Noel Dyson

ORD River Land Corporation, a company linked to jailed finance broker Graeme Grubb, is being sued for almost $2.4 million.

GLOBAL medical services provider Medaire has widened its reach with two key deals.

ONE of Western Australia’s largest advertising agencies, The Marketing Mix, has been hit by the collapse of diet group The Metabolism Centre, with the agency’s former holding entity facing liquidation after losing close to $1 million. Carfee Pty Ltd, the

AN already lucrative European market could become even more profitable for Freedom Pools if its Spanish manufacturing operation plans come to fruition.

GHOSTS of financial troubles past have returned to haunt corporate Christmas decorations specialist Boo Creative Consultants with one creditor commencing legal action to recover n

ASCENT Capital has signed a deed of company arrangement that will breathe life into failed listed weight loss player Metabolism Health Limited.

METABOLISM Health Limited directors Jim Cowling, Joseph Ohayon and David John look set to participate in the listed company’s next incarnation,

PERTH-EXCHANGE listed company pSivida has led the way in mid cap share price growth for the first quarter, according to a survey by stockbroker Intersuisse.

MINING industry players and the law fraternity have played a major role in bringing a unique cancer treatment centre to life.

THE 2004 Foodbank Charity Golf Classic, produced by Ernst & Young has raised almost $20,000 for Foodbank WA.

LISTED investment group Asset Backed Holdings is embarking on an ambitious plan to create a China-focused phosphate-based regional mining and resource group.

SOME questions have been raised over listed investment house Asset Backed Holding’s decision to buy China-based Norwest Chemicals, a company part owned by ABH director David Argyl

FOR much of 2003 there would be the occasional question – whatever became of Doric?

LISTED Western Australian property player Aspen Group has entered into an agreement with WA caravan manufacturer Fleetwood Corporation to acquire its caravan park division.

THE Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union is having a second try at having an enterprise order made against Hanssen Pty Ltd.

COAL industry proponents are concerned that they are being squeezed out of Western Power’s latest request for a 300 megawatt base load generator.

A COMMUNITY radio service is allowing about 200,000 Western Australians to do what many people take for granted – access the information in a newspaper.

A SPECIAL WA Police Service taskforce set up to investigate allegations of criminal behaviour in the building and construction industry is in the process of investigating 15 matte

THE Federal Government will introduce legislation to overturn the Australian Industrial Relations Commission’s decision to force small businesses to pay up to eight weeks of redundancy.

WESTERN Australia’s construction industry could be in for a shake-up due to legislation currently being debated in State Parliament.

SOUTHERN suburbs icon Marapana Wildlife Park is on the market for $475,000 on a walk-in-walk-out basis.

WOODSIDE has decided to go ahead with development of its Enfield oil field, about 40 kilometres north west of Western Australia’s North West Cape.

CLOSING the country-city divide, reducing the skills shortage in the agricultural industry, keeping people on the land and promoting agriculture in general are some of the key issues for new WAFarmers president, Trevor deLandgrafft.

KALGOORLIE is out to prove that has a cultural soul despite its diesel and dust image and, hopefully, raise $40,000 for the Royal Flying Doctor Service into the bargain.

SECURITY of payment for builders and their subcontractors could become a reality if the Construction Contracts Bill is soon passed.

A SIGNIFICANT number of large mining and oil and gas developments are under way in and around Geraldton as the sector emerges from the shadow of the failed $2 billion Kingstream iron and steel project.

WESFARMERS entity Kleenheat Gas has signed an agreement with GasNet to design, procure, build, commission and operate a Liquefied Natural Gas truck loading facility in Melbourne.

LONG overlooked by local investors, the seaside town of Geraldton is attracting the attention of investors around Australia.

GERALDTON is on the cusp of benefiting from more than $500 million in investment, rebounding strongly after several years of sluggish activity.

THERE are now 32 inductees in the Royal Agricultural Society’ of Western Australia’s Agricultural Hall of Fame.

IT seems an unusual concept – find iron ore under the Indian Ocean, build a dam to hold out the sea and dig out the minerals.

Almost $8 billion worth of defence spending is coming up in the next 10 years and WA appears ideally positioned to secure a large portion of that, as Noel Dyson reports.