DISMISSING an employee is a tough call for businesses of any size. The legislation that determines the rights of employers and employees is not there to be unfair to either side.
DESPITE the dot.com crash, the data supply industry continues to place faith in bulk data transmission as a major resource in future commerce, with three companies racing to construct trans-Australia cables between Perth and the east coast.
THE Australian Institute of Office Professionals has launched its annual award program, which recognises the outstanding talents of some of WA’s best administrators and secretaries.
THE poor performance of the share market over the past year has brought a smile to the faces of investors who kept their money in residential property.
Perth Mint’s new “Crown Jewels” locket coins could prove to be the mint’s most financially rewarding product yet.Never mind that the 5,000 gold coins sell for $1,350 each, or that there are 50,000 silver coins on the market at $95 each.
AFTER suffering from the effects of September 11 and the Ansett collapse, the Australian tourism industry is set to launch a $10 million advertising campaign on the international market.
Marie Stoner, scientific director of bio-medical company Clinical Cell Culture (C3), has grown her once hospital laboratory into an extremely profitable operation which could soon float on the stock exchange.
INVESTOR interest in the smaller end of the market has meant a bullish start to the year for some brokers.Brokerage turnover for Tolhurst Noall in the first four trading days of this month exceeded figures for the whole of December 2001.
BARRINGTON Estate, owner of Margaret River’s Hayshed Hill winery, has moved to dispel speculation about the national wine group’s financial health in the wake of last year’s failed merger attempt with the ailing Hotham Wines.
QUESTE Communications is proposing to buy up almost 20 per cent of Anzoil in a deal which includes an 8 per cent $500,000 loan to the oil and gas junior with South-East Asian interests.
THE founder and CEO of Amcom Telecommunications Ltd, Andy McLean, has assumed the position of managing director/CEO of AmcomIP1. Eddy Lee will step into Mr McLean’s shoes at Amcom.
DESPITE last year’s $4 billion operating profit, Telstra will introduce a $150 fee for mobile phone customers wishing to change to another phone company.
IT is difficult to know which of the two prospective partners would’ve been more disappointed, at the time, by the failure of merger negotiations between Hotham Wines and Barrington Estate.
THE North West Shelf liquefied natural gas venture is one step closer to securing a 25-year contract to supply an annual three million tonnes of LNG to China’s first receiving terminal in Guangdong province.
ONE Nation party faithful mourned the loss this week of founding leader Pauline Hanson, after she quit the party to focus her attention on upcoming court battles for fraud.
A REPORT on proposals to alter the building law is poised to ensure equitable access to all new buildings for those people with disabilities, older Australians and for parents with prams.
CARVING a niche in the world of Internet copy writing promised to bring in the money for the 26-year-old WA businesswoman, when Business News spoke to her early last year.
TWO adjoining buildings at the western end of St Georges Terrace are being offered to the market by Knight Frank, a move the agency believes will test the CBD property market for the first time in 2002.
A RECENT wave of interest in concepts such as the triple bottom line and civic leadership has some organisations looking for ways to justify and measure this new social business responsibility.
PERTH-BASED Anvil Mining has enjoyed a good run on the charts over summer, but this week soared appreciably within an hour of the release of a broker’s report.
