Staff Reporters

THE Facility Management Association of Australia has experienced a growth rate in membership of more than 35 per cent in 1998-1999.

PERTH-based Energy Equity Corporation Ltd has managed to resolve some financial problems experienced with the Indonesian Government-owned electricity authority, PT PLN (Persero).

THE period from 1995 to 2005 is often described as the Decade of Transition – transition from the old economy to the new economy.

The GST comes loaded with a host of hidden traps for those in the property and investment industries who refuse to face up to its imminent arrival, according to Geoff Stevens of law firm Phillips Fox.

BASE metals miner Western Metals Limited has extended its exploration operations in Tasmania.

OtherWise Restaurant at Yallingup has proved a boon, not just for the dining public but for its young owner, Heath Townsend.

WITH State legislation before the Parliament in preparation for the introduction of Australia’s new tax changes – now less than nine months away – there is also a need to ensure the Government is GST compliant by next July.

A number of research companies have released their latest statistics on Australian Internet access.

Doing business in the online economy requires an effective website. However, building a great website is only the first step. For a commercial website to be successful it must attract users, or in web-parlance, traffic.

If you are dealing with a mainstream ISP company, Comdek believes the answer is probably “no”. eBusiness requires far more than just a connection to the Internet.

MORE than 200 jobs and $3.5 million in investment in the northern suburb of Joondalup is expected as a result of Stellar Call Centres setting up a major facility in WA.

The De Beers-controlled Central Selling Organisation has experienced a record sight of precious diamonds at centres in Europe and the Far East.

GREEN Line Investor Services has taken up the challenge laid down by E*Trade and drop-ped its lead brokerage rate to $28 for online trades up to $10,000.

MOBILE phones that answer calls silently may be used by eavesdroppers to listen in to office discussions.

TELSTRA has commenced a series of web-based seminars to educate Australia’s rapidly growing home business market.

COOPERATION between Australia and the Republic of Korea in e-commerce and information technology is set to reach new heights with the announcement of a set of common principles.

West Oil NL has achieved a milestone in its Timor Sea exploration after farming out its 33.3 per cent interest in ZOCA 96-16 to Phillips Australasia Exploration Company.

In 1998, during the Internet’s Christmas shopping boom, one consulting company found that online consumers between the ages of fifty and fifty-four spent, on average, around $US626, while online consumers under the age of twenty-five spent an average of a

MORE males than females are experiencing a midlife change in career or lifestyle, according to research carried out by Morgan & Banks.

MANY Western Australians in England would have felt very homesick over the past couple of weeks with The Land of Plenty exhibition so prominent at Selfridges in London and Manchester.

The small end of town and investors were the winners from the Ralph Report into business taxation, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

WA’S first Internet auction site has been established by Nedkelly.com.au

Local hydrocarbon explorer Hardman Resources NL, which is on track to spud its first gas well in late October, has also strengthened its corporate status.

BUSINESS and consumer confidence in electronic commerce will be enhanced with the recent formulation of an authentication council.

Americans, with their penchant for therapy speak would call it denial. We more plain speaking Australians would call it inexplicable, unfathomable contradiction.

In recent years the capital markets in Australia have been usurped by the federal government.

Perth businesses could be seriously underprepared for the introduction of the GST, a new survey has revealed.

AN AUSTRALIAN company has developed a real time credit card transaction technology that allows any web server or website to be turned into an electronic commerce gateway.

Perth-based junior mineral explorer Gallery Gold Limited has discovered a new gold province in a style similar to the Yilgarn region of Western Australia.

Hotmix Group provides Internet Services squarely focused on the needs of business.

PERTH-based software solutions company BMIS will soon provide the University of WA with training for JADE programming technology.

Comet Resources NL plans to expand output from its Ravens-thorpe nickel project by 40 per cent, increasing capital development costs to $870 million.