Noel Dyson

WA BUSINESSES are becoming more pessimistic, the latest WA Chamber of Commerce and Industry–BankWest Business Survey has found.

THE Australian Procurement and Con-struction Council has finalised its framework to help small and medium-sized businesses be more competitive in the government contracting market.

BRINGING a feminine touch to the art of insolvency has helped Diana Newman forge a successful career.

THERE is inadequate support and encouragement for Australian small business owners to train themselves and their staff a study by the Society of Australian Certified Practising Accountants has found.

THE St John of God Primary Care Centre at St John of God Health Care Subiaco has opened officially.

COMPANIES can now be registered in just minutes via the Internet thanks to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s new Electronic Company Registration service.

THE way has been formally opened for the East Perth Redevelopment Authority’s boundary extension.

ENTREPRENEURSHIP is alive and well in WA, judging by the turnout at the recent Business Opportunities and Franchising Expo.

AGWEST and the Department of Commerce and Trade have joined forces to appoint a representative in Taipei who will develop WA agriculture and fisheries interests.

A RECORD producer, an Internet maximiser and a mining software producer are three of the winners in the inaugural Asia Pacific Information Technology and Telecommunication awards.

AFTER giving Barrack Street traders the short-term parking bays they needed, Perth City Council has changed its mind – again.

KUNUNURRA company JJ McDonald & Sons Engineering has won the $3 million contract to enlarge Wyndham’s 27 year old Moochalabra Dam.

MORE than 50 per cent of Aust-ralian employers believe the proposed work for the dole scheme for unemployed people up to the age of 40 will be a winner, says the Morgan & Banks Job Index survey.

A CONSORTIUM including Mul-tiplex Constructions, Rockingham Park and Satterley and Company has been selected to redevelop the former railway marshalling yards at Leighton.

SHOPPING centres in WA generate one in 20 jobs, a new economic impact study by retail consultants Jebb Holland Dim-asi has found.

A new field of accounting is rapidly gaining acceptance in Australia – so much so that a new body has been set up to maintain its standards.

A multi-million dollar sewerage program being undertaken in a joint venture between the Water Corporation of WA and consulting engineers Gutteridge Haskins & Davey Pty Ltd (GHD) has turned to vacuum systems to reduce costs and overcome civil engineering p

THERE has been an impressive take up rate of electronic commerce by Australian businesses, the latest Yellow Pages Small Business Index has found.

AUSTRALIA Post has been asked by the Australian Competition and Consumer Com-mission to delay price increases for its Ad Post services until October 2000.

AN INFORMATION technology and telecommunications trade mission will visit Israel from 4 to 9 July.Information Technology Minister Richard Alston will lead the mission.

For nearly ten years Expectation managing director Hugh McLernon has been thumbing his nose at two ancient laws to help people fund litigation actions.

A NEW link between Western Power and Telstra will make it easier for Western Australians to set up new phone and electricity accounts.

THE WA branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has launched its own website.

WA WAS touted to more than 3,000 delegates as a world class site for aquaculture development at the recent World Aquaculture ’99 international conference in Sydney.

HOLLAND-based integrated financial services giant ING Group has made its first foray into the Australian market, taking ownership of Lakeside Joondalup shopping centre.

THE WA-based Australia Clinic has signed agreements with a major hospital in Pakistan and a business partner in Mumbai, Western India.

THE housing industry will gain through the $199 million expansion of the Keystart Housing Scheme to a total allocation of $499 million to give 5,000 low to moderate income homebuyers access to their own homes.

NEW jobs are expected to be created and food commodity exports boosted from the South West by a new quality assurance program.

THE break-up of the old Perth City Council and the creation of the Towns of Cambridge, Vincent and Victoria Park has cost $52 million.

EXPORTS of Australian sawnwood and wood-based panels are tipped to rise appreciably over the next decade as log availability increases, says ABARE executive director Brian Fisher.

THE redevelopment of council’s Number 8 Car Park on Lake Street is a step closer to becoming a reality. Council voted to adopt its business plan for the redevelopment of the car park.

THE Clough group has won contracts worth $116.7 million in just one week. The group’s Indonesian subsidiary PT Petrosea TBK has won a three year extension to a major coal mining contract in the province of Kalimantan on Borneo worth $91 million.