Staff Reporters

Whether people personally lost a job or not, the downsizing of the ’80s and ’90s has created a paradigm shift in the way people view their work life and manage their careers.

WORKPLACE agreements are not scary. They are an ideal vehicle for the determination of workplace rights and obligations between an employee and his or her employer.

WORK is expected to start before September on the $16 million Bijou Marina Village near Busselton.Already pre-sales are worth more than $5 million, representing 60 per cent of stage one of the project with ten residences sold.

HIRE Intelligence is currently creating a recruitment consultancy franchise chain.At $40,000 per franchise, the cost includes a four week training course and $6,000 initial advertising spent on behalf of the franchisee.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission is currently scrutinising companies that fundamentally alter the direction of their business to incorporate Internet-based and ‘hi-tech’ assets.

EAST Perth and North-bridge are still attracting strong buyer demand.

A JUNIOR Canadian-listed company, Banro Resources Corporation, has had its 13 million ounce gold mine in the southern Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) seized, its field equipment looted and four of its staff jailed for treason in Ki

CONNECTING your business to the Internet should never be a guessing game.

THE State Budget was a disappointing result for the WA tourism industry, says Tourism Council Australia branch manager Brian Hearne.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission recently announced it would extend relief granted from the prospectus provisions of the Corporations Law for employee share issues.

A handsome new $5 million office/apartment building proposed in West Perth was specially designed by architect Andrew Campion, of Campion Design Group, to combine city views with contemporary living.

A small Sydney-based company, with widespread WA distribution of its mostly pharmaceutical products, has achieved an international breakthrough with a new technology.

Hotmix Group provides Internet Services squarely focused on the needs of business.

MORE than 70 per cent of the finalists in this year’s WA Tourism Awards for Excellence are from the regions, with the Kimberley and South West providing 50 per cent.

Melbourne-based consultant Peter Moore has been appointed by Sovereign Resources (Australia) NL to spearhead their marketing strategy for its $78 million SRDC manganese sulphate project, locat-ed 61 kilometres southeast of Nullagine in the Pilbara region

An international hotel chain has secured its first foothold in WA’s hospitality industry with a management contract for a $55 million development in North Fremantle.

THE Internet’s pace of adoption has eclipsed the take-up rate of all preceding communications technologies.

Visitors to the City Beach foreshore in the near future may be surprised to discover a new cafe/restaurant for their entertainment.

WORKSHOPS are being held throughout WA to discuss the next five year strategy for the state’s tourism industry.The WA Tourism Commission has employed independent consultant Market Equity to meet with a wide range of industry bodies to investigate their

The eyes of the nickel world were firmly fixed on WA at an event to examine progress at the nickel laterite processing facilities at Murrin Murrin, Bulong and Cawse in the eastern Goldfields.

With the Internet Phantom Menace casting a shadow over the business world and so many small to medium-size businesses acquiring technologies from different sources, it’s a lot like dancing with wolves (providers) while trying to make peace with the Indian

Imagine if I were to ask ten of the most talented and experienced entre-preneurs: “what is the most important ingredient in running a successful service business?”. I could get ten different answers: knowledge, experience, capital, advertising, training,

THE recent move by the Bank of England to sell 125 tonnes of gold this year stopped dead a rally in the precious metal.

A major retail centre in Albany, the Dog Rock Shopping Centre, has been placed on the market by its vendors at a proposed price of between $7 million and $8 million.

In its first year of operation, Perth-based First Quantum Minerals Ltd has commissioned two new mines in Cen-tral Africa and placed its Likasi copper-cobalt tailings project in the Shaba province of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) into mothballs.

iiNET is WA owned and provides effective Internet solutions for business customers.

1998 WA Tourism Awards winner El Questro has been nominated for the Sir David Brand Award for Tourism in this year’s awards.

Online share trading has been in Australia for two years, and now Internet stockbrokers are fighting for business through full-page press and television advertising.

Commercial interest in the CBD continues to be strong, according to a report by real estate company Herron Todd White.

THE cobalt-rich mineral resources of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are being exploited to the detriment of the country’s environment and to the financial benefit of African leaders of state.

Worldwide Internet are an Internet Service Provider based in Victoria Park.

LOCAL tourism operators are pleased with the positive comment being made about the revised belltower design, says Tourism Council Australia president Laurie O’Meara. He said the belltower will quickly become a ‘must visit’ for people visiting Perth.