Staff Reporters

AN AUSTRALIAN-made diagnostic software package has the potential to save business operators thousands of dollars on computer service calls.

THE determination by South African gold miner Durban Roodepoort Deep to move into the Australasian region has taken another step forward.

FAST food chain Nando’s has achieved total WA sales growth of more than 80 per cent per annum during the past four years, says national marketing manager James Tomlinson.

The Review of Business Taxation changes handed down by the Treasurer in September will have a significant impact on the property and construction industry according to KPMG taxation experts Carlo Franchina and Craig Yaxley.

AUSTRALIAN stockbroker Bell Securities Limited has again rated Perth-based Aquarius Platinum NL as a buy for resource investors.

CLOUGH Engineering has been named preferred tenderer to build the Minerva Gas Field Development flowlines and gas plant near Port Campbell in Western Victoria.

A SYSTEM developed by WA-based Solar Energy Systems and Venco Products in collaboration with Murdoch University can provide drinking water to remote communities in WA and other states.

SMALL to medium businesses can make their own web sites and need no technical know-ledge to do so, thanks to a new product.

TROY Resources NL has opened up a new area of the Sandstone greenstone belt with its recent commissioning of the Bulchina gold mine.

THE Global Mining Opportunities Seminar will be held at the Parmelia Hilton on 18 October.

THE gloom is lifting from the local economy as improving commodity prices promise a strong recovery.

A UNIVERSITY of WA team is trying to find why many organisational change programs fail.

While gold targets were down, its mineral division helped Sons of Gwalia Limited register a net profit of $27.99 million, following an overall operating profit after tax for the current fiscal of $54.53 million.

THE Facility Management Association of Australia has experienced a growth rate in membership of more than 35 per cent in 1998-1999.

PERTH-based Energy Equity Corporation Ltd has managed to resolve some financial problems experienced with the Indonesian Government-owned electricity authority, PT PLN (Persero).

THE period from 1995 to 2005 is often described as the Decade of Transition – transition from the old economy to the new economy.

The GST comes loaded with a host of hidden traps for those in the property and investment industries who refuse to face up to its imminent arrival, according to Geoff Stevens of law firm Phillips Fox.

BASE metals miner Western Metals Limited has extended its exploration operations in Tasmania.

OtherWise Restaurant at Yallingup has proved a boon, not just for the dining public but for its young owner, Heath Townsend.

WITH State legislation before the Parliament in preparation for the introduction of Australia’s new tax changes – now less than nine months away – there is also a need to ensure the Government is GST compliant by next July.

A number of research companies have released their latest statistics on Australian Internet access.

BOTSWANA – described as ‘elephant country’ when it comes to diamond production – might yet prove a lucrative hunting ground for Auridiam Consoli-dated NL.

FLEXIBILITY and control are sought-after qualities by clients of export marketing and management providers, says Kindred Inter-national director Stuart Crockett.

CRUCIAL issues impacting property are well known and frequently discussed. These include interest rates, the product and its location, building costs, inflation, capital gains tax and the goods and services tax, yields and economic and property outlooks.

PERTH-based telecommunications carrier Amcom Telecommunications will complete another stage of its multimillion dollar broadband telecommunications network rollout by December.

WA-BASED manganese miner Consolidated Minerals Limited has clinched two important deals for the sale of product from its Pilbara mine.

A NEW Federal Government-funded program will help small to medium enterprises take advantage of international trade on the Internet.

AN ON-SITE massage service is carving a niche in the WA corporate health market.

MANY Western Australians in England would have felt very homesick over the past couple of weeks with The Land of Plenty exhibition so prominent at Selfridges in London and Manchester.

The small end of town and investors were the winners from the Ralph Report into business taxation, says the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants (ASCPA).

WA’S first Internet auction site has been established by Nedkelly.com.au

Local hydrocarbon explorer Hardman Resources NL, which is on track to spud its first gas well in late October, has also strengthened its corporate status.