Noel Dyson

KOOLJAMAN, a fully Aboriginal-owned West Kimberley tourism complex, has been named WA Indigenous Business of the Year for the second year running.

SIGN up for a mobile phone and you could sign away your personal details. Buy a raffle ticket and you could go in more than just the draw.

MOVES by the Senate to obstruct the full sale of Telstra and the government’s tax changes have highlighted the power and role of the Senate.

A BOYHOOD fascination with magazines has paid off for Jamie Huber.

All three remaining applicants have submitted their detailed proposals to build the Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre.

CONTRACTORS could face a torrid time under Australia’s proposed tax regime.

HERITAGE protection loomed as a major issue for the Perth City Council at its 29 November annual general meeting.

CREDIT management is set to become a major issue for companies operating on an accrual accounting basis under the new tax system.

CLAIMS that small business prices under the New Tax System will rise by 10 per cent or more are unfounded, says Australian Competition and Consumer Commission chairman Allan Fels.

INTERNET Service Providers as we know them today are an endangered species, says Access1 director Tony Brennan.

WA COMPANIES are being asked to sign an accord that puts negotiation ahead of litigation in dealing with Y2K disputes.

WA’S small business sector is looking good and owners are positive.

WHILE a competitive power market place will bring discounts, those expecting eastern states-style price drops will be disappointed.

THE GST is having a profound effect on new car sales.Yet unlike consumers, businesses are not waiting for the GST and the expected fall in prices before purchasing says Westpac economist Justin McCarthy.

ADVERTISING agencies have to evolve or risk becoming extinct, says The Brand Agency chairman and managing director Ken James.

CORPORATE farming, once touted as the future of agriculture, seems to have lost its appeal.

COMPETITION in the WA home loan market is increasing with a new player entering WA and an existing one firming its presence.

TWO WA companies have swept the 1999 Prime Minister’s Employer of the Year Awards, winning the small and large business categories.

THE Perth City Council has sent a clear message to WA Government departments – don’t mess with our turf.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s Novem-ber Gull Award winner has drawn notice to a scheme that could financially devastate those who joined it.

GOVERNMENT focus on improving the communications infrastructure and accompanying services such as e-commerce in Australia’s regions is intensifying, says Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts Richard Alston.

COUNCIL is not supporting plans to turn the Old Swan Brewery site into a complex with twenty-eight apartments, eating houses, offices and car parking.

BUSINESS advisors have been given $7 million worth of help to improve GST skills.

CLOUGH Engineering has won a $215.5 million coal mining contract in Indonesia.

WA employment showed a marked improvement in October, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.Employment and Training Minister Graham Kierath said the figures were the biggest monthly jump in employment since March 1993.

AS THE 2000 Olympic Games draws closer, WA companies still have opportunities, says Olympic Commerce Centre director Nicole Quinn.

AUSTRALIAN companies are great innovators but poor commercialisers of their ideas according to the results of an Edith Cowan University study.

OCTOBER building approvals in WA are 10 per cent higher than a year ago, according to a report compiled by Construction Research of Australia.

Managers need to learn to deal with a growing work force faction – Generation Xers, says Minter Ellison national managing partner Phil Clark.

COMPANIES using between one megawatt and five megawatts of power a year can expect big discounts next year with the deregulation on 1 January of power transmission to the sector.

NEW research shows many small businesses are facing risk and expense by relying on verbal agreements with their staff over work conditions.

POLAND is growing as a marketplace and may prove a valuable beachhead into its developing, former eastern bloc neighbours.