MICHELLE Coffey, Antony Harvey, Western Potatoes and the Petroleum Products Pricing Unit & Information Management Section have emerged as big winners from this year’s StateWest Achievement Awards for the WA public sector.
WINE Industry Association CEO Tamara Stevens has been nominated for Business News’ 40 Under 40 program.Ms Stevens was nominated by association president Denis Horgan for the impact she had on the organisation in the 19 months she had been with it.
THE Australian Hotels Association has backed a Department of Consumer and Environmental Protection’s compliance audit into Award wages, rejecting the criticism of the crackdown by the Restaurant and Caterers Association.
TENSIONS in the Middle East heightened with two suicide bombings rocking Israel. The suicide bombings – in Jerusalem and the northern port city of Haifa – resulted in numerous citizen casualties.
A TALENT for taking the dry elements of business stories and enlivening them with interesting headlines has won Business News sub-editor David Turnock an important award in WA’s media industry.
CONTRACTORS risk falling foul of the Australian Tax Office’s Alienation of Personal Services Income provision even if their business entity passes the results test.
THE State Government has announced it is clearing the way for Rio Tinto’s $1.5 billion HI-Smelt expansion project, confirming speculation previously reported in Business News.
THE Perth branch of Chesterton International has confirmed a merger with Colliers Jardine to create a firm generating up to $12 million a year in revenue.
Establishments found to be operating in contravention of the Trade Practices Act are served with a notice and given time to become compliant before prosecution is commenced.
ABOUT 1700 Optus workers, including 50 in Perth, will be sent on three weeks’ annual leave this Christmas as the telecommunications giant continues to look for savings opportunities.
WITH hundreds of managed funds open to Australian investors, one of the handy tools available is the star ratings provided by research groups like ASSIRT and Morningstar.
SHAREHOLDERS in Australian Indian Resources subsidiary Rama Mines are expected to realise their investment when Rama lists a gold company on the Mumbai Stock Exchange in March next year.
IF you’re reading this, congratulations. You’ve almost made it to the end of a year that, by any standards, has been a scary one for a fair proportion of our planet’s population.
THE discovery of a major pegmatite-hosted tantalum deposit in the eastern Goldfields could make Tantalum Australia Pty Ltd one of the largest holders of tantalum resources in the world outside the Wodgina and Greenbushes deposits.
BUOYED by a big thumbs-up from the electorate, Prime Minister John Howard has further strengthened his position by appointing allies to key positions in the new cabinet and, in the process, sidelining Liberals aligned to Treasurer Peter Costello.
LOCAL research has revealed a ‘lip-service’ only approach to customer service is often bred within corporate cultures that are neither understood by management nor talked of openly and honestly by employees.
* 1847: Mr de Burgh builds a flourmill, known as the White House at the foot of Mt Eliza.* 1857: Architect and engineer Frederic Sherwood opens the original Swan Brewery in Sherwood Court.
A VOLUNTEER scheme to help visitors and shoppers in the Perth CBD is to be launched next month.The City of Perth wants volunteers to get its City-i program off the ground.
THE fortunes on all sides seemed to swing in Afghanistan this week, but one piece of good news was the freeing of Perth aid workers Diana Thomas and Peter Bunch after a three-month ordeal as prisoners of the Taliban.
AUSTRALIA’S banks and finance companies are often criticised for ‘overly aggressive’ lending practices, but the locals appear to be paragons of virtue compared with the US.
Former Metasource managing director Richard Beresford has left his appointment just six months after the launch of the Woodside renewable and sustainable energy subsidiary.
IN its November 15 edition, Business News published a story entitled “Privacy legislation may put the heat on cookies”. Business News has been advised this story contained several inaccuracies.
SMALL business placed the frequency and complexity of tax changes at the top of its priorities for the next Federal Government, according to the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
