Noel Dyson

A SMALL Business Develop-ment Corporation-designed business migration program has been launched in WA.

A PLAN to build a $120 million integrated tourism resort at Broome’s Gantheaume Point has been shelved.

WA SMALL businesses could be behind the eight ball if the WA Government takes up plans to remove insurance brokers from the workers’ compensation system.

CORPORATION Builders has launched cbglobal.com, an interactive website offering entrepreneurs a one-stop-shop for their capital raising needs.

A PLAN to demolish the house at 47 Mount Street, West Perth, replacing it with a seven-storey, seven apartment building has been approved by council.

ANOTHER ten WA firms have won WA Government support to help develop new products and technologies.

PLANS to hold a V8 Supercar Grand Prix in Perth have been refused by council.

PERTH-based Hypertrade has signed an alliance agreement with Accountants Global Network International Ltd.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission has launched Australia’s first free company alert service through the Internet.

A MAJOR overhaul of the WA Government’s contracting system is expected to benefit small and regional businesses.

WA HAS increased its market share of business migration in the first half of this financial year.

ALONG with the shortlisting of two consortiums to build the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre and a performing arts space, two sites are still in the running.

COUNCIL wants to know what city residents want to happen in their community.

THE Small Business Development Corpora-tion is pushing the field office advisory visits run by the Australian Tax Office.

PERTH City Councillors – all nine of them – are taking their fight over Arden Street to Premier Richard Court.

THE successful advancement of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre has been the biggest event for the Perth Convention Bureau to date according to PCB managing director Owen Cook.

A PERTH man has turned a labour of love into his own business.

PLAN B Financial Services, a new name in financial planning in WA, has been unveiled by Premier Richard Court at a Matilda Bay function.

PERTH will gain a 19,000 seat rugby and soccer stadium as part of the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

A FRENCH scientist believes techniques he has developed for medical imaging could be applied successfully to undersea exploration.

DURING his seven years as Freehill Hollingdale and Page managing partner, Peter Mansell has seen the firm go from strength to strength.

WITH the demise of the Heineken Golf Classic at the Vines Resort, at least two other golf events have indicated interest in filling the breach.

A PLAN to install pedestrian barriers on the eastern concourse of the City Railway Station has been slammed by council.

THIS year’s Business Opportunities and Franchise Expo will include a one-stop GST solution shop.

PLANS to cut the number of cars in the CBD are affecting development applications.

AUSTRALIA’S largest home-owned pizza chain has announced plans to increase the number of its outlets in WA.

THE City of Bayswater is spearheading the drive to establish suburban Perth’s first community bank.

A COMPANY is offering to organise conventions and meetings – for free.

GETTING a golf course development off the ground should become easier with the creation of the International Golf Course Architects, Designers and Builders Association.

A PUSH to bring quality assurance to WA farmers is bearing mixed fruit.

A LOVE of the backstage side of productions during school days has led to twenty-seven years in Perth’s audio visual industry.

PREVENTION is definitely better than cure, say the people behind the St John of God Healthcare Subiaco Health Assessment Service.