Staff Reporters

THE Northbridge Business Association is back in action after a two year hiatus.

WESTPAC has been named the Online Bank of the Year at the Personal Investor Bank of the Year Awards.

Some of the deepest hydrocarbon exploration drilling offshore Australia soon will be undertaken by West Australian Petroleum Pty Limited (WAPET).

THE Australian Human Resources Institute’s Foundation of Human Resources course is an ideal practical introduction to best practice in people management, says AHRI regional manager Brett Waters.

WA’S resources industry needs to confront how it will handle the introduction of a GST on 1 July next year.

STUDENTS from St Mary’s Ang-lican Girls’ School are being taught the facts of business life.

AUSTRALIA is unlikely to be badly bitten by the Millennium Bug, according to information presented at the first National Infrastructure For-um on Y2K readiness.

TITAN Resources NL believes it is on the verge of a major metallurgical breakthrough to biologically recover nickel from base metal sulphide ores –a process which is attracting keen international attention from other base metal miners around the world.

APPLICATIONS are sought for the 1999 Australian Human Resources Institute Awards for Excellence in People Management.

Once it was easy to identify an accountant. They sat at sloped desks with green eyeshades and painstakingly posted ledgers in columns of debits and credits.

BUNBURY-based Leonie’s Cater-ing Service has been nominated five times in seven categories at the Restaurant and Caterers Industry Association of WA’s Awards.

An enduring human resource management software system should be easy to customise, says Oracle regional sales and marketing manager Susan Hamilton.

PERTH-based gold miner Aurora Gold Ltd has suspended some of its mining operations due to illegal mining and political uncertainty in Indonesia.

Tsunami must have exerted a spell on us. Despite service which would at times have made even Basil Fawlty wince, we were charmed and delighted by the whole experience.

A MARGARET River company’s environmentally-friendly head lice treatment is set to gain 18 per cent of the $5.3 million Australian treatment market by December.

COMPANY loyalty has taken a dive, according to a recent survey by Internet recruitment company Top Jobs on the Net.

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.

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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.

THOUGH the fabrication and heavy industry sector is in the throes of a downturn, some companies are preparing for the inevitable upswing.