SARS could cost Western Australian educators tens of millions of dollars and potentially leave a more than $200 million hole in university budgets around Australia as they close campuses and reschedule classes in Asia.
WESTERN Australian-based integrated engineering company RCR Tomlinson Ltd has secured the rights to commercialise development of a revolutionary particle classification system, or rotary classifier.
WA’s isolation and sheer size is a hurdle that WA business people have had to deal with since federation. Today, a growing band of entrepreneurs is overcoming the tyranny of distance by building or buying their own aircraft.
THE reinvention of Perth technology companies has continued, but rather than mining or agriculture, this time it’s aquaculture that has breathed new life into a struggling business.
Citibank shapes up
CITIBANK Pty Ltd has agreed to improve disclosures in its advertising following an investigation by the Australian Securities and Investment Commission.
LEEDERVILLE-BASED firm An Meá has secured a contract for work on the Sakhalin II Project, considered to be the largest liquefied natural gas project, and the greatest single infrastructure project in the world.
ECONOMIC forecasters may be tipping an economic surge in Western Australia, but, in the light of tough trading conditions, employers are yet to buy into it.
Choosing a personal insurance policy is one of the most important investment decisions an individual will ever make. In the first of a four-part series, Gary Kleyn considers life insurance.
BY international standards they may be just backyard operations, but many Western Australian firms are punching well above their weight in the international oil and gas and mining sector.
BANKERS are gaining favour among their clients according to a recent report, which found a sharp decrease in the number of complaints from bank customers.
The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australian (CCI) with the support of the WA Government’s Department of Industry and Technology.
THE Federal Government’s export grant program is becoming a victim of its own success, with an increasing pool of exporters clamouring for a grant prog
THE mortgage broking industry is under further scrutiny following the release of two reports suggesting the existence of significant problems within the current regulatory framework.
A WA company’s international experiences give it an advantage in a post-war Iraq, as Gary Kleyn reports.
A WESTERN Australian communications firm is quietly infiltrating the world’s defence force and peacekeeping business fraternity.
A PLAN for the Federal Government to sell its loss-making credit insurance business has hit a potential snag as proposed purchaser European-based giant Gerling reels from the impact of the worldwide reinsurance crisis.
THE Australian Securities and Investment Commission has called off its investigations into AMP Limited after the insurance company agreed to contribute
THE Australian Taxation Office has announced its intention to tax all foreign employees working in Australia for the benefit of local businesses, even if their employment contracts are with a foreign employer.
THE Goldman Sachs Group and JB Were have agreed to merge their Australian and New Zealand businesses into a new venture, to be called Goldman Sachs JBW
