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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.

THE Tourism Council of WA has strongly criticised last week's State Budget.

SO far this year four Liberal MPs have seen their hopes of remaining in parliament dashed, either by a loss of party endorsement or having been placed too far down an upper house ticket to be returned.

WHILE it appears that the State's wine industry has secured a windfall with an increased wine equalisation tax rebate in this week's Federal Budget, Leeuwin Estate chairman and long-time critic of WET, Denis Horgan, is disappointed the Government has not

IN an unusual turnabout Western Australian-owned Anchor Foods has secured the one millionth trademark in Australia for its updated Anchor Lion brand.

PROPERTY has provided the path to wealth and influence for many noteworthy Western Australians.

THE chief executives of Western Australia's major industrial companies are automatically placed in a position of influence, both for the decisions they make about their own company and for the leadership role they can exercise on wider business issues.

THE increasingly globalised nature of Western Australia's economy is highlighted by the resource companies driving increased investment in the State.

THE 2003 Australian of the Year, Fiona Stanley, has been ranked as the most influential Western Australian in the field of science and technology.

In WA Business News' annual feature on the State's most influential people, Mark Beyer explains why people such as Neil Hamilton, Tony Howarth, John Langoulant, Geoff Gallop and Jim McGinty are the real 'movers and shakers'.

SEVEN years after a Federal Government report into small business recommended regulatory reform of Australia's planning and development processes, a planning model has been released for public comment.

IN the political world it's called being ‘on message', and few people have managed to be as singularly focused on such an objective as Denis Horgan, arguably WA's leading wine entrepreneur, who has unfailingly hammered

On a recent trip to Melbourne, Julie-anne Sprague discovered that one of WA's finest exports plays a big part in that city's great nightlife – all hail Little Creatures Pale Ale.

I WRITE in response to Mark Beyer's interesting article ‘EY leads audit market (WA Business News, April 22).

THE founder of hip St Georges Terrace coffee shop Rosso Espresso is looking to open a similar outlet in South Perth. Michael de Marte, who also owns Café Bocca with his brother, Frank, has signed the lease for a property on Mends Street, South Perth.

A TECHNOLOGY Park start-up claims to have produced a world first in its field and is preparing to take its solution to market at a fraction of the cost of current market offerings.

IT'S easy to forget that, tucked-away between both Burke Governments (1983-88) and the 36-month Lawrence Government (1990-93), an even shorter-lived Labor administration existed.

MAILING house Post Data has beaten a field of advertising agencies to win the gold award at the inaugural Australia Post WA Direct Mail Awards.

A LOCAL company marketing collapsible binoculars has secured a deal with Vodafone to supply the telco with 15,000 of its branded binoculars.

THE future of the land designated for the Fremantle Eastern Bypass is currently being used as a political football, leaving some doubt about the legal responsibility of real estate agents who may play a role in its possible sale.

THE policies implemented by the State Government are the culmination of a complex process that filters input from multiple sources. Political advisers, lobbyists, factional power brokers and public servants can all affect the final outcome.