Staff Reporters

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MORE than $5 million worth of laptops have disappeared from Federal Government offices in the past 18 months, many of them with classified information, according to a recent survey.

FORD Purves, (pictured) the Executive Director of PurVorg BC Pty Ltd, has completed his 10-year project.

CHARDONNAY ’S versatility makes it Australia’s most sought after white grape variety.This remarkable grape is comfortable assorted climatic conditions where it always gives different but excellent results.

HERITAGE listings around Perth’s CBD may be robbing Western Australians of their superannuation nest eggs.

Economy: Long term interest rates in both the US and Australia have declined sharply over the past week as the economic outlook in both Australia and US point to a slowdown in economic activity.

Thousands of Australians participated in the tenth International Buy Nothing Day on November 24 by experiencing a day without consumer spending.

THE WA Government’s back-flip on its stamp duty on a phantom GST could cost them millions of dollars in lost earnings, according to the Property Council.

THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange.Burkhard Brauch has been appointed as chief executive officer of Resource Exploration NL.

TELETHON is to launch its own version of the Variety Club’s bash, appointing the man who has run the famous event to coordinate its new Channel Seven Telethon Celebrity Trek.

HARRY Ferrante can sauté up a debate on almost any subject as quickly as I can say deep-fry a potato chip.

A gateway to all online government internet services in Australia was launched at www.gov.au this month. It provides users with quick access to each Commonwealth, State and Territory Internet entry point.

THE $30 million gift delivery market has been targeted by Perth company Cake Box, the café and restaurant supply company founded by Harold Clough’s daughter Sue Townsend.

DOES your business waste money and staff time ordering liquor?

WILL we survive another month without an interest rate rise.It seems absurd that we have to worry about such an event as the world apparently teeters on the edge of financial disaster week in and week out.

PERTH’S biggest advertising agency Marketforce has won a contract with national automotive accessories retailer Tyre-power, estimated to be worth around $1 million.

A LAVERTON company that has grown from two employees to 120 in just six years has won the WA Indigenous Business of the Year Award.

BARELY two years since moving to Perth, Neal Jackson has established a reputation as one of the city’s premier chefs and maintained his long-term form at the Gold Plate Awards.

THE shell of failed fruit and vegetable exporter Sumich Group is being resurrected as a biotechnology hopeful, joining eight WA companies loosely representing the sector on the stock market.

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

THE post-GST boom in new motor vehicle registrations is tailing off, with registrations down sharply since their July peak both in WA and nationally.

Rationalisation of the Agriculture business continued, with Wesfarmers announcing a $1.65 merger of Iama with Dalgety.

“Tabloids Losing The Readership War” (November 16 – 22) by Joe Poprzeczny failed to mention the cost to the consumer as another reason for falling circulation of The West Australian and the Sunday Times.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has obtained, by consent orders, a Federal Court declaration that A Whistle and Co (1979) Pty Ltd, trading as Electrodry Carpet Dry Cleaning, breached the Trade Practices Act 1974 by distributing brochure

I WRITE to comment on your article Towns want share of park, November 9, 2000.

THIS is our beautiful lilac season where splashes of the exotic colour burst over the suburbs high in the jacaranda trees blossoming their seasonal hue.Down below at about knee-height is the grey/lilac of the wonderful lavender bush.

RABBIT is not often found on restaurant menus these days where the grey, bush bunny is thankfully out of fashion. When bunny does appear, it is cultivated and is a far better eating than the big-eared beast from the bush.

Research into the way small business operators use their time has found time management is rarely performed well in small firms, and time management skills are often lacking.

WESTERN Australia is leading the way again in making practical use of information technology to save time and money.

In a brief biography of Sinclair Wines, Darelle Sinclair writes, “We are a micro-sized winery with big aspirations and a non-existent advertising budget. In order to introduce our product to the market place we have kept our margins tiny.

PROMINENT UK business whiz, author and broadcaster, David Hall, will run a series of business development seminars next week (November 27-30).

THE huge gap between assistance provided to Australian shipbuilders compared with that enjoyed by their European competitors would be the most pressing issue facing the new chairman of the Australian Shipbuilders Association Bob McKinnon.