Cultural Industries

Western Australia workplaces are taking a big-picture view of employee wellbeing, implementing programs to target mental, social, financial and physical health.

Perhaps best known these days for her support of the local arts and culture scene, Janet Holmes a Court spoke to Business News over lunch at Julio’s in West Perth about her first career as a teacher, how she was thrust into corporate life following the sudden death of her husband, Robert, and her current projects.

Three grain silos in town of Ravensthorpe will soon be the canvas for a 25-metre high wildflower mural, as part of the joint street art initiative between CBH Group and not-for-profit FORM. 

Volunteer groups Community Mates and Big Help Mob are the third NFP pair in WA to amalgamate within the past month.  

This year’s Rising Stars NFP-charity winner, Access Housing, has started construction at its new project at Boyanup and Dardanup, providing new and refurbished affordable homes for seniors.  

The producers of a documentary on problem gambling hope it will provoke greater awareness and community discussion of the issue in Western Australia.

The WA Deaf Society, an organisation established almost 100 years ago, has welcomed its first deaf chief executive.

Charities fill many business niches in Western Australia, but it is hard to imagine that any before now have been developers, manufacturers, and sellers of sophisticated devices that are a part of the fast-growing internet of things.

Two Perth-based not for profits have teamed up to combine cancer support services, with SolarisCare and Cancer Support WA announcing their plans to merge. 

WA hosted 20 major charity bike rides during the past year, collectively raising about $10 million, but the numbers are set to fall.

Osborne Park-based MG Group has won a contract to develop the state government’s $7 million Railway Square public open space project in Midland.

Scitech will relocate to the Perth Cultural Centre after almost three decades at its current City West home, a move expected to complement the $428 million new museum complex scheduled to open in 2020. 

Well known Perth business and charitable community identity J Barrey Williams has passed away after a battle with illness.

Perth charity Telethon Adventurers has plans to expand nationally at the end of this year, following the success of recent fundraising and research programs. 

Educators have opened classroom doors to new learning possibilities via a program that connects industry with students in a competition to create their own technology startup.

Perth photographer Kelly Pilgrim-Byrne is on a mission to uncover Western Australia’s most dog-friendly workplaces.  

Opera singer and cellist Taryn Fiebig, who once performed for Prince Charles at Buckingham Palace, will perform at a one night fundraising concert later this month at her alma mater Churchlands Senior High School. 

Rio Tinto’s Zara Fisher has received a scholarship from Chief Executive Women to attend a prestigious management course in France.

UnitingCare West has made a creative and confronting statement with its 2016 Winter Appeal, which features an eye-catching shop window display in Forrest Chase across the Perth train station overpass.

One of Perth’s oldest railway station buildings has been revamped as a pit stop of creative exchange.

The aquatic mystery of the Kimberley has been brought to the surface in the online interactive documentary Beneath the Waves.

Rather than succumb to a black hole of circumstance, the Perth Observatory has taken a proactive approach in ensuring it remains fully operational. 

Changes at Amana Living’s helm highlight the different circumstances facing each sector of the economy.

The City to Surf has become an iconic WA event over the past 42 years but its status as the state’s largest charity run is under threat from a relatively new event that employs a very different business model.

Perth geologist Scott Halley has come up with an innovative and highly effective way to combine professional development for his peers with fundraising for prostate cancer.

Not-for-profit group Leadership Western Australia chose the recent NAIDOC week celebrations to launch a new program tailored to building the leadership skills of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

An ageing population and government cuts to funding have driven the aged care sector into unfamiliar territory.

The Royal Flying Doctor Service today received $23.7 million from the state government’s Royalties for Regions program to help fund additional and replacement aircraft as well as developments at its Broome facilites. 

An army of lawyers contributed $10,000 to the Western Australia community today through expert training and donations to not-for-profit legal centres. 

Anglicare Western Australia chief executive Ian Carter has welcomed the opening of a bright and modern counselling and support centre.

The City of Fremantle has announced not-for-profit organisation DADAA as the new tenant for Fremantle’s historic Old Boys’ School. 

Western Australian theatre group Barking Gecko has been nominated for two Helpmann Awards for its recent production of Bambert’s Book of Lost Stories.