Noel Dyson

THE Port of Fremantle will play a vital role in the fight against illegal fishing in Australian waters this weekend with the arrival of the South Tomi.

A BLOCKADE of the Australian Stock Exchange building in Perth by protesters on May 1 seems to have had little effect on the ASX.

WA’S growing popularity as a destination for incentive travel is expected to take off in the next two or three years.

A MAJOR review of the Perth Market Authority has been ordered by the new WA Government, just four months after by-laws suggested by a recent review came into effect.

AFTER the wave of train the trainer courses in the mid 1990s, WA-based coach Di Downie has decided to take the trend a step further and coach the coaches.

THE Port of Fremantle will play a vital role in the fight against illegal fishing in Australian waters this weekend with the arrival of the South Tomi.

A WA entrepreneur has found a way to make shipping containers, earthworms and compost mix.Source Organics managing director John Walker is using old shipping containers to house cages of earthworms and create compost.

SMALL business groups are welcoming the delay to Labor’s plans to repeal WA’s workplace agreements legislation.WA Labour Relations Minister John Kobelke had planned to have Labor’s industrial legislation in place by July 1.

DELAYS in getting the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre built could cost WA some of the $42 million expected to come from the 21 shows already booked for the venue.

HANGING onto your staff and taking an innovative approach to problems is the message from one of Perth’s biggest IT companies on surviving the downturn in the market.

A BROADCAST quality video-conferencing facility is turning the medical world on its head.

SMALL businesses are being called upon to make the most of the low Australian dollar and seek overseas markets.WA Small Business Minister Clive Brown is urging WA companies to expand their horizons and take advantage of new export opportunities.

A FORMULA for capping the retail fuel price capping in regional areas should be available by early May. Albany is mooted to be the first town to have the cap.

UK and US-based gangs are using the Internet to illegally access companies’ PABX systems and ring up hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of calls.

WA’S exporters are putting a trade blip during the past six to nine months behind them, with the weak Australian dollar helping them comfortably ride the downturn ahead of an expected boost in production.

THERE are few positions that come with the phrase “everything else” listed in the job description.

RESOURCE company Anglogold has ignored a trend that’s seen many successful businesses relocate to the east coast, deciding instead to move their headquarters from Melbourne to Perth.

AUSTRALASIAN Gold Mines has finalised a $14.6 million tantalum venture with US-based electronics giant KEMET Corporation.

BUSINESSES will receive a smaller reduction in workers’ compensation premiums than first thought because they will need to help fund a 5 per cent levy to meet the liability caused by the collapse of HIH Insurance.

SMALL businesses will have to wait and see what, if any, compensation measures the Labor Party is going to offer them.

PERTH City Council has won the battle to secure the prized 1500-bay car park beneath the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre. But will it win the parking war?

AFTER searching fruitlessly for a suitable business, Edda Emery decided to start one of her own.

SMALL businesses, disabled workers and low-income earners are likely to be the first to suffer under Labor’s repeal of the Workplace Agreements Act.

A COMMITMENT to customer loyalty and monitoring the business’ advertising results does pay off.

WA’S top government accountant, Des Pearson, is the new national president of Australia’s largest professional body, CPA Australia, the first Western Australian to hold the role for 15 years.

INSOLVENCY practitioners are expecting growing demand for their services as the combination of an economic downturn, the GST, the weak Australian dollar and poor business management takes hold.

SMALL businesses are demanding compensation for the increasing compliance burdens The Government is placing on them.

AFTER 33 years, Belmont-based pool manufacturer Buccaneer Pools could leave the Borrello family’s ownership.

THE chances of Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre becoming a reality have improved with at least one Perth parking operator wanting to buy a 99-year lease on the 1,500-bay car park, to be built below the centre for $50.4 million.

WITH WA’s economic downturn continuing and the GST biting cashflows, small businesses’ debt management is becoming more crucial.

TAKING a corporate approach to running an accounting practice is paying off for one WA firm.

CHANGES to the tax act to allow groups of wholly owned companies to be treated as single tax paying entities have been deferred for a year.