throw the spotlight on P8-10 P17-20 WA’s energy future. EDITORIAL Ben Harvey Group business editor West Australian Newspapers. 08 9482 3752 [email protected] DESIGN John Henderson Ben PRODUCTION Heather McKinnon ADVERTISING WA: Elizabeth Poustie 08 9482 3254 [email protected] National: Peter Stevens 0412 922 839 [email protected] NSW: Charlton D’Silva 02 9252 3476 [email protected] VIC: Linda Nameh 03 9826 5188 linda@bofb .com.au Harvey QLD: Abby Rosamund 07 3844 5888 [email protected] SA: Tony Mangan 08 8379 9522 [email protected] Personal Design at its Best. Multiple Award Winning Homes • Outstanding Quality • Decades of Experience At Seacrest we help you maximise the potential of your block through a process that begins with sitting down and understanding your vision for your home. It’s all about creating a home that you will be proud of . Call Seacrest today to discuss the vision for your new home. TALK TO US TODAY ABOUT OUR CUSTOM DESIGN SERVICE. Tel 9302 6220 all hours seacresthomes.com.au Seet Studio 2727 WBI 12.06.14 INS GHT THE ART OF MY OFFICE WRITING A DAVID BUCKINGHAM NOVEL Technology can’t save I would describe my average day as half structured, half not. I try to keep There is meant to be a novel in everyone — but how do iiNet’s chief executive from the first hour of each day free so that I you get it on to the page? Some of WA’s leading writers can plan. There’s usually an give their tips on how to get started on your own book. morning pandemonium overnight shared download of thoughts with a few of our executive Amanda Curtin (Author of Elemental, Inherited eing brought up in the cold, dark team on one of the great balconies we and The Sinkings) mornings of England has not have in the building. Writers are readers. Reading raises your awareness Bmade me an early-morning My day is then set up. of style, structure, how language works, dialogue and person. I am not really a big fan of being in genre conventions. Write down ideas immediately and The alarm call usually goes off an office but it’s an unfortunate wherever you are. Keep a notebook with you, or use around 6.45am, unless our one-year-old necessity of the job, so I try to keep whatever’s at hand. But then go that extra step of dog or three children get there first. the door open and make sure I get out keeping ideas where you can retrieve them — in a box, The first three rituals of my day are regularly. in a file, pasted into a journal. Write what you know, a cup of tea for my better half, the Thankfully, we have many amazing but also write what intrigues or excites you, what garden for the dog and a bowl of food and interesting staff at iiNet so it’s makes you afraid, what you long for. Don’t be for the cat. easy to find someone interesting to go constrained by not knowing — that’s what research is Then the pandemonium begins — and talk to. for. Learn about the craft but you don’t have to learn three children to three different Being new in the chief executive everything before you start. Jump in and keep going! schools with three different packed role certainly means more requests lunches! for my time too, so I am learning to David Whish-Wilson (Author of Line of Sight and I throw some food at the fish in our become selective fast. Zero at the Bone) pond and dive into the car around I am fastidious about having a clean The art of writing, for me, means thinking of writing 7.45am. desk and have been amazed at my as a job. Thinking of it as a regular job is also a kind of I don’t tend to eat breakfast and try ability to keep paper at bay. mental trick that facilitates what is actually artful in instead to get through the morning When I am not travelling, my usual writing; the drawing on the dreams and the kind of picking away at the fruit bowl in my week entails a couple of long days creative thinking that’s going on 24/7, when I’m office. mixed in with a couple of short ones. working on a novel. And so I’m at my desk, at the same Our Subiaco office is a handy 10 I convert to a children’s taxi driver time every day, like a regular worker. But this is the minutes from home so I am up and around 7pm on two or three nights trick. Because I’m there every day, at the same time, running quickly. and use the others for myself. my mind knows that this is the best time to bring into Being out of the CBD is great for our I love to run home at least one night the light all of that otherwise murky material. business, too. It provided a fantastic through Perry Lakes and Tuesday opportunity to create a fresh and nights are an early departure to coach Robert Schofield (Author of Heist and Marble Bar) vibrant environment for our young at Wembley Downs soccer club with You have to write about something that you care staff team (average age 24), with pool my 10-year-old son and his school about, an idea that’s burning inside your head, tables, playstations, pingpong and friends. Great fun but one of the because you’re going to be shut in a room on your own plenty of food. toughest two hours in my week! with it for a year or more, and it has to stay alight for all that time. Then you have to read about that subject, My iiNet six-year Wembley Downs Soccer Obligatory Hawks scarf (iiNet is a and read a lot, and make notes. Hopefully all that stuff anniversary certifi cate Club thankyou gift sponsor but I’m a secret Dockers fan) will filter down through your subconscious, bubble away, and things will start to pop up to the surface. New ideas will appear, and you’ll start to make connections. Then you can start to write. Don’t think about the finished product, because it will send you crazy. Just keep plugging away. Think about one page at a time. Add one more idea each day and you’ll soon be surprised by what you’ve created. Stephen Scourfield (Author of As the River Runs and Other Country) There are three phases to writing that novel — having and developing the idea, doing the writing, then the publishing, Ike marketing and appearances. I focus on the first two. Enjoy having the idea in Irene your head; enjoy the process of getting it down in beautiful sentences. Do it for the sake of doing it; don’t worry about the last bit. Then do the final edit backwards, in big chunks, to smooth out the style (if you always work from the front, your mind always follows the same progression). Most important for My iiNet onesie for My proudly English vuvuzela from me is to have contact with the work the June Vinnies CEO the South African 2010 World Cup The kids Breakfast every day. If I miss a day, it stops. Sleepout charity event (I didn’t blow it much) fruit bowl Natural gas means more than energy to Australia.

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