Noel Dyson

Business could face increased costs of up to $174 million in the first year of the Gallop Government’s new workers’ compensation laws, according to the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has started an investigation into beleaguered shipbuilder Wavemaster International, which has been in financial turmoil for some months.

PORK growers are calling for a restructure of their industry to ensure it remains strong in the face of growing imports and domestic pressures.

FAL supermarket chain Action has launched a reverse petrol discount plan that offers its customers money off their grocery bill based on the amount of petrol they have bought.

The Collie Shire Council is suing the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to recover some of the $200,000 it is owed in unpaid rates from the Wellington Heights development, a land parcel embroiled in the finance brokers’ scandal of three yea

Is he an architect? Is he a healthcare research advocate? Is he a trade promoter for Western Australia? Is he a motor racer?

Leading businesswoman Janet Holmes à Court has successfully petitioned the Supreme Court of Western Australia to put liquidators into failed cattle business Nebru Plains.

A BIDDING battle is under way as shareholders jockey for best position ahead of the release of Skywest’s prospectus on October 11.

What a year it has been for WestNet managing director Peter Brown.

China is proving a happy hunting ground for Advanced Engine Components with the company signing a second deal there that could be worth at least $4 million.

Recently-listed miner Chameleon Mining is facing a winding-up motion over a $200,000 debt claimed by a former consultant.

THE Australian Tax Office may bring an end to Terrace Proms, the event that brings classical music to the foyers of buildings on St Georges Terrace once a year.

WESTCARE Incorporated has signed an agreement with the Balinese Government for cooperation on tuberculosis prevention in Bali.

The proposed Australian Stock Exchange floats of Talisman Mining and Merlin Petroleum have stalled for a lack of investor interest.

Four multi-purpose taxi licences have been advertised for lease, the last of the eight the WA Government promised to release this year.

A move into property development has resulted in Adultshop.com founders Malcolm Day and Rodney Smith being hit with a $1.3 million Supreme Court writ from construction giant John Holland, the company building their five-storey apartment complex at 2 Belle

MEDIUM-SIZED businesses, property investors and employers failing to meet their tax obligations are all likely targets of the Australian Tax Office’s beefed-up audit division.

THE liquidator of Rowena Nominees, one of the vehicles used by failed finance broker Graeme Grubb, is seeking $6.4 million from 122 investors in two managed investment schemes Rowena was financing.

THE collapse of General Practices Division of Western Australia highlights a problem in the way some not-for-profit organisations account for their funds.

WHILE the profile of listed financial services platform provider JDV Ltd may have dropped since it parted ways with its broking

Western Australian aviation company Airflite has won a six-year, $17.6 million contract to maintain 97 different mechanical and avionics components on the Royal Australian Air Force’s PC9/A aircraft.

Shipbuilder Wavemaster International is confident it can meet its creditors’ demands, despite more writs having been lodged.

Retirement village operators in the not-for-profit sector have had both a win and a loss over the GST treatment of their operations.