Staff Reporters

SMALL business owners are being asked to make submissions to the Small Business Safeguards Reference Group.

Development of the Ravenswood Sanctuary estate, located sixteen kilometres east of Mandurah near Pinjarra, is on track with a new $10 million 24 hole golf course currently under construction.

Statistics show that executives forced to handle their own communications as part of the restructuring of new age offices are actually costing their companies up to 2.5 times the wage of the secretary.

VANDERFIELD Machinery has recently expanded their equipment operations into northern Australia as part of their commitment to meeting the needs of farming and grounds-care customers.

Would you feel confident enough to pick a corked wine? The difficulty in identifying corked wines was recently illustrated in London during a seminar organised by a wine and spirits magazine called Harpers on 16 March.

Perth-based Anzoil NL has spudded its second well in a three-well programme in the Hanoi Basin in North Vietnam.

PERHAPS it’s because a number of Perth-based exploration businesses have re-invented themselves as Internet players or maybe it’s just that time of the financial year but the question I get asked several times a week lately is: “What about these Internet

Falling vacancies in the Perth CBD have created opportunities on which enterprising serviced office suite operating companies are capitalising.

CGU Travel Insurance recently released a new corporate travel insurance policy.

A Perth filmmaker is carving a niche in the health education video production market.

FLEXIBILITY is not the only benefit of running your own business, says Aalto Colour WA owner and new L’Entrepreneuse president Sheryl Martin.

BEING based in the world’s most isolated capital is no impediment to landing major national Sydney or Melbourne-based clients.

WHILE alliances between major airlines are on the increase, the promise of ‘seamless servicing’ to buyers has not yet been met, says Australian Business Travel Association media officer Carole Murphy.

THE RUM Jungle Motor Inn in Batchelor has earned a reputation as ‘the flashest pub in the scrub’ says operator Jackie Hargreaves.

THE Workplace Liaison Service informs small businesses what they can achieve under a workplace agreement, detailing the options for employment conditions and arrangements.

TASMANIAN and western bluegum plantations planted in the South West eight or nine years ago are about to bear fruit.Thousands of hec-tares have been planted and by 2000 and 2001 significant tonnages are expected to be taken.

EXECUTIVES and managers re-employed after retrenchment gained an average salary increase of 6 per cent, a survey by outplacement and career management company DBM Australia has found.

THE current focus for Perth-based St Francis Mining NL is Bolivia, where it has acquired 60 per cent equity in the Chacarilla project.

SERIOUS interest from several players has been expressed in purchasing the El Caballo resort, loca-ted 45 minutes east of Perth.

“NEVER knock back a business opportunity,” is Liz Davenport’s advice to up-and-coming young female executives.

The Grant Burge 1997 Filsell Shiraz and 1997 Cameron Vale Cabernet Sauvignon are probably the best Filsell and Cameron Vale reds we’ve made says Grant Burge.

It has been fascinating to observe the waves of reaction to the introduction of the Internet over the past few years.The arrival of all major new technologies produces some very predictable responses.

A tourism drive by the Collie Shire will see the establishment of a new $7.7 million resort-style complex to attract visitors to the area.

EMPLOYMENT National has placed more than 75,000 people across Australia into jobs in its first year of operation.It listed more than 130,000 vacancies since April 1998 and has approximately 25,000 job seekers registered in WA.

ARC Energy NL is focussing its full attention on the Dongara gas field, where it has undertaken a detailed technical review and a series of well workovers to increase both the reserve base and well output.

Herdsman is still one of the most easily accessible and in-demand commercial/industrial areas in Perth in the opinion of real estate agents Colliers Jardine. This is despite the significant growth of some recent alternatives.

MANY women receive unequal treatment when applying for finance, says Challenge Bank head of marketing Melissa Reynolds.

Michele and Alain Mandois are the latest in a long line of champagne makers, being sixth generation owners of the family vineyard Comte de Lantage which originated in the mid 1800s.

Look in the papers and you soon realise how many small local retailers are competing with larger national brands for the consumer dollar.

Finance professionals in the resources industry should grab their diaries now and pencil in the CPA Resources Convention.

RECRUITMENT companies servicing the resource sector are “a bit flat”, says TR Technical Support general manager Des Linehan.

TAX reform is always difficult politically. In 1985, Messrs Keating, Hawke, Crean and Beazley were strong supporters of the introduction of a goods and services tax as a basis for re-forming our tax system and cutting our growing dependency on income taxe