Gary Kleyn

FARMERS can look forward to a brighter future for 2000-01, according to forecasts by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics outlined in the June quarter issue of Australian Commodities.

CONSTRUCTION firm Clough Engineering Limited has sold its nine-storey Perth headquarters building to the National Australia Bank Superannua-tion Fund for $21.3 million.

FOLLOWING five years of consultation, the WA Planning Commission has released a report which maps out infrastructure planning for greater Bunbury and the South West.Central to Industry 2039: Greater Bunbury Industrial Land and Port Access Planning i..

BANKWEST’S net profit has risen by 17.1 per cent and dividends per share are up 9.1 per cent.

THE complexity of the GST and other tax changes and their far reaching effects on builders, subcontractors and homebuyers present the greatest challenge faced by the building industry.

THE residential building boom sweeping the Busselton area will be accommodated by a new land release plan recently announced by Planning Minister Graham Kierath.The plan, believed to be the first of its kind for the South West, stems from estimations...

ONE of the world’s largest shippers, the Mediterranean Shipping Company, is moving its Australian head office to Fremantle.

THE last four interest rate increases had significantly slowed the new housing market, according to Master Builders Australia.

The Australian Taxation Office web site has been operating for some years and the ATO has constantly strived to improve the site’s services.

INTEREST only loans provide better tax benefits for property investors according to Investors Club member Graham Kirby.“The only component that is tax deductible in these loans is the interest, and not the principal reductions,” Mr Kirby said.

ONE of the most publicly-scrutinised initiatives in the WA Government’s competition reform agenda – the contracting out of Transperth bus services – has been revisited by the WA Auditor General Des Pearson.

BGC Construction has won the major prize in the 2000 Master Builders’ Excellence in Construction Awards for the $14.2 million TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Subiaco.

PERTH’S new soccer stadium could pose serious problems for CBD commuters.

IN RESPONSE to confusion in the small business sector inrelation to laws governing leasing, the Small Business Development Corporation has released a guide to commercial leasing.Leasing Business Premises: A Commercial and Practical Guide aims to assi

AUSTRALIAN mineral resource export earnings increased by7 per cent during the March quarter to $11,000 million according to the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics.Exports of crude oil and other refinery feedstock were the larges

CORPORATE relocation of employees is no longer viewed as being the concern of just the employee.

BUILDERS are facing twelve month delays in dispute resolution and the WA Govern-ment is sitting on its hands over the problem according to the Master Builders Association.

THE PERTH Mint made a sterling debut at the recent 2000 WA Tourism Awards for Excellence, winning three gold awards in the categories of heritage and cultural tourism, tourism retailing, and tourism marketing and promotional campaigns.

HBF Health Fund managing director Michael Gurry, 53, has been appointed to the board of directors of online insurance broker Insurance My Way.

SMALL GST-registered retailers can expect a one-off credit for their embedded wholesale sales tax.

MORE than 300 real estate agencies in WA – about one in five – will disappear during the first year after the introduction of the GST, according to Geoff Baldwin Team managing director Geoff Baldwin.

Malcolm Richmond has turned his back on the private sector and joined the education arena with his appointment to Curtin University of Technology as professorial fellow in the Curtin Business School and the WA School of Mines.

A NEW nursery at Manjimup in the South West will be used in the war against salinity in the State.

WA HAS recorded its highest number of working days lost in one month through industrial disputes since April 1997, according to the latest data from the Australian Bureauof Statistics.

THE eastern part of the CBD area around Barrack Street – long regarded as a Cinderalla retail area – is poisedto become a major shopping hub, according to NSC Corporate Property Consultants director Andrew Campbell.

BGC Australia – WA’s largest new home building company _ has announced major expansion plans for the company in the South West

AFTER a decade of underperformance, the Perth office leasing market is poised for strong rental growth that will lead to a new round of office tower construction in the city, according to Knight Frank office leasing director Ian Edwards.

BELMONT-based All Year Gas & Airconditioning has been named Australian established business of the year in the Micro Business Awards.

REAL estate agents are redefining themselves by acting as one-stop shops for their clients, providing anything from toilet paper to computer equipment to a cleaner

RECENT press suggested that the government had done a back flip and decided not to proceed with its previously announced alienation of personal income legislation.

THE WA roller door market is set for a shake-up following the sale of 50 per cent of Perth-based TG Doors to Adelaide company Gliderol Garage Doors.

BEST Western hotel chain WA managing director Laurie O’Meara has been appointed by Tourism Minister Norman Moore to the Rottnest Island Authority for two years.