GERHARDT Otto faced quite a culture shock when he emigrated from South Africa to Perth in 2006, experiencing almost immediately the challenges of finding employment.
THE Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA remains concerned that the federal government's proposed industrial relations reforms will have a negative effect on business, despite a Senate inquiry dismissing recommendations for significant changes.
THE state government has established a Ministerial Heavy Vehicle Advisory Panel to provide truck drivers with advice on issues in the road transport industry.
BOORAGOON-BASED recruitment firm Total Staffing Solutions has given a rare public insight into the challenges facing small and medium sized businesses trying to secure finance in the current market.
A Treasury official will help the state's police department to identify savings in line with the government's 3 per cent efficiency-based savings amid claims the Police Minister is not doing his job properly.
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One of Western Australia's oldest brokers, Mortgage Force, has agreed to merge with Sydney-headquartered Smartline to create an entity with a loan portfolio worth more than $10 billion.
Premier Colin Barnett continued talking up Western Australia's economy in the face of further bad global news, but also issued a warning that the state had to be treated fairly by the rest of the nation.
Corporate events organisers Gregory Millar and John Webb have been found to have engaged in misleading or deceptive conduct over the promotion of several industry exhibitions by a Federal Court in Perth.
Brookfield Multiplex has been appointed as the managing contractor for stage one of the Fiona Stanley Hospital under an innovative contract by the state government.
The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the official interest rate at 3.25 per cent, bringing a temporary halt to a series of rate cuts by the central bank that started in September last year.
Commodity exports are forecast to fall by 17 per cent in the 2010 financial year but farm export earnings are expected to rise over the next two years, a report for the nation's commodities forecaster says.
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Skywest Airlines has booked a near $3 million half year net loss after accounting for one-off impacts including a $5.7 million cost associated with a major Rio Tinto contract.
A strong six months for the project services division has helped to lift engineering firm Lycopodium's half year net profit up 66 per cent to $8 million.
Alinta owner Babcock & Brown Power has revealed an $18 million hit from the Varanus Island gas explosion as earnings for the half year dipped 9 per cent.
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Perth-based Amcom Telecommunications has benefitted from its major shareholding in internet service provider iiNet as it today boosted its half year net profit by 38 per cent.
TFS Corporation says it is on track to achieve at least 15 per cent growth in net cash earnings for the 2009 financial year as it today booked a $5.2 million half-year net profit after tax.
A lower than anticipated performance from Alinta and other operating businesses has prompted Babcock & Brown Power to revise down its full year earnings.
The buoyancy of the oil and gas sector in the current economic climate has helped deliver record revenues and profit for the half year for Neptune Marine Services.
Wealth management company Plan B Group Holdings has paid some $7 million in cash and scrip to acquire a majority interest in Melbourne-based wealth advisory business, Strategic Financial Management.
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THE Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has named the Small Business Development Corporation, LandCorp and the state's eight port authorities as prime candidates for privatisation or review.
