Staff Reporters

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

THE owner-manager of an expanding Bussel-ton-based tourism business has won a Bank-West scholarship to participate in a management training program.

A PERTH-based personal development practitioner has devised a technique to help shift workers relax.

DESCRIBED as a “dream come true” BHP’s newly commissioned $2.45 billion hot briquetted iron processing plant has set an historic precedent.

At this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a survey conducted by Price Waterhouse Coopers revealed that 97 percent of senior executives believe knowledge management is a critical issue for them.

BUSINESSES intending to enter the South West Small Business Awards should be preparing their applications now, says Leschenault Business Enterprise Centre manager Alison Lannin.

Organisational values will be of paramount importance in the new millennium, says Modal (Measurable Organisational Development and Learning) managing director Neil McGrechan.

THE number of Australians going bankrupt jumped by more than eight per cent last financial year, according to the latest official figures.

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.

THE emergence of the global knowledge economy and the internetworked society has widespread implications for the legal profession.

You may be forgiven for thinking that there is little to say about the GST that hasn’t already been written, but although much has been said it’s only the tip of the iceberg.

THE best way to fast track your career is to have a trusted, powerful mentor says Monster.com.au interactive marketing director Marcelo Silva.

Consolidated Minerals Limited has unveiled a deal that brings all prospective manganese mining ground within the Woodie Woodie mining centre in Western Australia’s Pilbara region under the control of a single company for the first time.

Y2K UNCERTAINTY may well cause an international post-Y2K economic slowdown.

RENOWNED chef and cook book author Charmaine Soloman is the Hyatt Regency Hotel’s special lunch time guest for July.

THE WA Government and opposition should stop trying to score points in the Native Title debate and find solutions to fast track ex-ploration agreements and productive mining, says Richard O’Shan-nassy & Co solicitor and native title mediator Marcus Holmes

SOUTH Africa looms as a land of opportunity for WA exporters.Australian exports to South Africa are currently valued at $1,064 million.