THE West Australian export community has blitzed the field at the 2000 Australian Export Awards by winning four National Awards, which were announced in Sydney last Tuesday night.
THE food is exciting, the service friendly and slick and the wine list impressive. All the excellent ingredients that went to win Jackson’s a recent Gold Plate and a spot as a finalist, in the national Gourmet Traveller restaurant awards.
WA’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate rose from 6.1 to 6.5 per cent between October and November, while the national rate increased from 6.3 to 6.6 per cent.
THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange.John Bovard has joined Danae Resource NL as non-executive director.
A MULTI-purpose defence force, capable of sustaining combat operations in two separate locations, while protecting Australia’s approaches is the goal the Federal Government is aiming for with its White Paper.
FORMER Minter Ellison partners Sean Mullins and Matthew Handcock have formed a boutique insurance firm Mullins Handcock and been joined by nine other former Minter Ellison staff.
THE International ATTM Card Scheme marketed and promoted by World Netsafe Pty Ltd and Terence Butler has been ruled an illegal pyramid and referral selling scheme by the Federal Court, Brisbane.
OIL and gas industry maritime service company Mermaid Marine’s ambitions in construction are set to become a reality with the purchase of two new vessels for offshore work.
WHILE the WA Government’s $2 billion plan to upgrade electricity supply in WA meets some pressing needs, it does not go far enough to bring true competition and the price cuts that go with that.
Did you wrestle with information in your first Business Activity Statement? Did your accounting software promise you easy answers, yet you still found it difficult?
MEAD’S of Mosman Bay has added the 76ft long Moonlight Lady to its long list of attractions with special appeal to business houses as the festive season approaches.
In WA, seasonally adjusted employment increased by just 0.3 per cent through the year to November, the lowest annual growth since 1996. Employment fell by 0.2 per cent between October and November.
Public sector workers were recognised and rewarded for their outstanding contribution to the WA community at the 2000 StateWest Achievement Awards on Friday 1 December, 2000.
BROWSING through the hundreds of job advertisements that appeared in The Australian in 2000, I was struck by the very high calibre of senior managers companies seek to attract.
THE chairman of the Subiaco Redevelopment Authority, Ron Doubikin has been appointed chairman of the Coral Coast Marina Development Pty Ltd (CCMD) Board.
THE COP6 Climate Change conference ended in The Hague last month without an agreement between world environment ministers on how to apply the 1997 Kyoto Protocol.
Employers wishing to be generous to staff and clients at Christmas may find themselves subject to Fringe Benefits Tax (FBT) as a result of their generosity, warns CPA Australia.
WA MAY be two years away from having its dedicated exhibition and convention centre but a Perth company has helped stage one of the world’s most important gatherings of business and political leaders.
