Noel Dyson

PERTH’S new freeway project is a lot more than just a tunnel carved under Northbridge.

PARKING on Bishops Row in East Perth will be regulated.

SMALL and medium businesses can now use Australia’s first online credit checking service at creditcheck.com.au

THE man who branded WA the State of Excitement and set out to lift the level of debate on council has died at the age of seventy-one.

Government support is just a phone call away for victims of Cyclone Steve.

COUNCIL has officially knocked back Transport WA’s plan to reverse traffic directions in the West End of the CBD.

IN MAY, the WA Government will release its plan for the next twenty years of development in Perth.

FREMANTLE Port’s North Quay will be open to the public for the first time in many years on 30 April as part of a Port Open Day organised by the Fremantle Port Authority.

WA’S lax approach to seeking export opportunities has been blamed for the Japanese Govern-ment’s decision to drop its external trade organisation after a thirty year association with Perth.

Perth City Council plans to boost inner city living in the CBD seem to have borne fruit.

WA BUSINESS and the public are set to be big winners in an insurance war about to break out.

The dot.com mania of the last half of 1999 resulted in a record number of Australian companies joining the feeding frenzy.

POLITICAL, rather than technical, problems proved more of an issue for the tunnel phase of the Graham Farmer Freeway project according to Baulder-stone Clough Joint Venture project manager Ray Purdy.

THE Coalition for the Defence of Human Life has been denied the use of the Esplanade Reserve to conduct a public meeting.

THE LARGEST information technology and communications incubator project in WA has been launched under the Federal Government’s $76 million Building on Information Technology Strengths program.

COUNCIL has at last finalised the lease for the Perth Concert Hall.

DEMOTING or moving an employee ‘sideways’ can be grounds for unfair dismissal.

BANKWEST’S total housing loan book has reached $7 billion, representing growth of 8.9 per cent in the twelve months to February 2000.

A PLAN to develop two multi-storey buildings on 1020 to 1026 Wellington Street, West Perth has been approved, despite a recommendation for refusal from Perth City Council staff.

THE idea of people living in houses on the same site as their business is taking off in Joondalup.

PROMOTERS of illegal fundraising schemes have received another warning that the Australian Securities and Investments Commission is gunning for them.

PANTHER Security has been awarded the contract to collect, count and bank coinage from council’s parking meters.

HOW important is customer service to an organisation that operates in a virtual monopoly?

A SLUGGISH response by Northbridge businesses has cost the area the Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

ACCORDING to a recent survey, more than one million Australians are running businesses from home.

A SCAM has been uncovered that enables fraudulent use of mobile phone SIM cards at the phone owner’s expense.

AFTER a little more than five years, Kevin McMenemy has stood down as general president of the WA Farmers Federation.

A SMALL Business Develop-ment Corporation-designed business migration program has been launched in WA.

A PLAN to build a $120 million integrated tourism resort at Broome’s Gantheaume Point has been shelved.

WA SMALL businesses could be behind the eight ball if the WA Government takes up plans to remove insurance brokers from the workers’ compensation system.

CORPORATION Builders has launched cbglobal.com, an interactive website offering entrepreneurs a one-stop-shop for their capital raising needs.

A PLAN to demolish the house at 47 Mount Street, West Perth, replacing it with a seven-storey, seven apartment building has been approved by council.