BRENDON Grylls has had a dilemma before.Back in September last year, he was sitting pretty, holding the balance of power and able to decide who formed a government.
THE acquisition by Geraldton-based Tanks2Go of rival tank hire business Clean Fuels Australia (CFA) last September marked a milestone for the business founded by managing director, Mark Westbrook.
THE founder of the Small Business Development Corporation has expressed dismay that the Chamber of Commerce and Industry WA has named the SBDC as one of 50 agencies it wants either abolished or privatised in a step towards public sector reform.
THE Fishing Industry Women's Association of WA (FIWA) is poised to take a class action against the state for changes to the rules governing the rock lobster industry.
CONSTRUCTION, hospitality and technical industries in the Mid West will get a boost when building of the Australian Square Kilometre Array Project telescope begins in June.
PERTH faces a waste management crisis if authorities do not build infrastructure to cope with increasing populations by 2019, says Perth Waste Authority chairman Barry Carbon.
LEADERS in safety innovation in business and industry have been recognised at the Chamber of Minerals and Energy of Western Australia's Safety and Health Innovation Awards 2009.
ATTEMPTS by the state's only grain technology company Intergrain to establish itself as a viable commercial entity after 13 months of privatisation are being resisted by peak farming bodies.
BUSINESSES nation-wide are waiting on the Liberal Party to formally announce its position on the federal government's industrial relations legislation, which moved to the Senate this week.
THE Fremantle Football Club is confident of securing another three-year licensing agreement with the AFL to operate in South Africa after launching the league's most successful overseas football project.
MORE than 750 people filled the front steps of Parliament House last month to witness one of Western Australia's most successful young mining entrepreneurs recognised in the WA Business News 40under40 Awards.
REBOUNDS in the retail and mining sectors have lead a 13 per cent increase in the Deloitte Western Australian Index for the month of February, rising $73 billion to $82.
NEW research by the Urban Development Institute of Australia WA suggests the federal government's first home owner grant (FHOG) needs to remain in place for 18 months in order to effectively stimulate the market for the long term.
WESTERN Australian exporters have received encouraging news about the economies of some of the state's key trading partners, in particular India and China, with strong signs of growth for the future.
A portion of development sites in Victoria Park will be allowed to be built up to 18 storeys high after the state government approved a lift in building height limits.
The state government will create a new director position to oversee the expansion of the Ord River irrigation scheme and associated community and social infrastructure in the east Kimberley.
Aspiring gold miner Catalpa Resources has reserved Perth-based GR Engineering Services for the refurbishment and construction of a processing facility at its $92 million Edna May gold project near Westonia.
A business advisory firm has urged small businesses to quickly take advantage of a federal government tax break before the window of opportunity closes.
The state's Grain Licensing Authority is set to be dismantled as the government announces that the export market for barley, lupins and canola will be deregulated before the start of the 2009-10 harvest.
Inpex says it remains committed to developing its $12 billion gas processing plant, located in Darwin, after a Liberal Senator said the company could move to offshore locations due to the Rudd government's emissions trading scheme.
