ENTERTAINMENT venues that trade beyond 1am will be required to install closed circuit television cameras under a new policy which came into effect last week.
WHILE alumina and aluminium refinery workers around the world have been shown the door by the major producers as they battle to cut back production, a similar fate is unlikely to await WA refinery workers, thanks to ongoing efficiency gains.
THE South West Development Commission will officially launch the Moorditj Aboriginal Art Exhibition tomorrow as part of a plan to boost the South West Aboriginal art industry.
Freehold land, public and private property, citizens’ rights and the Crown :an historian looks at the Westminster System by Professor Leslie R. Marchant
THE terrorist attacks in the US on September 11 will mark the year 2001 in the history books for generations to come.The tragic loss of life in the US and the war on terrorism
TENSIONS in the Middle East heightened with two suicide bombings rocking Israel. The suicide bombings – in Jerusalem and the northern port city of Haifa – resulted in numerous citizen casualties.
A TALENT for taking the dry elements of business stories and enlivening them with interesting headlines has won Business News sub-editor David Turnock an important award in WA’s media industry.
CURTIN University’s Graduate School of Business and CPA Australia have jointly developed a new MBA course in response to growing demand for highly qualified finance, accounting and business professionals.
MICHELLE Coffey, Antony Harvey, Western Potatoes and the Petroleum Products Pricing Unit & Information Management Section have emerged as big winners from this year’s StateWest Achievement Awards for the WA public sector.
WINE Industry Association CEO Tamara Stevens has been nominated for Business News’ 40 Under 40 program.Ms Stevens was nominated by association president Denis Horgan for the impact she had on the organisation in the 19 months she had been with it.
THE Australian Hotels Association has backed a Department of Consumer and Environmental Protection’s compliance audit into Award wages, rejecting the criticism of the crackdown by the Restaurant and Caterers Association.
THE Perth branch of Chesterton International has confirmed a merger with Colliers Jardine to create a firm generating up to $12 million a year in revenue.
Establishments found to be operating in contravention of the Trade Practices Act are served with a notice and given time to become compliant before prosecution is commenced.
ABOUT 1700 Optus workers, including 50 in Perth, will be sent on three weeks’ annual leave this Christmas as the telecommunications giant continues to look for savings opportunities.
CONTRACTORS risk falling foul of the Australian Tax Office’s Alienation of Personal Services Income provision even if their business entity passes the results test.
THE State Government has announced it is clearing the way for Rio Tinto’s $1.5 billion HI-Smelt expansion project, confirming speculation previously reported in Business News.
IF you’re reading this, congratulations. You’ve almost made it to the end of a year that, by any standards, has been a scary one for a fair proportion of our planet’s population.
THE discovery of a major pegmatite-hosted tantalum deposit in the eastern Goldfields could make Tantalum Australia Pty Ltd one of the largest holders of tantalum resources in the world outside the Wodgina and Greenbushes deposits.
BUOYED by a big thumbs-up from the electorate, Prime Minister John Howard has further strengthened his position by appointing allies to key positions in the new cabinet and, in the process, sidelining Liberals aligned to Treasurer Peter Costello.
WITH hundreds of managed funds open to Australian investors, one of the handy tools available is the star ratings provided by research groups like ASSIRT and Morningstar.
