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PERTH’S filmmaking fraternity is up in arms over a new Australian Securities and Investments Commission booklet that casts doubt on the effectiveness of tax-driven film investment schemes.

PERTH-based Swiftel Pty Limited has placed itself in direct competition with newly merged Amcom Telecommunications Limited.

ONE developer synonymous with the surge in inner city living from the beginning is the Fini Group.

THE value of Perth’s CBD retail properties have been affected by the boost in inner city living, says Stanton Hillier Parker leasing manager, Conray Passaris.

MORE than three quarters of the companies questioned in the latest Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey admit they are not GST-ready.

HOTHAM Valley, fresh from its $10 million spending spree in the South West, is poised to raise $4 million to $6 million in a public offering.

THE first commercial houseboat venture operating on the Swan River has been officially launched.

ONLINE share market investors’ forum HOTcopper’s initial public offering has been heavily oversubscribed.

KOOLJAMAN, a fully Aboriginal-owned West Kimberley tourism complex, has been named WA Indigenous Business of the Year for the second year running.

CORPORATE farming, once touted as the future of agriculture, seems to have lost its appeal.

The Australian Wheat Board hopes to be both a publicly listed company and Australia’s largest grain agribusiness within the next twelve months.

Businesses need to ease the process driven by technological change says National Competition Council president Graeme Samuel.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission has obtained an agreement for some advertising on the Australian Olives’ Internet site to be removed.

A UNIVERSITY of WA team is trying to find why many organisational change programs fail.

COMMERCIAL houseboats on the Swan River may soon be a reality. WA-based Hydrocats has been invited to lodge an application with the Swan River Trust to conduct a five-year trial of the concept.

WA ELECTRICAL goods manufacturers and importers may soon be able to prove their products meet the highest level of new Federal Government standards.

OMNITRONICS has won the Small Business of the Year and Business with Under 50 Employees categories at the recent Stirling Business Awards.

Winners of the Small Business Awards in Stirling and Belmont.

The Australian Wheat Board, privatised on 1 July 1999, is operating under a new structure which, according to AWB Limited WA regional manager, Greg Harvey, is more commercially focussed while continuing to be customer driven.

A MARGARET River company’s environmentally-friendly head lice treatment is set to gain 18 per cent of the $5.3 million Australian treatment market by December.

EMPLOYMENT expectations are the best they have been for four and a half years according to the latest Dun & Bradstreet Business Expectations Survey.

THE recent significant slide in gold prices has claimed another victim, with AMX Resources NL placing on hold its robust Golden Cities project.

TOO many companies falsely believe they are safe from computer hacking but it is a real and growing threat to business – and Australia is recognised as having some of the world’s most skilled hackers.

CENTRALISED credit decision making by the major banks is contributing to WA’s insolvency crisis, says Castle Gates managing director John McGlue.

FRESH from its acquisition of Finn International, PCH Group Ltd has extended its business interests into the eastern Goldfields of WA.

THE wine regions in the south-west of WA are flourishing, with increased expansion and soaring land values.

Oceanfront Rockingham Beach Road is to become the venue of a new luxury apartment strip offering high-rise ocean views of Garden and Rottnest islands.