Adam Orlando

THE state’s business brokers are experiencing a surge in activity as business optimism about the year ahead creates an environment conducive to selling, particularly in the IT sector.

THE Australian Services Union is calling witnesses before A Fair Work Australia hearing in a pay equity test case aimed at lifting the salaries of the state’s social and community sector workers.

Western Australian Premier Colin Barnett says he will ask the Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to either scrap or review plans for a super profits tax on the resources sector during talks today in Perth.

STARTED in 2002 by staffing and recruitment veteran John Cooling, SmartWorker has grown to employ 10 employees servicing more than 100 companies in the mining and heavy industry sectors.

Bill Marmion has been plucked from relative obscurity to take over besieged Troy Buswell's portfolios of Commerce; Science and Innovation; and Housing and Works.

PINK isn’t a colour usually associated with Western Australia’s traditionally male-dominated mine sites. But with about 14,000 Australian women diagnosed with breast cancer each year, mining dump body tray manufacturer Duratray International has gone pin

OFFICE 2 Go was created by Belmont-based office furniture manufacturer, Freiberg Australia, in 2007 to accommodate the growing number of urgent requirements by clients that needed a fast turnaround in office fit-outs.

REGARDLESS of the rhetoric of corporate responsibility and the greater good, most corporations and business people become involved in arts bodies and foundations due to a personal interest in the arts.

LARGE organisations eager to contribute to the not-for-profit sector often lack the time to adequately research where funds or workplace volunteers can be best directed.