Staff Reporters

A good ‘family restaurant’ delivers more than kiddie-proof food, high chairs and chips with everything. It imposes a frame of mind where it doesn’t matter so much what wine goes with what dish or whether the sea salt is from Normande or even what you wear

A MOVE by mining giant North Limited to slash about $100 million from its balance sheets has resulted in redundancies and operational restructuring by Pilbara iron ore miner Robe River Iron Associates.

I HAVE just visited Perth on one of those things Barry Humphries’ Sir Les Patterson used to refer to as a ‘fact finding mission’.

IT WAS no surprise to read in January that an international survey has rated Perth’s quality of living among the highest in the world.

WOODSIDE Petroleum Limited has paid US$25.6 million for entry into hydrocarbon prospective, deep water exploration acreage in the Gulf of Mexico.

GOLD miner Croesus Mining NL has reported high-grade gold intersections in recent drilling at its Fort William prospect at Binduli.

Environmental performance in the WA offshore petroleum exploration and production industry will be enhanced by new regulations.

Commercial development being planned and executed by large diversified company BBC Hardware Limited will exceed forecasts this year.

According to Australian Internet research group www.consult, approximately 600,000 Australians spent $150 million online over Christmas.

PERTH-based junior Lynas Gold NL has received a research and development grant of $1.1 million from the Federal Government’s Industry Research and Development Board, through AusIndustry.

Nearly 23 per cent of all Australian households had home Internet access in August 1999 compared with 18 per cent in August 1998, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.

PLANS by Robe River Iron Associates to boost production to fifty million tonnes per annum have reached a crucial stage.

It is agreed – the Internet brings with it the ability to personalise marketing faster and more easily than ever before, but privacy is becoming an issue.

TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the small South West seaside resort of Bremer Bay – recently hard hit by the closure of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.

Premier Richard Court has responded to a request from the WA division of the Property Council for an explanation of the intention to apply stamp duty on property transactions that attract a GST, establishing the duty as a second tax dip.

PERTH-based Mineralogy Pty Ltd has entered into an agreement with Austeel Pty Ltd to provide access to 740 million tonnes of magnetite ore on attractive commercial terms.

IT IS now a matter of history that the changeover to the year 2000 happened without any great problems.

DURING September and October the Property Council of Australia surveyed its membership in relation to the preparedness of business for GST.

PERTH-based junior gold producer Alkane Exploration NL plans to become a significant player in the zirconia industry.

THE Federal Government has announced plans to develop a digital signature process to facilitate its dealings with Australian businesses.

North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd has concluded a $200 million contract with AlintaGas for the ten year supply of product from 2002.

The Federal Government has branded criticisms of its new Internet content legislation, that came into effect on 1 January, as unfounded.

WA’S gas industry is expecting a very busy year.Australian Gas Association industry development manager David Parker said the industry had a number of key activities either underway or scheduled for 2000...

Before the modern day ubiquity of the dial-a-pizza phenomenon, young men seeking saturated fats sought out Mexican restaurants. There was no cheaper or finer way to ingest the two teenage male food groups – fat and fattier.

ROBE River Associates, part of the North Limited group, is targeting an increased share of the market in China.

For those with a long-standing interest in the online economy, this last week produced a fairly significant event.

LAST year was a big year for the Property Council of Australia’s lobbying efforts on tax reform, a battle it fought on three fronts – the Ralph report, GST and stamp duty.

WA WILL step into the new millennium with an “extremely positive” outlook for the resource industry.

SHOPPING centres can benefit from the impacts of e-commerce through strategic planning and flexibility, and can prosper during the ‘e-tailing’ era according to the Property Council of Australia.

AUSTRALIA’S new community advisory body on Internet content has been established.

MONOCO Petroleum and its WA partners have reported encountering strong gas shows at 736 metres and oil shows at the interval 781-803 metres in the Cardart-1 well in New Caledonia.

WA FASHION house Pierucci has acquired a building in Adelaide’s East End worth more than $1 million which will be ready for retail in late February.