THE Great Australian Bight off the Goldfields region of WA could become the next hydrocarbon province.This follows the recent completion of an extensive seismic survey conducted aboard the vessel MV Sea Challenger by GHD-Gardline, a joint venture compri
Small business should have access to ongoing compensation to offset the cost of a vastly more complex GST, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants tax director Angela Ryan.
Whether people personally lost a job or not, the downsizing of the ’80s and ’90s has created a paradigm shift in the way people view their work life and manage their careers.
WORKPLACE agreements are not scary. They are an ideal vehicle for the determination of workplace rights and obligations between an employee and his or her employer.
WORK is expected to start before September on the $16 million Bijou Marina Village near Busselton.Already pre-sales are worth more than $5 million, representing 60 per cent of stage one of the project with ten residences sold.
HIRE Intelligence is currently creating a recruitment consultancy franchise chain.At $40,000 per franchise, the cost includes a four week training course and $6,000 initial advertising spent on behalf of the franchisee.
LJ HOOKER Fremantle principal Tony Cavallo has warned investors and home owners that appointed executors of an estate can be unprepared and ill-equipped for their responsibilities.
A recent report by Workplace Agree-ments Commissioner Bob Cooper indicated that 53 per cent of workers on agreements received an ordinary wage rate higher than the award, with 7 per cent receiving a rate equal to the award.
SUPERSTORE Harvey Norman, who has had a presence in the South West for some time, is expanding.Growth in the region has spurred it on to create a more substantial site for its Bunbury operation.
WHEN a staff member leaves, they take with them intellectual capital – one of the company’s most valuable assets. So retaining staff is one of the credit manager’s most important tasks.
GOLD miner SMC Resources Limited has reached conditional agreement with Western Pacific Gold Inc, a listed Canadian mining company, to acquire Australian Resource Manage-ment Pty Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of WPI. SMC will pay using 31.5 million fully
THE number of businesses in industrial areas has increased dramatically recently, according to the Industrial Land Use Survey 1997 for Perth, released by the Ministry for Planning.
AN INVESTMENT project focusing on premium red wine selection for major export markets has been released. The Brookhampton project is located just two hours from Perth in state-of-the-art vineyard in the newly recognised wine region of Geographe.
If you want to burn your advertising dollar as fast as a big brand TV advertiser, then buy a few thousand impressions on a busy website such as Yahoo.By my calculations, 10,000 impressions (individuals viewing your ad) costing $500, would be used up in
Brandrill Ltd has launched a Gardner-Denver 100, rated one of the largest production drilling rigs in the country.The company recently completed refurbishing the ten-year-old rig and it will go into immediate use at BHP’s iron ore mine at Yarrie in the
Housing sales are reported to have hit a five year high, with related increases in the value of properties, according to the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia.
WESTERN Australian women are leading the country in new business start-ups, according to recent research from the Small Business Develop-ment Corporation.
Over the last eighteen months Basedow (pronounced bazz-ee-doe) Wines has been awarded a total of six trophies for its white wines in both Australian and international competitions.
West Perth-based Kimberley Resources NL has moved closer to locating a major diamond resource in the Kimberley region of WA with the discovery of the 16th new pipe in the past six months.
ARE customers from hell really worth the effort?Many businesses, particularly small ones, continue to deal with customers who are difficult and unprofitable to the seller, purely because they think any sale is a good sale.
A Perth-based recruitment company has received favourable attention for its newly released online invoice/timesheet system.The systems marries human resource management, cost accounting and knowledge management in one system.
THE recently announced workers’ compensation premium rate hike will pose a substantial challenge to employers. Employers face an average 34 per cent increase. Some industries will experience increases of more than 100 per cent.
IN WA, traditional industrial awards no longer reign supreme.Employers are now entering into flexible workplace agreements with their employees in the search for higher productivity and industrial peace.
WOMEN are still lagging behind men in the economic stakes, according to a preliminary report commissioned by the Commonwealth and State Ministers for the Status of Women.
Chianti on Colin’s is a success story nonpareil. It has a host of devotees and owner Brian Greenwood is surely one of the most polished front-of-house men in the business. It is also proof positive that food isn’t everything.
