THOSE who are looking for Curtin Radio at its old 927 slot on the AM dial will be disappointed.The community station, which was facing the axe not so long ago, is now found at 100.1 on the FM dial.
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.
RECENT re-workings of capital depreciation laws are adding to the complexity and workload already stressed accountants are feeling, and their effect will be hitting taxpayers this year.
A NEW publication that aims to cater for the ‘forgotten’ singles aged 35 and above has hit Perth newsstands.Singles Issues is the brainchild of Impressions Corporate Public Relations’ Ron Berryman.
WITH the rancour of his controversial removal from the board of Skywest behind him, Miles Cattle is hoping to use his 10 per cent share-holding in the airline to ensure its future is sound.
THE Electricity Reform Task Force’s plan to create separate State Generation and State Retail electricity entities could be doomed to failure, according to the public version of a report commissioned by WA Treasury and Western Power.
AN international tax forum is being held in Perth on October 28 to discuss how other countries have gone about reforming their international tax arrangements.
SUBMISSIONS from suburban newspaper proprietors alleging that the Community Newspaper Group is waging a predatory pricing campaign against them are being filed with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
IT is often said that times of great change can make for strange bedfellows, and the proposed changes to WA’s electricity market have proved no exception.
Businesses will be forced to wait until at least early next year before the WA Government puts in place legislative changes to improve competition and help reduce prices in the State’s electricity market.
WITH the dot.com boom a fast-receding memory, electronic marketing is starting to become top of mind again as companies that invested heavily in second and third generation Internet technology try to recoup a return on that investment.
NEW schedules involving jet aircraft flights to Karratha connecting with smaller aircraft to open up WA’s north-west could be on the agenda for Skywest under new CEO Scott Henderson.
A UNIVERSITY of WA professor’s biography of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been a surprise hit.And publishers Allen Lane/Penguin have already commissioned a follow-up work.
WHILE Saturday’s bombing of a Bali nightclub has made a lot of Australians rethink safety issues, security companies are not expecting a huge spike in demand for their services.
PROPER due diligence is proving vital for Australia’s listed companies and their directors, as is demonstrated by reports from the Royal Commission into the collapse of insurer HIH.
WITH the sponsorship dollar increasingly difficult to come by, some of WA’s community radio operators are becoming more business-like in their approach.
WITH the Royal Commission into the Building and Construction Industry concluding its hearings in WA, some builders are questioning whether anything will actually change.
TEN new narrowcast licences have been assigned for WA, with three of them to be used for Perth’s airwaves.Two of the Perth licences have gone to a national Italian-language broadcaster.
BUSINESSES turning over less than $3 million a year will be drawn into the Privacy Act from December 21. The businesses affected are those trading in personal information that are related to a larger business or contract to Commonwealth agencies.
SOUTH Perth-based film company Storyteller Media Group is producing a one-hour documentary special to be shown on the Discovery Channel’s Animal Planet and a set of training videos aimed at helping rid the world of landmines.
