Noel Dyson

IN AN Australian first, small business owners should soon be able to receive business training over the Internet.In fact, their online study could possibly start them on the way to a degree.

SMALL business needs to learn how the GST will affect them – fast, says Small Business Development Corporation director enterprise development Bruce McFarlane.

MEDIATORS and conciliators are reducing the pressure on WA’s court system, according to Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

COUNCILLORS have voted to give themselves $10,000 extra allowance on top of the $6,000 they receive for attending meetings.

SMALL training and advisory company Living With Business has won the Emerging Business category in the national Micro Business Awards.

MEAT producers can rest easy after the acquisition of the Metro Meats abattoirs at Katanning and Linley Valley by the producer-owned WA Meat Marketing Cooperative.

THE way to success for secretaries is through increased information technology training, says RecruitmentSolutions WA chief executive Bunty Paramor.

A $2.3 million development planned for the vacant site at 1292 Hay Street has been approved by the Perth City Council.At its 8 June meeting, councillors voted to overturn a staff recommendation that the application be refused.

A LARGE international survey firm has extended its presence in the WA market by opening an office in Fremantle.Germanischer Lloyd is one of the largest maritime surveying firms in the world.

ON JULY 1, the sun will set on the body regulating state-based building societies and credit unions, the Australian Financial Institutions Commission.

INCREASED immigration would impact badly on Australia’s unemployment but be good for the economy, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.

THE National Australia Bank hopes to raise up to $2 billion by means of an innovative investment scheme.

WA continued to be the greatest contributor, in absolute and relative terms, to Australian exports for the March quarter 1999, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

AN AUSTRALIAN delegation is heading to Silicon Valley in the US to learn from its venture capitalists.The trade mission includes ‘home-grown’ Australian venture capital funds and Aust-ralian representatives of major regional funds.

WA SMALL businesses, especially those with more than 20 employees, are leading in the number of Australian firms showing a profit, according to latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ Australian Business Longitudinal Survey.

CENTRALISED credit decision making by the major banks is contributing to WA’s insolvency crisis, says Castle Gates managing director John McGlue.

SOLAHART Industries, Noranda Primary School, Steens Gray and Kelly, Ellenbrook Management and Rob Horn are among the winners of this year’s Energy Efficiency Awards.

THE St John of God Primary Care Centre at St John of God Health Care Subiaco has opened officially.

COMPANIES can now be registered in just minutes via the Internet thanks to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new Electronic Company Registration service.

THE way has been formally opened for the East Perth Redevelopment Authority’s boundary extension.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP is alive and well in WA, judging by the turnout at the recent Business Opportunities and Franchising Expo.

AGWEST and the Department of Commerce and Trade have joined forces to appoint a representative in Taipei who will develop WA agriculture and fisheries interests.

A RECORD producer, an Internet maximiser and a mining software producer are three of the winners in the inaugural Asia Pacific Information Technology and Telecommunication awards.

AFTER giving Barrack Street traders the short-term parking bays they needed, Perth City Council has changed its mind – again.

KUNUNURRA company JJ McDonald & Sons Engineering has won the $3 million contract to enlarge Wyndham’s 27 year old Moochalabra Dam.

MORE than 50 per cent of Aust-ralian employers believe the proposed work for the dole scheme for unemployed people up to the age of 40 will be a winner, says the Morgan & Banks Job Index survey.

A CONSORTIUM including Mul-tiplex Constructions, Rockingham Park and Satterley and Company has been selected to redevelop the former railway marshalling yards at Leighton.

SHOPPING centres in WA generate one in 20 jobs, a new economic impact study by retail consultants Jebb Holland Dim-asi has found.

A new field of accounting is rapidly gaining acceptance in Australia – so much so that a new body has been set up to maintain its standards.

A multi-million dollar sewerage program being undertaken in a joint venture between the Water Corporation of WA and consulting engineers Gutteridge Haskins & Davey Pty Ltd (GHD) has turned to vacuum systems to reduce costs and overcome civil engineering p

THERE has been an impressive take up rate of electronic commerce by Australian businesses, the latest Yellow Pages Small Business Index has found.

AUSTRALIA Post has been asked by the Australian Competition and Consumer Com-mission to delay price increases for its Ad Post services until October 2000.