Gary Kleyn

THE East Perth Redevelopment Authority is not the only group in WA with designs on the assets of the WA Trotting Association.

GOOD corporate citizenship is becoming a fundamental requirement of Australian businesses with the Federal Government also turning its regulatory focus on the issue.

THE Australian Taxation Office has issued a draft determination it hopes will clarify the requirements of public speakers with regard to the Goods and Services Tax.

WORK is expected to commence on building Australia’s largest portal crane for the Jervoise Bay development.

WHEN it comes to the question of whether to outsource a business’s fleet management practice, the same basic principles apply as with any outsourcing decision.

THE spate of new exploration mining companies coming on stream since the beginning of the year has yet to flow through into the job market.

GST compliance is proving an expensive drain on Australian business, but a $2 billion industry was being created in its wake.

THE All Ordinaries is no longer a meaningful benchmark for the Australian share market and should be consigned to history, according to fund manager State Street Global Advisers (SSGA), Australia’s largest index manager.

WHILE the WA Government is expanding its outsourcing agenda through new public-private partnerships, Perth’s academics believe the pendulum is shifting.

INTEREST rates may be near historically low levels, inflation well in check and the domestic dollar at a competitive rate with the US dollar, but all of this good economic management stands to be swept aside if the world’s

THE GST may have proved a bonanza for State governments, but the level of transparency has raised the eyebrows of Australian public policy observers.

THE end to the financial year is a prime time to take stock of the Australian share market – the star performers, the under-performers, and the likely hangover into 2003.

WESTERN Australia’s stamp duty and payroll tax imposts are major reasons novated car lease arrangements are proving attractive to business in this State, according to salary packager Paradigm Total Salary Management.

MORE than 30 per cent of all global mining expenditure will be conducted using e-business, presenting tremendous opportunities for WA mining supply firms, according to the Australian Trade Commission.

LAWYERS may not be exempt from the new provisions outlined in the Financial Services Reform Act, which came into force on March 11.

VITICULTURAL Asset Management has received another setback to its dream of developing a vineyard in Manjimup after failing in a bid to raise almost $20 million.

OSTENSIBLY designed to protect investors, the Financial Services Reform legislative package contains some requirements aimed squarely at those it sets out to assist.

THE distinctions between non-bank lenders and the large banking institutions are becoming increasingly blurred as the two sectors of the financial services reform their operations and encroach on each other’s turf.

MINERAL Commodities has announced plans to proceed with a pre-feasibility study at the Xolobeni Titanium project, 200 kilometres south of Durban in South Africa after receiving a $2.9 million grant from the South African Export

THE WA Chamber of Minerals and Energy has welcomed the findings of a report by the Auditor General into the administration of the mineral titles system, but believes the report should have taken a wider approach on the

OPPORTUNITIES abound for Homeloans Limited to move into the potentially lucrative wealth management business, adding value to its existing customer base in the process, according to the business’s managing director.

HOME Building Society has radically altered its business direction during the past year from that of home lender and property developer to financial planner.

IT was no real surprise this week when the De Grey Mining $4.5 million IPO closed oversubscribed on the day it opened.

A DROP in the world equity market and the rise in the Australian dollar has many investors nervously watching as their superannuation takes a step backwards.

Last week, WA Business News reported on the best times to buy new fleets. In his report this week, Gary Kleyn looks at different finance options available to businesses.

DIRT provider Peat Resources of Australia has had a wind-up order initiated against it by CGU-VACC Insurance Limited, which is scheduled to be heard by the Supreme Court on July 4.

THE power of public perception was enough to bring to one of the world’s largest accountancy practices to its knees.

THE Australian Tax Office says it has been inundated with investors willing to accept its terms after a second case involving mass marketed schemes was decided in the ATO’s favour.

A PERTH industrial relations consultancy is the first agency involved in the Office of the Employment Advocate’s Australian Workplace Agreements fast-tracking pilot program.

CAPITALISM as we know it will become a thing of the past and a new economic model will evolve that will ensure environmental and social sustainability, according to Deakin University corporate citizenship research unit director David Birch.

CURRENCY hedging is back in the minds of commodity producers as they watch their margins being eroded with each upward adjustment in the Australian dollar.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission is introducing electronic lodgement for liquidators, receivers and administrators, to improve the accuracy and consistency of data on corporate insolvency.