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Blue Jacs, Mandurah's new microbrewery cum tapas bar, will soon open a second outlet on the coast, this one on Perth's northern beaches.

Before the recent election WA Business News asked the Government a number of questions. Here is a summary.

Howard Park is offering a vertical tasting featuring a decade of riesling.

There are two things I think we can be sure of from this election campaign – we won't be getting a canal and we won't see any significant deregulation of shopping hours for the next decade.

This week's Professional Services Player is Clayton Utz, ranked in the WA Business News Book of Lists as WA's seventh largest law firm.

Colin Barnett's tactically motivated promise to build a $2 billion-plus Kimberley-to-Perth aqueduct wasn't the most far-reaching conservative promise of the election campaign.

Prince Charles and Andrew Roberts do not, on the surface, appear to have much in common.

Business people wanting to have their say in the upcoming City of Perth elections have less than three weeks to enrol, with registrations closing on Friday March 18.

While the business sector's apparent lack of involvement in the affairs of the City of Perth council is considered a sign of apathy or a lack of interest, an argument could be mounted that a hands-off approach is a sign that all's well.

The balance of power between state and local government often results in a relationship that's almost parental in its functioning, complete with the tension that type of relationship often invokes.

Calls for a capital city charter to give special status to the City of Perth as a valuable asset to Western Australia, and also as containing a unique constituency, have been made for some time.

In terms of revenue, at $84 million, the City of Perth is ranked only behind the City of Stirling and the City of Wannreoo.

The City of Perth's engagement with the business community is not just about registering voters, it also involves getting quality business candidates onto council.

As the representative organisation for the property sector and owners of CBD property, the Property Council is highly critical of the City of Perth's voting system for business.

The planning policies of the Shire of Augusta-Margaret River are to be tested in the State Administrative Tribunal (SAT).

Business groups want skills training, industrial relations reform and budget policy at the top of the Gallop Government's second-term policy agenda. Mark Beyer reports.

New South Wales Premier Bob Carr has acknowledged the broadening of land tax and the introduction of a vendor tax last year are hurting the Labor Party in NSW.

The City of Perth is targeting businesses in the lead-up to May's council elections as voter apathy again threatens to deny business an effective role in the city's affairs.

Confidence is growing among developers with a view to new office construction as the outlook for Perth's office market moves into positive territory for the first time in several years.

Both major political parties may now resolutely embrace presidential-style campaigning by thrusting their leaders at voters but, at rock bottom, contemporary election campaigns are encounters between party-hired advertising agencies.

Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief executive John Langoulant has forecast a steadying of Western Australia's economy and the property market as industry catches up on a backlog of work.

While it may not be the huge sporting juggernaut that it was in the early 1990s, the Perth Wildcats has reaped a strong return from the 2004-05 season.

Perth Glory Football Club hosted a razzamatazz launch early this month to tell its fans and everyone else that the club is back, and better than ever, as a participant in the Hyundai A-League, the new eight-team national competition that will kick off in

A turf war has broken out in recent weeks as Perth's new Super 14 team looks to negotiate the use of a home ground to play its first season next year and, ultimately after that, a long-term home ground.

Australian sport is littered with expansionary clubs and sports ventures that failed to capture the public imagination, let alone that of potential corporate sponsors.

It's no great stretch to suggest that the competition between states to secure major events can often be as intense as the on-field battles.

2005 Events

When Geoff Wood established an office interiors company called Design Sales in 1965 it was only the second operation of its kind in Perth.

Australian Securities and Investments Commission chairman Jeff Lucy last week called for nationally consistent real estate legislation and regulation of the property industry in an appearance before the Senate Economics Legislation Committee.

A parliamentary report into developer contributions associated with land development has contradicted the long-held view of the sector that such contri

Fresh from his admission to the Restaurant and Catering Industry Association's hall of fame, Alain Fabrègues says he wants to give new talent a helpful “nudge” in 2005.