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HIGHLY lauded University of Western Australia finance graduate and former WA league footballer, Joe Procter has put himself into a postion to help commercially-minded Aborigines break into the world of business.

WITH the Federal Government’s Spam Act now in effect, some Western Australian organisations are considering how they will conduct aspects of their business to make sure they are in line with the new laws.

AWAY from the mining and tourism projects more akin to WA’s regionally dispersed Aboriginal population, two local groups are successfully finding their feet in the metropolitan commercial property market.

IF THE level of interest at a recent national Indigenous tourism conference is anything to go by, Indigenous participation in the Western Australia tourism industry is set to grow.

TALKING from a mobile phone in the small mid-west fishing village of Shark Bay, Yadgalah Aboriginal Corporation chairman Ben Bellottie emits pride as he describes the change taking hold in his local community.

THREE of Western Australia’s main property organisations have joined to form a body aimed at removing what they call the erosion of private property rights.

CONSTRUCTION is on schedule for the City of Stirling to move into their new administration building over the 2004 Christmas holidays

In the first in an occasional look at commercial property precincts, WA Business News gives an overview of QV1, the home of many of our resources-focused companies.

AFTER a false start our Legal Elite is up and running and the first few nomination forms came trickling in

WA’S forthcoming State election – which would normally be held in February 2005, but may be called before Christmas – will essentially be a two-way contest involving four major voter loyalty blocs (MVLBs).

THE issue of land is at crisis point in Broome. Apart from the Broome International Airport site, land in Broome is crown land and is subject to Native Title.

FOR a town of 13,500 Broome certainly has its fair share of air services.

THREE new resorts and significant refurbishments will pour an estimated $50 million of investment into Broome’s hospitality sector over the next few years.

Long known as a winter destination, some Broome restaurateurs are aiming to make the Kimberley locale more of an all-year operation.

IT IS not easy to spot the difference between mining booms. Share prices go up, come down, and deals are done.

MAKE sure you get a ginger beer from Matso’s Broome Brewery. The owners Martin Peirson-Jones and Kim Hart bought the brewery about four years ago and have invested about $400,000 that includes building an on-site microbrewery.

SLOWLY parts of the WA Indigenous community are emerging to commercialise the synergies between the WA mining industry and Indigenous Australians.

AN emerging market of credit card users has prompted Police and Nurses Credit Society to launch a new low-interest Visa card.

BIOTECHNOLOGY firm Ozgene says its aim is to create a large bio-pharmaceutical operation in Western Australia to rival its global multinational competitors.

THE rapid growth in housing lending has been great news for Australian Finance Group, which has a hand in nearly 10 per cent of all new housing loans across the country.

KYM Illman is one of those people for whom success breeds success.

AT age 26, and with limited skills in IT, Patrick Ng, the founder of telecommunications carrier Global Dial, saw an opportunity to create his own business.

A FEW big players have dominated the agribusiness investment market in Australia but Rewards Group has defied the odds to carve a successful niche.

THE Woodside Building and the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre are two of the biggest recent commercial construction projects in Perth – and Blackadder Group supplied scaf

THE Rising Stars survey provides unique insights into the strategies and outlook of fast-growing Western Australian

TAKING on the world’s largest multimedia companies has paid off for Nedlands-based company PIVoD Technologies, which has carved a niche by developing industry-specific application

The entry of Melbourne accounting firm Pitcher Partners into the local market will be followed by more big changes among second tier accounting firms.

HAVING enjoyed a a string of success since its conception in 1993, Commtech Wireless is poised for further international growth.

SOFTWARE development company Empired Limited seized the opportunity to develop a solution for what it saw as a paradigm shift in recruitment and business technology and processes.

ACCORDING to the most recent Deloitte Western Australian Stock Exchange Index, public companies in Western Australia continue to achieve substantially faster growth than public co

I’VE noticed there’s a lot of talk about marginal tax rates suddenly.

KWINANA Technology Business Incubator has signed an agreement with one of South-East Asia’s highest profile technology centres as part of a plan to establish a regional technology network.