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THE number of new home starts in Australia increased in the December quarter, despite the rise in interest rates the month before.

COMO’S Pagoda Hotel is to be rebranded Esplanade River Suites, following its acquisition by Marylyn New’s Esplanade Hotels Group.

THE new president of Western Australia’s Pastoralists and Graziers Association claims short-sighted local grain growers have succeeded in ‘beaching’ their handling cooperative, CBH Ltd, limiting the p

Visiting WA: Dave Snowden, founder and chief scientific officer, Cognitive Edge, UK, to speak at Global Convergence: Answers to Management and Compliance on May 1.

THE big end of town has been increasingly frustrated by the tortuously slow pace of Perth’s CBD, which really does lack vibrancy.

Western Australian epidemiologist Professor Fiona Stanley is the only Western Australian among the first group to be invited to join Prime Minister Kevin Rudd’s 2020 Australia Summit.

THE first tranche of Australand’s Cockburn Central apartment release has been sold, with 32 of a total of 40 apartments sold last week.

UK group Fenner plc has announced plans to invest $70 million establishing a factory at Kwinana to manufacture steelreinforced conveyor belts.

A MAJORITY of Australians think renewable energy should receive more subsidies than fossil fuels like coal, an opinion poll released by Geenpeace has found.

BLAKISTON & Crabb partner Michael Blakiston has been rated as one of the top 20 mining lawyers worldwide, in a survey by London-based publisher Who’s Who Legal.

GLOBAL mining giant BHP Billiton is not your average Olympic sponsor.

THIS week’s edition of WA Business News puts forward a diverse selection of city-building and community-building ideas for Western Australia.

FORMING networks and alliances with like-minded small business owners has paid dividends for Sherryn McBride, principal of home-based marketing consultancy business Marketing Talk.

SCULPTURE by the Sea started in Sydney 12 years ago. It was originally a one-day event at Bondi, created as part of the Olympic Arts Festival.

Plans for a redevelopment of the old railway workshops in Midland have been released by the Midland Redevelopment Authority.

PERTH investment banking group Argonaut has sold a 20 per cent stake in the business to Apollo Asia Opportunity Master Fund, LP, and formed a strategic alliance with Apollo for its new merchant bankin

A SIGNIFICANT collection of Australian women’s art has been donated to The University of Western Australia.

RIO Tinto has established a partnership with Curtin University to develop the mining giant’s second innovation centre, the Materials and Sensing Centre.

Unemployment rate: WESTERN Australia’s unemployment rate fell to 2.8 per cent in February 2008, down from 3.1 per cent a year earlier.

Wind turbines on Adelaide Terrace may sound like a futuristic vision for the city, but architecture firm Woodhead is hoping to break new ground with its design for Stockland’s Dur

PEOPLE are our greatest asset. Have you heard that one before? Attracting and retaining talented people is always a challenge.

NEW York-based defence contractor L-3 Communications Corporation has expanded its Australasian operations with the acquisition of HSA Systems Pty Ltd.

Two years ago we presented 34 ideas, some have been repeated this year, some have become redundant.

THE Small Business Development Corporation will launch its new Women in Business network at the end of next month.

ON a much smaller scale is the establishment of a growers market at the old Graylands Primary School, now known as Mt Claremont. The market attracts hundreds of people every Saturday morning.

Celebration Homes has won an award for most affordable family housing at the Master Builders Association – BankWest Metropolitan Housing Excellence awards.

The University of Western Australia’s Centre for Water Research director, Professor Jorg Imberger, has been invited by HRH Duke of Edinburgh to give this year’s Prince Philip Lecture in London.

DEBATE over Perth’s social and economic development usually focuses on big transformational projects like the proposed city foreshore development, but there is a lot to be gained from also looking at

Former Wallabies captain and mining finance expert Nick Farr-Jones will entertain guests at the Activ Dragonfly Corporate Leaders Lunch, March 25 in the Astral Room at Burswood.

ESPLANADE Hotel Fremantle owner Marylyn New has bought the Broadwater Pagoda Hotel and Apartments in Como for a price estimated at between $15 million and $20 million.

Tony Robinson has a greater appreciation than most people of the fragrant aroma of a good wine.