Staff Reporters

PERTH-based Matrix Metals Limited will seek listing on the bourse in May in a bid to raise $8 million to develop two copper projects located in the Mount Isa and Cloncurry areas of North Queensland.

THE Australian Society of CPAs is encouraged that more than half a million businesses, out of a potential two million, have already applied for the Australian Business Number.

THE AVON Rivercare Program has been implemented to arrest inappropriate management practices on the Avon River.

MARKETFORCE has again been lauded in the latest Campaign Brief creative rankings.

DINGO Blue will increase its use of guerilla and ambient marketing tactics as part of a new brand and acquisition campaign.

WELSH Development Agency chairman David Rowe-Beddoe wants WA businesses to set up shop in Wales.

Federal Member for Curtin Julie Bishop shows more foresight than some other Federal Parliamentarians by recognising the importance of capital cities, according to Property Council executive director Joe Lenzo.

The Avon Valley now has its own industrial park which is set to make a positive impact on employment and social development in the Wheatbelt region.

PERILYA Mines NL has capped off its best six month performance, notching up a record operating profit of $6.2 million at its Fortnum gold mine in WA for the first half of the 2000 financial year.

A 207 seat theatre capable of screening 16mm and 35mm films is available for private bookings at the Alexander Library Building.

Get ready for the next ‘nanny State' campaign, a move to ban muzak in public places. Everyone agrees that 99 per cent of the stuff played in lifts and lobbies is garbage, but it's hardly as offensive as one British Parliamentarian claims.

A PERTH information technology design company has devised a new computer information interface and an entirely new stream of Extensible Mark Up Language (XML).

BUILDINGS with leading telecommunications facilities will maximise returns to building owners, a communications expert told the recent Property Council forum.

SOUTH Perth-based AMX Re-sources, which recently acquired Semaphore Telecommunica-tions, has received confirmation from the Australian Communi-cations Authority that all city licences held by Semaphore are valid until the end of March 2002.

THE new millennium could mark major hydrocarbon developments for Chevron Australia Pty Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of US oil and gas giant Chevron Corporation.

THE Federal Government must do more to help businesses through the tax reform maze, warns the Australian Society of CPAs in its pre-budget submission.

Star is a genuine attempt at the bistro lifestyle in Claremont.A warm, friendly local atmosphere.Still in shake-out mode but Bruce Chapman will turn this into a great new eating destination.

A COMPANIES and Securities Advisory Committee review of the calling of shareholder meetings of public listed companies has not yet settled on a firm position.

BASING its mining economics program on the gold industry has paid off for Kalgoorlie-based Western Australian School of Mines.

In case you missed it, WA has an iron ore boom gathering pace in the Pilbara.

COCKATOO Island, touted as a stunning new tourist resort in the heart of WA's Kimberley region, will be the site of a revitalised $7.4 million resource project by Portman Mining Limited aimed at boosting its iron ore production.

THE AUSTRALIAN Human Resources Institute is no longer a not-for-profit organisation.

A WIDE range of gold explorers and producers have been chosen to present at The Gold Show in Perth on 12 April.

SUSPENSION of work on the Canadian Diavik diamond project by Rio Tinto Limited will set back mine commissioning a further year.

When someone gets around to organising a competition for the least popular person in Perth it's a certainty that many of the nominees will be bankers.

JOSEPH Gutnick plans to add another string to his resource bow with a major thrust into the vanadium market.

WOOL marketing has gone digital with the launch of the first industry alliance between an electronic wool selling system, brokers and growers.

FEBRUARY 2000 marked the first anniversary of the start of production from the BHP's $2.45 billion HBI plant at Boodarie near Port Hedland.

CHRONIC Fatigue Syndrome afflicts around 8 per cent of the Australian population in some form, according to the Chronic Fatigue Advisory Centre's Paul and Linda Storer.

WARNER Home Video and Roadshow Entertainment have created a new video sales company under the name Warner Roadshow Entertainment Pty Ltd.

A PERTH-based company has developed a series of specialised Internet portals devoted to science and industry.

INCREASED revenue and profits last year have allowed Woodside Petroleum Limited to expand its influence and exploration acreage in the hydrocarbon fields, both locally and internationally.