Noel Dyson

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.

COUNCIL has baulked at giving Main Roads WA carte blanche to create a bus-priority lane on the Causeway.

A vision to own seven beauty salons by the age of twenty-five has driven Tabatha Wynne to business success.

A quick response earned WA the right to host the inaugural World E-Com Conference.

As sports medicine grows as a medical discipline in its own right, the lessons learnt in its practise are being used to return injured workers to work more quickly.

RATES to use Telstra’s fixed line phone network have been released by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Globalisation in the legal industry is already happening says Minter Ellison national managing partner Phil Clark.

Companies that do not have a strong brand presence will struggle in the electronic commerce world, says Marketforce chairman Howard Read.

MOST electronic commerce web sites fail the customer service test, according to results from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s International Sweep Day held last month.

The Noongar Community Patrol has had its contract to patrol the CBD extended for another year at a cost of $50,000.

TEACHING and research in university business schools may become irrelevant, warns former Harvard Business Review editor Nan Stone.

THE GROWTH of electronic commerce at the international level is being held back by conflicting server, payment and security technologies and protocols, says University of Hamburg’s Winfried Lamersdorf.

PERTH is one step closer to hosting its own V8 Supercar Grand Prix event.

Greater investment in technology could increase the profitsof small to medium enterprises by up to 20 per cent, says Telstra Business Solutions managing director of SME sales Peter Frueh.

THE US ‘hands off’ model in regards to electronic commerce will boost e-commerce if it is adopted internationally, says US Federal Trade Commissioner Mozelle Thompson.

WA businesses still face the spectre of State Government-imposed stamp duty after the GST comes in.

Three WA women have written a book on small business management that has its publishers McGraw Hill already considering another print run before Christmas.

Setting up teams to manage organisational change is a practice fraught with risks, says independent management consultant David Jorden.

SPORT has been an enormous boon for development in Australia, says Corrs Chambers Westgarth national chairman of partners Rod McGeogh.

SUCCESSFUL electronic commerce sites rely on cross-media marketing, says NetPaver founder and business development consultant Brett Riddle.

The Australian Wheat Board hopes to be both a publicly listed company and Australia’s largest grain agribusiness within the next twelve months.

Small businesses are being caught short by requests from their customers to show they are GST-ready.

THE growth of electronic commerce is causing governments to reconsider their tax plans with a long-term view to creating a coordinated global tax structure.

An ‘adult' theatre proposed for 91 James Street, Northbridge has been refused by council because it is contrary to the orderly planning of the locality and likely to have a detrimental impact on its amenity.

AN Internet training program to provide Western Australians with twenty-four hour a day access to training and employment services will be operationally rolled out in February.

THE City of Perth is in danger of losing the annual Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras to other municipalities after it again rejected a request to donate $10,000 to organisers.

THE LAST day of this century will be spent on the ‘sickbed’ and not at the grindstone, according to a recent Morgan & Banks survey.

MIDLAND TAFE information and career advisory officer Mira Osgerby has won the Wendy Middleton Award.

THE British have landed and they are looking for business opportunities.

MANY contractors are grumbling the Australian Business Number is an attempt to draw them into the Pay As You Earn tax net. However, this may not be the case.

SMALL businesses will find tendering for government contracts easier using a tender shell document developed by the WA’s Department of Contract and Management Services.