Staff Reporters

Has reached an agreement with Barrick Gold of Australia for Barrick to participate in Reliance’s Fosterville South project in Victoria.

Has agreed to make a placement of 8 million shares at $0.25 per share to raise $2.0 million (before costs).

ALAN Parker  and John Floreca have joined the Omnitronics board as directors.

Tiger International Limited has appointed Ashley Zimpel as executive chairman following the resignation of Dr Tor Theunissen.

AUSTRALIS Aquaculture is planning to give the US its first taste of its barramundi on October 2 at one of the James Beard Foundation’s dinners

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

The Goldman Sachs Group ceased to be a substantial shareholder.

Essential Earth Pty Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Takeover offer closed.

Has sold another of its explosive detection devices to Sydney based Advanced Security Systems.

Bruce Tomich has been appointed non-executive director of Burdekin Pacific Limited.

THE Big Issue has secured nearly a quarter of a million dollars in Lotterywest Funding to consolidate and grow its Western Australian operations over the next two years.

THE Master Builders Association believes the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union’s enterprise bargaining agreements have been made invalid following a recent High Court

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Sentient Executive Gp1 Ltd became a substantial shareholder with a relevant interest of 6,625,000 ordinary shares (18.4%).

Sofcom Ltd increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Has teamed with Raytheon Australia to bid for the forthcoming Australian Government tender to build two amphibious ships, which is due to be issued in early 2005.

A general meeting is to be held at 11am on September 28 at 45 Empire Road, Parktown, Johannesburg.

TECHNOLOGY company HarvestRoad has appointed Damien Hass as UK-European manager.

Robert Harry Duffin has resigned as director of Midwest Corporation Limited; Brett Manning has also resigned as company secretary.

QPSX has announced it expects to lodge an appeal against the decision of the Munich Patent Court concerning the validity of the company’s German Segmentation and Reassembly patent

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Ambreen Chaudhri increased its relevant interest from 7,866,137 ordinary shares (20.2%) to 8,455,970 ordinary shares (21.714%).

Commonwealth Bank of Australia decreased its relevant interest from 26,439,892 ordinary shares (14.50%) to 24,526,324 ordinary shares (13.38%).

Lodged response to ASX query.

Explains the changes announced in the Federal Budget in May 2004 to the way you can claim an income tax write-off of grapevines.

Brett Matich has resigned as managing director of Aztec Resources Limited.

CHANGE Corporation has added Andrew Crampton and Chris Stevens as a principal consultant and head of its Microsoft Navision practice respectively.

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LISTED engineering company Clough and international project management company AMEC have been awarded an operations and maintenance services contract for ConocoPhillips’ Bayu-Unda