Government initiatives to assist small business with GST compliance are a welcome relief, but more support is needed, warns the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants.
FUNDING of community services, facilities and projects, roads, dual use paths and drainage have received high priority in the City of Bunbury’s $28 million budget for 1999/2000.
ONE of Australia’s largest and most technologically advanced downstream processing projects, the Murrin Murrin nickel/cobalt project developed by Anaconda Nickel Limited, has placed its stamp on resource history.
AIRLINE access to Broome from Singapore will open the town up to corporate meetings and high yield incentive travel groups from Asia and Europe, says Perth Convention Bureau managing director Anne-Maree Ferguson.
Lafayette Mining NL has increased by 50 per cent the Ungay Malobago resource on the island of Rapu Rapu, located 35 kilometres east of the southern Luzon city of Legaspi in the Philippines.
NEARLY 40 per cent of employers across the nation plan to increase permanent staff numbers in the next three months, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.
Prospects for the early development of the Balla Balla vanadium project by Tanganyika Gold NL have been enhanced by an injection of $10 million by Cape Bouvard Investments Pty Ltd.
SOME might call it a match made in heaven, but on the ground Sipa Resources International NL and EL GAIA Holdings Pty Limited have combined hard cash and considerable expertise.
Durban Roodepoort Deep (DRD), which boosted gold production to 170,623 ounces in the June quarter, is pressing ahead with a capital upgrade to expand in South Africa and Australia.
THE Peel Region of Western Australia, which comprises the five local authorities of Boddington, Mandurah, Murray, Serpentine-Jarrahdale and Waroona, has achieved an Australian first with the implementation of the Peel E-Commerce Incubator Project.
THE Australian Stock Exchange has initiated a pilot joint venture with a number of major financial institutions to encourage investment in emerging, potentially high-growth Australian businesses via its Internet-based Enterprise Market.
THE great expectation over the Anketell project – which had the hearts of stockbrokers all a flutter last year – is slowly taking shape under the management of its joint venture partners.
Ever wondered why some businesses thrive and grow rapidly from humble beginnings to major successes while others just roll along in a comfortable malaise unaware of impending doom?
BUSINESSES intending to enter the South West Small Business Awards should be preparing their applications now, says Leschenault Business Enterprise Centre manager Alison Lannin.
Organisational values will be of paramount importance in the new millennium, says Modal (Measurable Organisational Development and Learning) managing director Neil McGrechan.
