Noel Dyson

A PERTH-based business incubator will not only offer its tenants business advice and lodgings, it will offer them seed capital too.

ENERGY is a competitive business, even in the isolated market of WA which seen price falls unequalled in the rest of Australia.

THE old Omni Theatre site’s run as a cinema has come to an end.

THE Soccer Stadium planned for the Perth Entertainment Centre car park may prove Northbridge’s best chance of providing a link with the CBD.

NORTHBRIDGE is a safer place to visit than a year ago, according to statistics which contrast the public and media perception about crime in the popular night spot.

SMALL businesses may face an easier Business Activity Statement form by the time their next quarterly BAS is due.The Australian Tax Office is considering feedback from quarterly BAS remitters with a view to modifying the form.

WA’S rural economies are going to be more than $1.3 billion poorer this year after drought impacted heavily on the State’s grain harvest.

A WA Government department has been accused of heavy handedness in its dealings with complaints against WA councils.

COUNCILLOR Tess Stroud will represent the Perth City Council on the Swan Bells Foundation.

THE Film and Television Institute is staging a seminar to explore the latest information and government thinking on Web casting.

RESIDENTS of an exclusive East Perth’s address won the right to park on their street, after Perth City Council overturned a recent decision to ban parking on Henry Lawson Walk.

WA’S workers’ compensation system is failing injured workers, claims former miner Leanne Riley.

GETTING the corporate culture right is the way to foster growth, says Deloittes Touche Tohmatsu WA managing partner Keith Jones.

WA’s biggest non-Government superannuation fund Westscheme has doubled its funds under management during the past three years to hit the $500 million mark.

THE Eastern Region Business Enterprise & Arts Centre has won both the innovation and highly commended awards at the Australian & New Zealand Association of Business Incubat-ors’ awards.

PERTH City Council is investigating the demolition of a 19th century West Perth house amid a rush of land clearing in the area.

AN INDUSTRIAL Relations Commission case, to be decided next month, threatens to redefine the WA employment framework.

PERTH City councillors do not want council staff counting votes for next year’s local government elections.

LARGE corporations can now offer their staff access to eight million telephone numbers in-house with a new intranet package.

VICTORIA Park is close to finalising limits for new developments in a bid to settle the controversy surrounding high-rise building in the area.

DESPITE tightening access to common law claims and reducing the recommended workers’ compensation premium rate by 10 per cent, WA premium rates have still blown out.

ALL is not well in small business land, according to the latest Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry small business survey.Most small businesses expect the economy to do well but their own firms to do poorly.

OSBORNE Park-based manufacturer Solar Energy Systems is seeking $5 million through a public float to finance its efforts to take a bigger slice of the fast growing renewable energy market.

TAX advisors have warned up to 40,000 small businesses face bankruptcy because of the GST.

REINVENTION is the key to any business, says Civic Theatre Restaurant owner Max Kay.“Nothing is just ‘good enough’ when people are paying. You can’t afford to be complacent in any business,” Mr Kay said.

THOUSANDS of businesses are believed to have missed the November 11 deadline for their quarterly Business Activity Statements remittance.Most recent Australian Tax Office figures are for two weeks before the due date and show only 250,000 had been colle

MOTORISTS are not just feeling the Federal Government’s bite at the bowser. Australian oil is getting taxed at the wellhead too.Besides the petrol excise, the Government also takes 40 per cent of a company’s oil project profits through its rent resource

MATHEMATICS is a discipline in despair, according to the latest Federation of Australian Scientific and Technological Societies report.

WHILE Australia ranks fifth worldwide in terms of Internet use – with 45 per cent penetration – it lags behind in online shopping with less than 10 per cent of Australians buying on the Internet.

PLANNING for Perth’s eastern gateway could begin as early as December.The eastern gateway is the area near the Causeway including Police Headquarters and the WACA Ground.The East Perth Redevelopment Authority, which has responsibility for the eastern

IN THE six years David Hatt has been general manager of the Fremantle Dockers, the club has recorded a trading surplus of between $1.2 million and $2 million a year.In fact, the Dockers recorded the fourth highest revenue of any AFL club for the 2000 se

CANNING College is offering students the chance to become MOUSe ready.The Tertiary Entrance Exam-focussed facility, is letting students study and sit exams for Microsoft Office User Specialist competencies.