Noel Dyson

THREE decades after the equality push of the 1970s, women’s pay is still lagging behind that of their male colleagues, particularly in WA.

A PUSH to give frontline mine managers some form of management qualification has provided a boost for the training industry and led to improvements in the operations of some of WA’s largest mines.

TWO Western Australian companies have been taken to court for misleading advertising, one by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and the other by

WHILE a sense of gloom pervades the local advertising industry, the news from the marketing industry is much more positive.

CHRISTMAS Island phosphate miner Phosphate Resources Limited faces dual challenges to its fund raising plans, with a board spill campaign being threatened by disgruntled shareholders and the Australian Securities and Investments Commission placing

PLANNING marketing and sales offerings around special occasions can be a successful way for small businesses to build their profits. Traditionally these dates included Mothers Day, Fathers Day, Christmas and Easter, how-ever, Australia Day and Anzac Day

CHRISTMAS Island is on the verge of shrugging off its phosphate mining roots and embarking on a space-driven future.

WA-BASED business angel Churchill Capital has helped Victorian-based Boron Molecular complete a $1.9 million capital raising ahead of a planned Australian Stock Exchange listing for the pharmaceutical player in the first half of this year.

WHILE the 107 recommendations from the Review of the Occupational Safety and Health Act have proven controversial, review author Bob Laing insists his main aim was to get employers and employees talking about workplace safety.

WHILE 2003 may not have had quite the bleak beginning of 2002, talk of cutbacks and consolidations within the advertising industry is rife. A fall in consumer confidence and the Western Australian Government’s decision last year to cut its advertising

ACCORDING to figures tendered to the Western Australian Electoral Commission, the Australian Labor Party finished the 2001-02 financial year with a $66,000 surp

NEXT year looks like a strong one for the recruitment sector if the strong growth enjoyed in 2002 continues to build.

A COMO-BASED company could emerge with 35 per cent in Christmas Island’s monopoly miner Phosphate Resources Limited, which is negotiating with the Federal Government for compensation worth tens of millions of dollars for a controversial detention centre.

A RECENT union attempt to use the enterprise orders created by WA’s new industrial relations laws has highlighted the Australian Industrial Relations Commission’s unwillingness to engage in State-based industrial relations issues unless some form

  POSTERS used as part of a promotion to garner public support to the City of Perth’s push to sink two railway lines have become an unlikely souvenir, particularly for English back-packers. Featuring the London Underground logo and the tagline: “As

FEDERAL Labor politician Carmen Lawrence has written to a Fremantle cafe that decided to opt out of WA’s industrial relations syste

CHRISTMAS is traditionally a busy period for most businesses, but so too is the trading lull in January considered something of a tradition.

WHILE a recent survey showed that Australians were more committed to their job and their company than most of their international colleagues, the question for most managers remains … what keeps staff committed? The survey, conducted by Taylor Nel

NEXT year looks like a strong one for the recruitment sector if the strong growth enjoyed in 2002 continues to build. After a difficult 2001, blighted by corporate collapses around the world and hit even harder by the September 11 terrorist atta

ONE of WA’s most successful travel industry trade titles is launching a spin-off publication aimed at the general travelling public. Traveltalk Asia-Pacific has been a travel industry staple for more than two decades and is now releasing a retail version

COMMUNITY radio station Groove 101.7FM has been granted a permanent, full-time licence.The 18-week-old youth station currently operates from 3pm to 3am, sharing its frequency with senior’s station Capital Community Radio.Groove founder and station m..

A SHORTER working week, better training, safer workplaces, job security, paid maternity leave and a more family-friendly approach to work issues are the key priorities of the union movement.UnionsWA secretary Stephanie Mayman said workers had moved a...

WORKING out the best ways to spend the training budget is an increasingly important decision for a business’s management.While well-trained staff can make or break a business, training can be a significant cost for many organisations. Human resources...

GUERILLA marketing – the technique that promised to give small businesses a way to win the promotions battle with their bigger competitors – does not appear to be living up to the hype.Indeed, many marketing experts say guerilla marketing is just ano...

A COMPANY that rose from the ashes of the failed Geraldton Building Company has won nearly $1.6 million in WA Government contracts in the year since the collapse of Mid West’s biggest construction firm.The company, Geraldton Building Services and Cab...

THE Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is claiming a victory in its battle to become part of a site agreement between three other unions and Woodside Energy on the Burrup Peninsular.

Business leaders who gathered at a WA Business News forum last week agree that the Electricity Reform Task Force’s report will mark an important first step in the long journey to get much-needed electricity market deregulation

THERE’S a feeling among some public relations industry players that they are stealing a march on the advertising profession and winning control of the marketing budget.

THE coal industry is readying itself for a battle to become the electricity generation fuel of choice.

BUSINESS leaders have turned on Opposition Leader Colin Barnett for his steadfast opposition of any proposals to break up Western Power.

THE proposed break-up of Western Power is a major concern for the many WA sporting and community groups to benefit from the power utility’s$2 million annual sponsorship spend.

THE battle for control of the workers on development works at the Burrup Peninsular in WA’s North West is heating up.