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SINGLE RESIDENTIAL AWARD (joint) Odden Rodrigues for Avalon House.

SINGLE RESIDENTIAL AWARD (joint) 

The State Government is hoping a report due this month will help to kick start much-needed expansion of the Ord River project. Mark Beyer reports.

It appears Loose Box executive chef Alan Fabregues has as much talent for auctioneering as he does for French cooking.

Perth electronics firm Omnitronics has signed a $200,000 deal to supply the Queensland Police service with a new radio communications system.

WINE NEWS with Anne Dawson 

Gull Petroleum has fired the latest salvo in the ongoing battle for market share with Coles and Woolworths by providing a suite of new products based on consumer convenience.

Tetai cleans up at awards

Down here at WA Business News we thrive on the fact that national media generally forget Western Australia exists, leaving a convenient vacuum for us to fill – but even so I sometimes get amazed at what is missed by our peers in Sydney and Melbourne.

If ever you walk past a group of politicians and, by chance, overhear them uttering the phrase ‘collateral damage' you can be fairly confident they're not discussing military affairs.

I am writing with regard to Tim Treadgold's column ‘Shieldliner piping for ASX listing' (WA Business News, May 13).

Caratti and PMR likely to settle

The Dobson family and investment manager Rewards Group are relatively new to the Ord River irrigation area but together they are well on the way to having a big impact.

An unlimited supply of cheap water has long been touted as one of the great attractions of the Ord River project, but the reality is not so simple.

Cotton comeback?

Sugar miller keen to grow 

Perth-based Westralia Property Trust has completed a $30 million equity raising to purchase a CBD building and broaden its holdings beyond the tourism industry.

Key industry players have established a task force to find ways of attracting young people into the building and construction industry.

LEASING OPPORTUNITIES BankWest Tower 108 St Georges Terrace Perth (1)

Small lots in big demand 

Blue Cow Cheese Company's growth is set to continue with the launch of a new gourmet products division, Blue Provedore, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.

TONY van Merwyk is passionate about his work.

RICHARD Norton and Chris Smailes are just a few weeks away from celebrating the 10th anniversary of their boutique law firm Nortorn & Smailes.

APART from the Legal Elite scattered across these pages, WA Business News would like to acknowledge another winner.

A RUNNER-UP in last year's WA Business News Legal Elite survey, Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner John Naughton has gone one better in 2004, ranking as the top banking and finance lawyer in Perth.

TREVOR O'Sullivan's love of the law started at an early age.

THE past 12 months has been a busy and interesting period for Hunt & Humphry partner Michael Hunt, who has been ranked by his peers as the top mining lawyer in Western Australia for the second year in a row.

SETTING up a new law firm has clearly done nothing to dent the professional standing of Lee Christensen, who has been ranked the State's top insolvency lawyer for the second year running.

STATE Government plans to rezone coastal and riverfront land under the Greater Bunbury Region Scheme have prompted an angry response from affected landowners, a farm lobby group and the property sector.

HOME buyers and investors camped out overnight to secure their piece of The Village at Wellard development on May 28, with all 47 first-release blocks selling by the end of the ne

THROUGHOUT his career Wayne Martin has had the knack of being in the right place at the right time, and this year he positioned himself perfectly to win the barristers' section in the WA Business News Legal Elite.

THE City of Nedlands has beaten some of Australia's biggest businesses to win a major Australian Business Excellence award, in the process becoming the first Western Australian co