Staff Reporters

“In the business world everybody is paid in two coins; cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.”– Harold Geneen

DHL Australian Exporter of the Year - Austal Ships Pty Ltd (WA)

MEAD'S of Mosman Bay has added the 76ft long Moonlight Lady to its long list of attractions with special appeal to business houses as the festive season approaches.

* 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.

Gateway™ understands that setting up a new PC can be quite a daunting task.

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.

Brother has introduced the sensational new Intellifax 5750 to the market.

THE PARMELIA HILTON is offering gift vouchers and festive hampers as rewards for clients, staff performance and for friends and family.

AUSTRALIAN Trade Commission (Austrade) managing director, Charles Jamieson, has appointed Craig Symon as general manager of the Export Finance Assistance Programs.

The US economy grew at a 2.4% annual growth rate during the third quarter of 2000, its slowest since mid 1996.

DOES your business waste money and staff time ordering liquor?

BROWNES Dairy and Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital are working to raise $100,000 for a new cancer support centre at Sir Charles Gardiner Hospital.

PUBLICAN Murray McHenry is believed to be close to finalising a new lease holder for the famous Nedlands Park Hotel, known colloquially as Steve's.

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.

IT has been interesting to see how the world's biggest sporting event, the Olympic Games has highlighted the deficiencies in our support of science.

Perth's Barrack Square Bell Tower is a ‘living' building. It flexes and moves to absorb the huge forces generated when the historic bells are rung.

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.

THE property you thought you owned may now belong to your neighbour – if you still use the old coordinated reference system.

PERTH'S independent advertising agencies have been targeted by an east coast company seeking to create Australia's first national advertising consortium.

THE Department of Minerals and Energy and the Department of Resources Development released their annual reports this week.

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.

WITH the festive season approaching, Christmas parties are in full swing and there are plenty of opportunities to eat, drink and be merry.

CAROLS by Sunlight, a treasure hunt and Santa highlight the run up to Christmas in Northbridge.

Shell has revised its merger proposal with WPL. The cleverly crafted offer is designed to get the revised merger proposal (RMP) in front of the WPL shareholders to force a vote (extraordinary general meeting will be held at the end of April).

WITH Perth's newest landmark, the Swan Bells, now ready for the official opening on Sunday, December 10, my thanks go to everyone involved in the project.

The ANZ Bank's count of national job vacancies advertised in newspapers fell by 8 per cent between October and November.

PRELIMINARY work on a gas pipeline between Bunbury, Manjimup and Albany with a possible future extension to Ravensthorpe and Esperance has begun.

Chris Rule representing Australian Financial Securities and John Migliore representing Deakin Financial Planning have started another venture and are offering, for possibly the last time, an opportunity to acquire central Margaret River Property.