WITH Clive Brown announcing his intention to retire from politics at the next election, and assuming that Labor is returned to office, one question looms large – who will replace him as State Development Minister?
A PROPOSAL to consolidate the number of defence contractors from four to one or two could pose major concerns for the subcontractors that service the industry.
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.
THE move to raise court fees in the Local Court by an average 17 per cent from the beginning of February has started some mutterings within the legal community.
LAWYERS working in debt recovery are concerned about the implications of part of a package of seven bills aimed at making sweeping changes to Western Australia’s lower courts.
THE recent attempts mounted by two construction businesses to sue the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union has happened because those businesses fell through the cracks i
TWO years after buying into Australian Stock Exchange-listed plantation timber player Australian Plantation Timber, Integrated Tree Cropping has decided to take the ASX route.
WORKERS at Rio Tinto’s HiSmelt project at Kwinana have been ordered by the Australian Industrial Relations Commissions to stop the practice of walking off site when the temperatur
C3 has announced that its CellSpray and CellSpray XP spray-on skin products have been accepted for use in The Netherlands and Denmark, in one case in an application the company had not previously considered.
SMALL Business Minister Bob Kucera has branded a recent review into the operation of Western Australia’s 37 Business Enterprise Centres as "disappointing".
FREMANTLE port’s two main stevedoring firms will switch to a complete booking system from March 1 in an attempt to remove the problems that led to last November’s blockade by truck drivers.
A SURPRISE creditor of failed Metabolism Health Limited has emerged seeking $751,400, about 10 times the amount owed to identified unsecured creditors of the company, which had on
AFTER almost 26 years representing Western Australian business Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive Lyndon Rowe is leaving to become the State’s economic regulator.
AN Australian Securities and Investments Commission accounting surveillance project shows 47 Western Australian listed companies have issues regarding whether they can continue as
A GROUP of farmers is preparing for the final stage of a 17-year battle with Western Power over compensation for land the utility has taken to carry high voltage power lines.
CREDITORS of failed weight loss operation The Metabolism Centre should be receiving their copy of the administrator’s report into the company’s woes by the end of this week.
THERE are 484 Australian Stock Exchange-listed companies that count Perth as their home exchange, a considerable jump from the 320 just three years ago.
North Cottesloe Surf Club is a standout success story among the nation’s amateur sporting organisations, boasting 1,350 members and a solid financial position.
A BATTLE is brewing among Western Australia’s dairy players over plans for a single desk selling system, three years after the industry was deregulated.
