Noel Dyson

CALL centres, hailed as a boon for WA’s economy, can prove harmful to the businesses employing them.

VOUCHERS worth $200 to help small businesses deal with the GST have started being sent out.

A MINING industry computer consultancy is turning green.

WA-BASED Gippsland Limited is expanding its Internet-based enterprise WiredCity to provide a high speed, broadband Internet access service.

WATCH out for correspondence seeking payment for unsolicited directory advertising, warns acting Commission-er for Fair Trading Gary Newcombe.

SIPA Resources International has entered into an exclusive agreement to gain access to Rio Tinto Exploration’s Australian geochemical and mineralogical databases.

EMAIL, while a valuable communications tool, has brought with it a potential legal minefield.

TAX cheats should have their anonymity stripped away, says Institute of Chartered Accountants director of taxation Ian Langford-Brown.

LANDCORP has continued its selling splurge in the northern suburbs with the sale of a further five lots in Clarkson’s Ocean Keys development.

MOVES to pull contractors earning more than 80 per cent of their income from the one source into the PAYE net could create a minefield for employers.

COMPAINTS about unauthorised ATM and EFTPOS transactions has remained relatively low, with sixteen complaints recorded per one million transactions.

CUTTING out the weekly trip to the supermarket could mean big bucks for the online suppliers of consumables.

WITHOUT the ability to go into farming, Ambrose Depiazzi found accounting as his best opportunity to have a career and stay in the bush.

AFTER “wasting my life on the beach”, Damon Wilmhurst decided to put what he’d learnt to good use and become a bodyboard coach.

AUSTRALIAN electronic retailers who fail to deliver superior customer service risk losing customers for good, says store CEO David Gold.

DESPERATE and dateless rejoice. ECAT Development Capital has entered into an agreement with a US-based Internet dating service to establish a similar service in Australia.

A LOSS in the battle with BHP in WA’s North West could spell the end of the stronghold that Australia’s unions have traditionally held there.

NOVEMBER sales figures afforded retailers an early Christmas bonus with WA’s highest spending month on record, according to recent Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.

RESULTS of a recent business survey suggest 94 per cent of respondents intend to continue operating in Fremantle.

TRUCKING companies now have a tool that can save them up to 20 per cent of their transport costs.

AUSTRALIAN business people are setting themselves up forfailure before they even start, says transformationalist Teya Antonio-Wright.

A PROGRAM incorporating a website and funding to help rural communities develop their own websites has been hailed a success.

THIS year Perth City Council will be focussing on the “bigger vision of Perth” according to Lord Mayor Peter Nattrass.

INTERVIEWS are more stressful than going to the dentist, asking for a raise, getting a speeding ticket or preparing a vacation, according to a recent survey by human resource firm Morgan & Banks.

PERTH-based Power Business Systems has been appointed sole WA distributor of the i know product from Integrated Quality Management Software.

PERTH’S advertising industry will be reduced to a handful of major players in the next ten years according to 303 Advertising managing director Stephen Wells.

SMALL business will get a fairer go following the Federal Government’s decision to establish a voluntary code of conduct for the retail sector, says Small Business Development Corporation managing director George Etrelezis.

A LAW change which would mean architects did not have to be registered could harm the public interest, warns Royal Australian Institute of Architects’ WA president Harry Schubert.

WA’S economic future in the coming year will be a mixed bag, says Chamber of Commerce and Industry chief economist Nicky Cusworth.

Concerns have been raised over businesses’ tardiness intaking up Australian Business Numbers.

WA’S largest privately-owned wine company Evans & Tate has become the first Margaret River winery to list on the Australian Stock Exchange.

HELP is at hand for thousands of people wanting to explore their training and education options.