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MODERN building design, landscaped gardens, and a State Swim centre are not features usually associated with an industrial business area, but Canning Vale Business Park has them all.

THERE'S a touch of irony in the fact that Robert Halliday has worked as CEO of Market City since 1999, not so much for his role but rather the location.

THE success of the Canning Vale development over the past three decades has encouraged several other local councils to look at similar proposals for their area, among them Hope Valley/Wattelup.

THE acquisition by Grand Cinemas last month of Greater Union's Joondalup and Whitfords cinema complexes, and the completion of its Armadale cinema later this year, positions the independent cinema group as a forerunner in hard-top cinema ownership in WA.

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.

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.

ANALYSING the most influential opposition MPs in State Parliament presents an unusual challenge.

THE Federal politicians judged to be most influential are those who both exercise power in their respective parties in Western Australia, and hold positions of some authority in Canberra.

PAUL Armstrong, the youthful and energetic new editor of The West Australian, has been ranked as the most influential person in the Western Australian media.

IF there is one businessperson in Perth who stands out for their rapid rise to prominence over the past year it is Neil Hamilton.

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.

FUTURE Directions International Pty Ltd (FDI) is a leading independent, not-for-profit corporation established to conduct comprehensive, integrated research and analysis of important medium to long-term issues facing Australia.

THE Indian Ocean region faces increasing strategic competition and a range of transnational maritime security challenges.