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THE growing number of communities forming action groups and taking their anger over coastal development to the streets may cause some to question the value of community consultation.

THE WA Parliamentary Accounts Committee will head to Broome this week as it continues its examination of developer contributions to infrastructure costs associated with land development.

CLAREMONT’S Bay View Terrace and Rokeby Road in Subiaco are Perth’s contribution to a new list of the 20 most expensive suburban shopping strips in Australia in which to operate.

RESEARCH into remuneration for property professionals indicates continuing strong growth, with 97 per cent of companies reporting an

CAPITAL works projects announced in the State Budget are expected to sustain the strong activity shown in the commercial building sector over the past year.

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ANYONE remotely interested in politics would be well aware of the Howard Government’s focus on families in last week’s budget.

WHILE the recent radio ratings survey provided a win for 6PR talkback morning host Paul Murray, ABC 720 says it remains Perth’s number one talkback station.

WESTERN Australia’s web development industry is reaping the benefits of larger IT spends off the back of growing positive sentiment in the State’s ICT sector.

Western Australia’s olive oil producers have been spending big on harvesting, processing and branding to prepare for WA’s first big olive harvest. Mark Beyer and Julie-anne Sprague report.

LOCAL e-learning specialist Westinfo Services has won an award for the second year running at the Thomson NETg annual Channel Partner Conference in Cannes, France.

THE Federal Budget contained some interesting news for those readers, and there are a lot of you, who own investment properties – and my call is to watch out.

REGULAR Gusto readers will remember this correspondent’s culinary sojourn through Europe last year.

WITH many of Western Australia’s olive oil producers expecting yields between three and eight times those of previous harvests, brand building and distribution strategies have assumed even greater importance than usual.

THIS Saturday’s Liberal Party State Council meeting promises to be the most crucial and bitter in decades.

ONE of Western Australia’s best known olive oil producers, Olio Bello at Margaret River, is on the market with an asking price of $8.75 million.

COMMUNITY consultation could prove the key to solving the war of words on contentious community development projects.

THERE’S a touch of irony in the fact that Robert Halliday has worked as CEO of Market City since 1999, not so much for his role but rather the location.

THE success of the Canning Vale development over the past three decades has encouraged several other local councils to look at similar proposals for their area, among them Hope Valley/Wattelup.

THE acquisition by Grand Cinemas last month of Greater Union’s Joondalup and Whitfords cinema complexes, and the completion of its Armadale cinema later this year, positions the independent cinema group as a forerunner in hard-top cinema ownership in WA.

One of WA’s longest serving CEOs, Terry Budge’s seven-year tenure at BankWest largely overlapped the bank’s time as a listed company and was constantly overshadowed by takeover talk. Mark Pownall talks to the outgoing group managing director.

303 Advertising has been awarded more than $2 million in government advertising in the past weeks.

IT’S budget time again, and this year it’s the rare double – two electioneering budgets for the long-suffering citizens of Western Australia to analyse.

COMPETITION is likely to intensify within the voice services sector in the latter half of this year as several players begin to drive the battle into the residential Voice over Internet Protocol market space (VoIP).

PERTH investor Barry Patterson looks set to make a clean and profitable exit from his rescue of office supplies company National 1 after French firm Lyreco announced a 14-cents-pe

A CAPITAL raising undertaken by wireless technology company Wavenet International Limited closed fully subscribed last week, with the company raising $A5,000,000 through a share placement.

BANKWEST may not have a replacement for Terry Budge this financial year, as the bank’s offshore owner restructures its local operations

 TEN Western Australian companies exhibited at this year’s CeBIT conference at a Western Australia stand organised through the Department of Industry and Resources.

A STRONG economy, a buoyant property market and booming mineral production have helped the State Government combine increased spending with prudent financial management.

Dealing with town planning and licensing issues has proved frustrating for a Subiaco restaurant – and it has been confusing for some customers. Julie-anne Sprague reports.

PROPERTY industry groups have been quick to criticise last week’s budget despite the State Government’s efforts to promote the benefits to property buyers as one of its major selling points.

THE Perth public might be behind Room Nineteen but the population of our great city alone will not be able to save the Northbridge-based reality TV restaurant.