A COMPREHENSIVE contingency plan can not only assist with Year 2000 problems, but also the failure of business systems or processes at any time in the future, says Stamfords Accountants Advisers Consultants partner Jon Petelczyc.
TOP chefs from Australia and around the world will share their secrets at the 1999 WA MasterClass Weekend to be held at the Parmelia Hilton Perth on Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 July.
While some long term trends in the Australian energy market continue – such as strong growth in Queensland and Western Australia – the sector is undergoing rapid change.
A recent sharp rise in cobalt prices – benefiting Western Australian nickel producers with cobalt credits – has been attrib-uted to lower production in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Perth-based hydrocarbon explor-er Hardman Resources NL is on track to develop its gas drilling project near Rome in Italy as the next stage of its exploration programme.
THE ERG Motorola Alliance has won the contract to install and manage a smart card fare collection system in Rome's Metrebus system for nine years, with an additional five year option.
The Federal Government must establish a GST education office for small business – independent of the tax office – to ensure smooth implementation of the GST.
WHILE the design of the new Fremantle Maritime Museum has been lauded by architects, keeping its massive ocean-facing windows clean could pose a problem.
THE Department of Productivity and Labour Relations and the Security Agents Institute have joined forces to raise awareness of employment obligations within Perth's security industry.
Kanowna Lights NL, which has been exploring for base metals at its Pin-nacles nickel project 130 kilometres east of Kalgoorlie, is on the threshold of developing a gold project.
Hydrocarbon producer Woodside Petroleum Ltd has invested $8 million to support a research program developing electricity generation technology based on ceramic or solid oxide fuel cells.
On the national playing field, WA is ‘B' team; certainly in the minds of most ‘eastern-staters'. The only trouble is, most Western Australians don't quite see the world that way.
Is this the golden age for local companies to go global? The landscape of Western Australian business is altered forever. We are less isolated and more open to global threats and opportunities.
PERTH-based Reefton Mining NL, which recently picked up some hot diamond prospective property through a joint venture in Namibia, Southern Africa, has considerably expanded its diamond interests.
WA BUSINESSES should gear up to trade in the online economy or risk being marginalised by the Internet business boom, says Works and Services Minister Mike Board.
Consolidated Minerals Limited has relisted on the Australian bourse, more than twenty months after its predecessor, Valiant Consolidated Limit-ed, was suspended from trading.
