Noel Dyson

IT IS official. Without the Port of Fremantle, WA would be $728 million worse off.An economic impact study of the port found it was one of WA’s most significant individual sources of jobs and revenue.In 1998-99 the direct and flow-on effects of th...

CPA Australia believes a new Parliamentary report on the Financial Services Reform Bill (CLERP6), moves the industry, practitioners and consumers a step closer to more certainty about financial planning advice.A measure in the report, by a Joint Par...

FREMANTLE City Council is close to pulling out of the economic development of the port city to concentrate on more “big picture” issues.It is also considering rationalising its $73 million property portfolio.Council strategic planning group manage...

WA ENGINEERING firm Clough has won a $60 million contract to develop an oil and gas field in the Bay of Bengal.

FINDING a way to stop bore water stains qualified a WA company for the finals of this year’s Yellow Pages Business Ideas Grants.Aquabiotics managing director David Bennett said the idea was simple. Like most “simple” ideas, it took two years to deve...

A NEED to leave the nomadic lifestyle of a geologist sparked arguably one of the most successful business careers in WA.

WA’S newest telecommunications carrier Swiftel Ltd has started its Perth roll-out of fibre optic cable.The new high-capacity Allwave fibre cable will be initially laid in Perth’s central business district and has the capacity to deliver data at up ...

THE majority of WA small businesses support the GST, despite the pain they believe it will cause them in the short-term.

WA’s premier strategic resources event for business and finance professionals will be held next week.CPA Australia’s 2000 Resources Convention is a unique opportunity to learn more about the issues facing the resources sector in the new millennium....

WANT to start a business in Fremantle but have no experience? Then go straight to jail.For the past three years the Coastal Business Centre, located in a wing of the old Fremantle Prison, has been incubating small businesses.Coastal Business Centr...

NOW that businesses have survived the earliest weeks of the GST implementation and the pricing issue has subsided, it is important to conduct a quick review, says CPA Australia tax consultant David Boydell.Mr Boydell said that, for most businesses, ...

THE Federal Government’s deferral of the Tax Value Method will not delay the introduction of the Simplified Tax System.Federal Small Business Peter Reith said STS would be implemented on July 1 2001 as planned.He said the changes, recommended by t...

AN APPLICATION to set up a mobile phone kiosk on the upper level Forrest Place Northern Link has been refused by the Perth City Council.The applicant wanted to set up the kiosk on the walkway opposite Fletcher Jones.The proposal would have brough...

SMALL businesses should soon be able to hire the same high-end software used by big business.A number of companies are setting themselves up as Applications Service Providers – a sort of Coates Hire for the software world.WA-based Chrome Global ha...

TAX professionals and business breathed a sigh of relief when Treasurer Peter Costello announced that he would defer Tax Option 2.

A PROPOSAL to use genetic testing when granting customers discounts on life insurance is being considered in Australia.Similar schemes operate in the US. Customers are tested to see if they have a genetic pre-disposition to life-threatening illnesse...

A GRAND plan to demolish the old Law Chambers building east of the Hay Street Mall and replace it with a public square has been given more time.

FURTHER change to WA’s workers’ compensation system is likely as public comments on two independent reviews roll in.The independent reviews into medical and associated costs and insurance arrangements are in response to issues raised in the 1999 Pe...

RETAIL sales in June rose 7.7 per cent due mainly to pre-GST spending, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

WA GRAIN handler Cooperative Bulk Handling has been given the green light to present its corporate restructure proposal to growers at a shareholder meeting on September 29.

“If an opportunity comes along, weigh it up then go for it – don’t wait for the circumstances to be exactly right.”

FREMANTLE City Council hopes to make developers’ lives a little easier with its Significant Development Applications Policy.

A PROPOSED new arcade would link St George’s Terrace with the eastern end of the Hay Street Mall.

SKILLED staff shortages are starting to bite – even in the recruitment industry.Recruitment & Consulting Services Association president and Technical Resources managing director Nick Iustini said the approach of multi-nationals was largely to blame....

ONE-sixth of the $600 million Syntroleum natural gas-to-liquids project on the Burrup Peninsular has gone to Clough Engineering.

ELECTION support for Labor from business, particularly small business is balancing on the State Opposi-tion’s industrial relations policy.Labor’s intends to abolish workplace agreements but retain individual contracts.Labor also wants to introdu...

DWINDLING income and poor forecasts threaten Perth’s premier shopping centre Forrest Chase.

HAS the privatisation of WA Government assets ceased?Victorian Premier Jeff Kennett’s shock election loss earlier this year hinted at a growing backlash against privatisation.

DESPITE finishing below the Fremantle Dockers at the end of the 2000 AFL season, the West Coast Eagles look set to keep winning the financial battle.

BASSENDEAN Town Council is confident that moves to block the controversial women’s Pyrton Prison proposed for Eden Hill will be successful.

THE Goldfields Business Enter-prise Centre has received a $60,000 grant to pay for a survey of the small business sector in Kalgoorlie, Boulder, Coolgardie and Kambalda.

PERTH’S CBD retail scene is on the cusp of a major revitalisation.