STATE Government moves to implement a Coastal Planning and Coordination Council to determine appropriate development along the coast has received a mixed reaction from local government authorities.
WOODSIDE Energy Ltd and the Department of Foreign Affairs are in discussions to win approval from the East Timorese Government for the development of large natural gas reserves in the Timor Sea.
A HANDFUL of well-known deal makers, including Farooq Khan, Reg Gillard and Tony Trevisan, cropped up with some regularity in WA Business News' review of serial name changers.
LONG-TIME State Scene readers may recall a March 2001 column highlighting research by Dr Bob Catley, then of New Zealand's Dunedin-based Otago University.
I WAS quite staggered this week to find that Alinta's general manager of corporate communications David Franklyn had quit over his former employer's $1.69 billion bid to buy the Australian and New Zealand assets of Duke Energy.
WESTERN Australia has the highest proportion of tech-savvy farmers in the nation, according to the latest statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
CAMBRIDGE Media has merged its print division with Optima Press in a move designed to propel the Leederville-based publisher into a new business phase.
He may have a familiar family name but John Mead's determined to do things his way, from an understated vibe to fur on the walls, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered.
Three quarters of listed Western Australian companies have changed their name over the years. Matthew Hooper and Mark Beyer have delved into the archives to review the changed identities of listed stocks.
APOLLO Gold Mining is an up-and-coming mining company while Clearview Capital is a ‘shell company' with no activities, so at first glance they don't seem to have much in common.
WESTERN Australian ICT organisations, in conjunction with the State Government, are planning a joint study into the needs of ICT employers with regards to graduates and employee tra
Agency of the year – The Brand Agency
FOUR significant achievements by The Brand Agency last year catapulted the business ahead of its competitors, according to The Brand Agency chairman Ken James.
HIGH-PROFILE television ads for Go for 2 & 5, Find 30, and Quit were just some of the media and marketing activities undertaken by the Department of Health during 2003.
CURTIN University's first whole-of-university advertising campaign, launched in 2003, has helped to reverse a slide in the number of potential students choosing Curtin as their firs
SEATBELT buckles on shopping centre doors and painted on the outside of buildings formed part of Gatecrasher Advertising's media strategy for the Office of Road Safety ‘Restraints'
A SIGNIFICANT number of large mining and oil and gas developments are under way in and around Geraldton as the sector emerges from the shadow of the failed $2 billion Kingstream iron and steel project.
IF it was not for the achievements made by John Driscoll (right) last year Marketforce could have faced some significant hurdles this year, according to Campaign Brief Awards judge
DATA communications and Internet provider Swiftel Limited has announced its intention to merge with privately owned voice services company, people telecom, in a scrip deal worth an estimated $50 million.
In the back blocks of Canning Vale, where Perth's urban sprawl gives way to small farm lots, a group of scientists is creating a unique research and development centre.
FAITH was a big word washing around investor circles following the $1.69 billion deal by Alinta to take over the Australian and New Zealand assets of the US-based Duke Energy Group.
