Staff Reporters

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DAVID Martin has been appointed as non-executive chairman of Halcyon Group Ltd.

Aurox Resources Ltd has appointed Neil Tregea as project director, responsible for overseeing the constructing and commissioning of the company’s Balla Balla iron concentrate operation.

Europe in style - Subiaco-based Automotive Events Management is behind a tour with an automotive flavour that takes in the sights of Europe in the luxury of fine automobiles.

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ALCOA vice president, Alan Cransberg, has been appointed president of Global Primary Products Australia, effective February 1, 2008.

Contact Uranium Ltd has appointed Geoff Blackburn as chief technical officer.

The Supply Chain & Logistics Association of Australia is holding a supply chain & logistics leadership forum titled ‘Introducing change’, October 25 at the Technology Park Function Centre in B

PERTH’S housing market is staging a modest recovery with the median house price reaching $460,000 in the September quarter and tipped to keep rising until the new year, according to the Real Estate In

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Jeff DowlingManaging partner Western Region Ernst & Young 

PROFITS of Western Australian medium-sized businesses have grown at three times the rate of businesses in New South Wales and twice the rate in Victoria over the past year, according to the latest Pri

The John Curtin Institute of Public Policy is hosting a public conversation between Justice Michael Kirby and Professor Greg Craven, October 22 at The Constitutional Centre in West Perth.

HOW much Australians are eating is not usually an area that interests business, except perhaps supermarket retailers and takeaway food companies.

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SHARES in Midwest Corporation Ltd surged last week on the back of Murchison Metals Ltd’s $939 million hostile takeover bid for the iron ore miner.

REMEMBER when you were in school and you got your report card? And you were so nervous that you didn’t open it, because you thought there were bad grades, and you just couldn’t look?

FOR those readers who like to keep fit on the Swan River foreshore and have ever had a stoush with a fellow cyclist or runner, rest assured – the risk of a near collision is about to be reduced.

Kim Snowball has been appointed CEO of the WA Country Health Service at the Department of Health.

PRELIMINARY work has begun on the Australian Fine China site in Subiaco, ahead of its redevelopment into offices and housing next year.

Amadeus Energy Ltd - Peter Lehle has been appointed as a director. Aurium Resources Ltd - Anthony Karam has resigned as company secretary, to be replaced by director John Geary.

SHELL Australia chairman, Russell Caplan, has resigned as a Shell-nominated director on the board of Woodside Petroleum Ltd.

John Gummer has been appointed CEO of the Asthma Foundation of WA.

NICKEL explorer Western Areas Ltd has discovered what it believes is a nickel deposit that could be as big as its Flying Fox deposit, which is about 400 kilometres east of Perth at its Forrestania pro

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The Western Australian Trade Enquiry Service is operated by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia (CCI) with the support of the WA Government’s Department of I

Melissa Suric has joined has joined Engelhard Consulting as senior marketing consultant.

The Property Council of Australia (WA) is holding its annual sustainable development summit on October 23 at the Hyatt Regency.

Howard promises $34b tax cut; PBL defers planned denerger; AGL Energy slashes 2008 earnings outlook; Cape to sweeten $230m bid; Zinifex and Umicore to sell 70pct in Nyrstar.

Howard promises "right leadership", Rudd "new leadership"; CBH makes big step in shipping sector; Investors preparing for six weeks of uncertainty; Pratt under public scrutiny on price-fixing; Nine and Fox bid record $117m for 2010 and 2012 Olympics right

Balcatta-based technology investment company ST Synergy Ltd will buy the remaining 49 per cent of its major asset, Panorama Labs Pty Ltd, from the administrators of the company.

Midwestplays down relationship with Sinosteel; re-elected Howard would call referendum to recognise indigenous; $133.5b worth of Boeing delayed; best job figures could bring interest rate increase; WA mining leader says the state is asleep at the wheel