Noel Dyson

ECONOMY: Australian annual inflation rate has risen to 3.2%, a four year high on the back of a rise in oil prices and surge in pre-GST housing activity. Inflation is now above the RBA’s target range of 2.0% to 3.0%. The RBA is not expected at this sta...

A NEW $20 million civic square has been earmarked for the Perth CBD. The plan involves demolishing the old Law Chambers building and replacing it with a public square.Architect Ken Adam has been pushing for the project for the past nine years.

IT IS already one month since the introduction of the GST and, for those businesses lodging monthly business activity statements, the deadline is drawing close.

WELCOME to the weekly Business News.WA’s business paper of the past seven years will now be published twice as often.

WA’S rapid expansion means the State could run short of power within two years.Western Power intends to go to the market with a power procurement program to feed the new growth by the end of this year.

SIR Charles Court is one of WA’s living heroes in terms of his role in its economic development.

TWO Perth municipalities are drawing closer to entering the banking business.

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.

EXPERIENCES as a house husband led John Boddy to form a business that publishes shopping specials on the Internet.His company, saleprice.com.au, was launched on Sunday.

REDEVELOPMENT of Perth’s CBD will be put on the back burner under a WA Labor government.REDEVELOPMENT of Perth’s CBD will be put on the back burner under a WA Labor government.WA Labor leader Geoff Gallop told a Property

INDIVIDUAL workplace contracts will be a thing of the past under a WA Labor Government.The Labor Party wants to repeal WA’s Workplace Agreements legislation.

COUNCIL rates will rise an average of 3.84 per cent for the 2000-01 year.

THE balance between workplace and the home is one of the issues that will define the workplace of the future, says Bell Personnel founding director Judy Anderson.

PERTH may have missed the chance to have its convention and exhibition centre paid for by the private sector.

LOWER quality tourist accommodation continues to remain less popular, with a higher percentage of vacancies than in three, four and five star accommodation.

PERTH’S Imax cinema industry is on the verge of collapse.Just two years ago two new Imax cinemas were planned for the city – one in Northbridge at the Perth City Council’s Lake Street car park, which is being redeveloped and the other in the Wool-...

THE State Opposition’s small business direction statement has been criticised by industry for lacking direction.The Labor direction statement is a precursor to its small business policy.

A PROPOSAL to develop an 11 storey, 11 apartment building at 6-8 Mounts Bay Road in Crawley has been refused by council.

PERSONALISED service is the secret to running a business in a small town such as Esperance, says Dempster Hair and Beauty and House of Fashion owner Jacqui Raseta.

YOU know you’ve had a good environment on a construction site when all the workers turn up to see the finished product, says BGC Constructions general manager Gerry Forde.

IT IS official. The GST is a sideshow for the main event – a tighter tax collection regime.

TRANSPORT companies, especially those tackling the Internet fulfilment market, will be the ones to watch as electronic commerce grows.

A DREAM to own a business by the time he was 30 has paid off for Hughmark Quality Furniture managing director Hugh Collins.

ALMOST half of businesses that have a major data back-up failure and have no disaster recovery plan never re-open, according to The Integrated Financial Group’s Greg Milner.

NEW parking design rules will be applied to developments in West Perth from July 16.

DESPITE a WA Government plan to spend nearly $1.8 billion onpublic transport, it is likely the car will still be king when it comes to getting into the CBD.

WESFARMERS Dalgety and Rural Press have joined with consultants McKinsey & Company to create a one-stop Internet portal for the agricultural industry.

LEIGHTON Contractors still have a slim chance of snaring the contract to build Perth’s Convention and Exhibition Centre.

A PROPOSED amendment to the Fair Trading Act is expected to increase small business protection against unfair practices.The amendment is one recommendation of the Small Business Safeguards Reference Group that reports to Fair Trading Minister Doug Sh...

THE Australian Wheat Board’s privatisation plans have stalled.

PERTH’S new convention centre means big opportunities for WA’s small business sector, says Small Business Develop-ment Corporation managing director George Etrelezis.