Noel Dyson

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.

PLANS to build two four-storey homes at 39 Mount Street, West Perth have been given council's blessing – even though the properties breach some council policies.

THE Small Business Development Corporation has officially opened its GST Transition Centre.

THE death warrant for the old Berkeley Flats at 190 Adelaide Terrace, East Perth has been signed by the Perth City Council.

Businesses can help themselves gain finance by properly assessing their risks.

A PERTH man is on the verge of proving money may well grow on trees.

THE old Perth Theatre Trust's ticketing arm BOCS is up for sale.

In the year 2000 Murdoch University will be completely restructuring its Masters of Business Administration course.The course will be available in four

TOTAL Australian Tax Office collections are growing at a rate greater than GDP, according to the ATO's annual report.

A new group will oversee the planning of the Perth City Council's area.

THE Small Business Development Corporation has observed a considerable rise in people attending its How to Start a Business workshop.

Council has won the WA Municipal Association Best Practice in Local Government Award.

SMALL business operators can raise red tape and regulatory issues with an independent panel set up to help identify unnecessary red tape.

A REQUEST from the Court Hotel to close James Street between Beaufort and Stirling streets has been approved by council.

RISK management techniques will converge in the next couple of years to give an organisation a one-stop picture of its overall risk profile, says Gene Menyhart & Associates director Ian Abrahams.

FALLRIGHT International has been named WA's small business of the year in the recently announced Small Business Awards.

An enterprising WA geologist has launched a mining and exploration project brokerage called Mineral Business Development which hosts a web site offering more than 200 mineral projects.

IT IS hard to find an area of business that does not draw some level of risk.

WA independent tyre retailer Tom's Tyres has joined forces with Bob Jane T-Marts.

ONE of the key measures for the success of a law firm is the level of motivation of its staff, says new Minter Ellison CEO Sean Larkan.

PEAK business, education and community bodies have been give $95 million to help small and medium business, community groups and the education sector get ready for GST.