Staff Reporters

A positive prognosis for the future of gold, despite the many problems, was highlighted at the recent Australian Gold Conference held at Burswood Convention Centre.

Australia needs its farmers, or so we are told. They feed us, earn lots of export dollars and populate the less pleasant parts of the country far from the coast.

WA-based Quick Sign plans to open new franchises in West Perth and Joondalup by the end of the year.

THE ADVERTISING fraternity must learn to adapt to the new digital environment, according to Murdoch University chair of marketing and media program Duane Varan.

ANOTHER olive oil project is off the ground, this time north of Perth near Gingin.

Talon Resources NL’s subsidiary Supersorb Minerals is set to launch a new range of high-performance products for the horticultural industry after signing an agreement to secure a supply of zeolite.

The boom in flexible staffing is currently growing at 20 per cent, according to a recent survey by recruitment company Drake.

Despite the volume of GST seminars and information available, many businesses still have unanswered questions.

THE MOST positive thing about the Northbridge Tunnel development is that it’s over, says Snap Printing Northbridge owner Ian Wood.

A PROTEST rally targeting the Premier is planned to disrupt the opening of the Northbridge Tunnel on 22 April.

THE Reserve Bank is applying a heavy-handed approach to the economy, warned CPA Australia after the recent announcement of a further 0.25 percentage point increase in interest rates.

The Property Council of Australia has asked the Office of Energy to review the start date of new wiring standards.

OIL producer Apache Energy Ltd is one of several WA organisations sponsoring a trade mission of twenty local delegates to the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas in May.

The benefits of working from home far outweigh any negatives, says Draw Card Design Group partners Ken and Dixie Cawthorne.

Saving time is the number one priority of customer relationship management, says GartnerGroup research director Neil McMurchy.

TECHNOLOGY doesn’t have to be pitted against privacy, says Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton.

Hydrocarbon junior explorer Hardman Resources NL has enjoyed a healthy spike in its share price since giving the green light to its Colombo gas drilling project near Rome.

SANFORD Securities has begun to upgrade its service bandwidth from fourteen megabits per second to 114 megabits per second.

COMPANIES doing business in Japan need to specifically tailor their products and business

THE jewel in the Business Club Australia crown, its state-of-the-art Club venue located at Darling Harbour in Sydney is on schedule for its 1 August opening.

If the crash comes, what do we do? Well, Briefcase has found the perfect getaway – go back to school. Not just any school, but the unimaginably perfect school – the Florence campus of New York University.

STRONG resurgence in the Asian steel market has been the catalyst for expansion of Robe River Iron Associates’ Pilbara iron ore mining operations with the $1 billion development of West Angelas.

BUSINESS communication systems may not be as secure as thought, says Global Vision Technologies western region manager Bob Randall.

WA communications group BinCom Satellite Systems is about to fill the gap created by declining communications services to regional Australia with new technology.

SLIPRAIL creative director Pauline Emili-ani has shunned the gloss of the commercial fashion circuit in order to retain the ethos of her custom-made label.

If the word ‘crash’ causes unexpected sweating and a queasy feeling in your stomach, read no further, because the business world as we have known it for the past few years is about to undergo a rapid change.

As the rush for stock exchange listings continues unabated, a WA public relations consultant has spotted a gap in the market.

PERTH-based Medi-tech Research Limited may be on the brink of a major advance in cancer therapy with its hyaluronic acid technology for the delivery of anti-cancer drugs.

Grimwood Davies Limited CEO Eddy Lee said the D-fone was the first true decentralised Internet phone that did not rely on a PC for its Internet interface.

OIL junior First Australian Resources NL, which has focused on searching for oil in Texas and Louisiana, has turned to the Internet with a US$3 million investment in electronic technology.

A PERTH company is offering small businesses two bites at the Internet cherry.

ANOTHER former minerals explorer has entered the dot.com game – as an online casino operator.