Staff Reporters

General Meeting will be held at Hyatt Regency Hotel, 99 Adelaide Terrace, Perth, Thursday 26 April 2007 at 3.00 pm

PATERSONS Securities executive chairman Michael Manford has declared the stockbroking firm is not up for sale, following market speculation about a potential deal with the Asia-Pacific arm of French b

Marcus McGuren has left his position as financial adviser with Plan B Financial Services to head up the newly established financial planning division of Netfin Wealth Management Pty Ltd.

Professor John Alford, professor of public sector management at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government, to speak at a John Curtin Institute public lecture on client focus in regulatory age

Oxiana Group increased its relevant interest from 112,089,280 ordinary shares (52.05%) to 118,985,989 ordinary shares (55.25%).

Redsummer Pty Ltd decreased its relevant interest from 11,608,234 ordinary shares (11.98%) to 6,308,234 ordinary shares (5.78%).

AUSTRALIA’S first female premier, Carmen Lawrence, last week announced her retirement from political life, effective at the next federal election.

Marketforce chief executive officer John Driscoll has been appointed chairman and spokesperson for the newly founded WA committee of the Advertising Federation of Australia.

Activity statement statistics. http://www.ato.gov.au/distributor.asp?doc=/content/content/25349.htm Published: March 27 2007

BUSINESS AND TRADE

MIR Investment Management Ltd ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Drillsearch Energy Ltd increased its relevant interest from 21,559,174 ordinary shares (13.49%) to 32,139,174 ordinary shares (17.504%).

Has signed a binding agreement with Best Decade Limited, a company associated with Mr Liguo Ding, the Chairman of Singapore listed steel manufacturing and trading group Delong Holdings Limited, for th

Announce a strategic alliance, arranged by Capstone Capital, is via a private placement to DB (or a member of its group) of 315,789,474 ordinary shares in Crescent at A$0.38 cents per share for A$120m

WHILE reality television has delivered fifteen minutes of fame to many a celebrity wannabe, a new art competition is set to launch the careers of aspiring Western Australian artists.

Roxane Shadbolt, previously with the Rottnest Island Authority, has been appointed to the newly created position of Swan River Trust Riverpark manager.

Landsdale Secondary School artist selection - Jon Tarry - $247,500.00

Australia & New Zealand Banking Group Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 3,181,818 ordinary shares (5.08%).

MIR Investment Management Ltd decreased its relevant interest from 14,636,420 ordinary shares (7.49%) to 11,620,567 ordinary shares (5.93%).

FORMER Alinta Ltd chairman John Poynton believes an opportunity to keep the business Western Australian-based has been lost, with the directors’ decision to accept a $15 per share bid from Babcock &am

DEMAND for inner-city apartments in Perth appears to be growing year on year, with the latest Landgate figures revealing an average annual price growth of 14.8 per cent a year for the past five years.

The West Australian Ballet was founded in 1953 and is the oldest ballet company in Australia.

Intec Hellyer Metals Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 11,700,000 ordinary shares (18.48%) to 12,704,007 ordinary shares (19.98%).

Advises that 2,309,824 fully paid ordinary shares will be released from escrow on March 29.

NICKEL producer Sally Malay has appointed mining engineer Brian Phillips to the board as a non-executive director of the company.

Northern Mining Ltd has appointed Vince Roberts as exploration manager.

Provision of random drug and alcohol testing - Western Diagnostic Pathology - $282,150.00

J B & J I Skinner ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

RAB Energy Fund Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 3,531,666 ordinary shares (8.2%).

Touchdown Holdings Pty Ltd decreased its relevant interest from 5,000,000 ordinary shares (8.46%) to 4,400,000 ordinary shares (7.45%).

Announce that it has completed a placement of 40,800,000 ordinary shares at A$0.32 per share to raise A$13,056,000, made to institutional clients of UK based Mirabaud Securities Ltd

General Meeting will be held at Level 2, Claymore House, 63 Fort Street, Auckland, New Zealand, on Friday, 27 April 2007 at 10.00 am