Staff Reporters

THE spring session of State Parlia-ment is now well under way with a busy program ahead.

RETAIL property sales are at unsustainably high levels which have outstripped wage growth, says Hegney Property Valuations director Gavin Hegney.

THE great expectation over the Anketell project – which had the hearts of stockbrokers all a flutter last year – is slowly taking shape under the management of its joint venture partners.

Ever wondered why some businesses thrive and grow rapidly from humble beginnings to major successes while others just roll along in a comfortable malaise unaware of impending doom?

CHOOSING a new career can be made easier by doing some homework, says Peter Weiniger in a Seek Communications article.

THE possibility of a second vanadium project being established in Western Australia is being pursued by Australian Gold Resources Limited (AGR).

Fine dining’ and ‘five star’. No two phrases exert sphincter-clenching fear quite like these do.

RELYING on investment tips printed in the media is like trying to learn a foreign language using a tourist phrase book.

ONE of Australia’s largest and most technologically advanced downstream processing projects, the Murrin Murrin nickel/cobalt project developed by Anaconda Nickel Limited, has placed its stamp on resource history.

MANY businesses are now turning to fleet management companies to take care of their vehicle needs.

Perth-based Victoria Petroleum NL plans to test its New Caledonia gas play in September by drilling a well, subject to a farmout of equity.

AIRLINE access to Broome from Singapore will open the town up to corporate meetings and high yield incentive travel groups from Asia and Europe, says Perth Convention Bureau managing director Anne-Maree Ferguson.

THE two million plus Australians currently using the Internet are some of the world’s most active online buyers.

Lafayette Mining NL has increased by 50 per cent the Ungay Malobago resource on the island of Rapu Rapu, located 35 kilometres east of the southern Luzon city of Legaspi in the Philippines.

FRANCHISING motivates high levels of customer service like nothing else, says Colonial group managing director and CEO Peter Smedley.

NEARLY 40 per cent of employers across the nation plan to increase permanent staff numbers in the next three months, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.

Prospects for the early development of the Balla Balla vanadium project by Tanganyika Gold NL have been enhanced by an injection of $10 million by Cape Bouvard Investments Pty Ltd.

SMALL to medium size business should rein in debtors and get their cash management houses in order to help prepare for the GST, the Aust-ralian Society of CPAs has warned.

LONG-awaited amendments to the Commercial Tenancy (Retail Shops) Agreements Act have come into effect.

EMPLOYMENT National has launched an upgraded web site.The new site provides tips for getting a job and examples for preparing CVs and letters to potential employers.

Junior minerals explorer Macmin NL has reduced its operating costs by as much as 50 per cent to concentrate on its Twin Hills prospect on the Texas project in Papua New Guinea.

THE annual windup for this year’s HR Week, the Australian Human Resources Institute Country Conference, will be held at Club Capricorn in Yanchep from 27 to 29 August.

Want to learn the secrets of the man dubbed the AFL coach of the 90s?

THE woman who pioneered the mastectomy boutique concept is now spreading her company’s reach.

SYBIZ Software has devised a method for proving year 2000 compliance of its accounting systems to suppliers, customers and bank managers.

HARDMAN Resources NL plans to drill the Colom-bo 1 gas exploration well, in the Italian Fiume Tevere permit, in October this year.

WHILE some organisations still perceive human resource management theories to be little more than snake oil, others view them as the key for securing the long-term success of a company.

WESTERN Australians can be justifiably proud at news that the Perth Mint will be producing victory medals for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

ONE of WA’s largest privately owned forests has been placed on the market.

Market research companies are coming up with a new vocabulary to describe groups forming among the millions of online consumers.

Stockbroker DJ Carmich-ael Pty Limited has ratedNewcrest Mining Ltd a buy for its “enormous resilience” in the current tough gold mining environment.

MANY of today’s jobs will be obsolete in twenty years’ time, according to research by the WA Department of Training.