Ken Boase

Majestic Resources NL has been almost entirely restructured in the past nine months to achieve profitability.

Majestic Resources NL is set to make a purchasing decision on the rich Messina diamond mine in South Africa.The Perth-based diamond miner is undergoing due-diligence work on the mine, 140km from Kimberley, with a decision expected by June.

Some locals claim that the local whitegoods seller and the local supermarket are missing out on the macro dollars.Ms Rowlands does not entirely agree.

WHILE the Pilbara and Northwest Shelf are being championed by many media outlets as heading the latest resources-led economic boom for Australia, not all is rosy for the local business community.

THE success of Kalgoorlie/Boulder’s Saint Barbara’s Festival is typical of the resilience of the Goldfields business community and is seen as reuniting the mining community with the general population.

WA Labour Relations Minister John Kobelke says the Industrial Relations Reform Bill 2002 Bill aims to promote a “more harmonious workplace with less stress, less intimidation, less exploitation and to put in place world’s best industrial practices to ...

PERTH and other urban business centres throughout WA are being encouraged to forge new, or strengthen existing, links with their country cousins as part of the Year of the Outback celebrations this year.

PERTH lawyer Greg McIntyre, who represented ‘Eddie’ Koiki Mabo in the famous 1992 High Court decision, which led to the Native Title Act being passed in 1993, says the next phase of the process will be one of land management – possibly a treaty.

A NEW traineeship scheme aimed at giving indigenous students a boost in the job stakes has managed a retention rate of 80 per cent and a pass rate of 60 per cent, making it one of the more successful training models in recent years.