A BOOK has been launched to address the issues facing home-based businesses such as balancing personal and business life, isolation, networks, finances and marketing.
THE exposure of rorts in our electoral systems raises a number of serious issues, not least the continuation of events which serve to undermine our faith in politicians.
Inside the bell chamber, sound levels reach as high as 190dB. Such is the intensity of the sound that anyone unfortunate enough to be in there when the bells ring, would suffer bleeding from their ears and significant hearing loss.
Superline has introduced innovative 3 dimensional trimming technology to strengthen its plastic thermoforming capabilities. The introduction of the USA built industrial strength 5-axis CNC router is the first of its kind in Western Australia.
DESPITE difficulties in the resources sector the industry is still spinning off benefits for Perth with the opening of the $5 million Nilos Australia conveyor belt reconditioning plant and a new $6 million mineral ore pilot testing plant at Kewdale.
The post-GST effect on both residential building and retail sales appears to be tailing off, with both indicators improving from their July trough nationally and in WA on a seasonally adjusted basis.
* WA has collected five major awards at the 2000 Australian Tourism Awards run by the Tourism Council of Australia. The Valley of the Giants Tree Top Walk on the south coast won the Significant Regional Attractions Award.
Shares in the regional Airline Company continued to rally as Air NZ increased its bid from 90cents to $1.35. The market now awaits the next move from Qantas.
THE Perth City Council has made a last ditch attempt to force a developer to bring a West Perth building into line with its planning rules before taking the matter to court.
WHEN a computer system crashes in the middle of the night somewhere in America, the first phone call for help may well be made to Perth, where it is just another client ringing during office hours.
AUSTRALIAN Trade Commission (Austrade) managing director, Charles Jamieson, has appointed Craig Symon as general manager of the Export Finance Assistance Programs.
SALON Icon has had a celebrity client visiting every week.Salon owner Lisa Mulder has the hairdressing contract for Lachy Hume the lead male in the Let’s Get Skase feature film currently being filmed in Perth.
THE Trade Practices Act recognises there are some circumstances where the public benefits resulting from conduct which may be anti-competitive actually exceed the costs.
TO help the six million Australians who suffer from fatigue, Blackmores has launched Envital, a new treatment that provides sustainable support to the body’s natural energy production function.
PERTH’S independent advertising agencies have been targeted by an east coast company seeking to create Australia’s first national advertising consortium.
Australia’s seasonally adjusted trade deficit improved by 9 per cent to $2.19 billion between June and September. In September 1999 the deficit stood at $4.31 million.
LLOYD Stewart has resigned as chairman of the Lotteries Commission of Western Australia, citing short-term business commitments as the motivating factor.
