Noel Dyson

THE SBDC will not be removed or rolled into another government department under the new Labor Government.

A PROPOSAL to turn 356 Murray Street, Perth into an eating house and bar could still get off the ground, even though Perth City Council refused it.

THE proposed private port and livestock holding facility is just one of a number of major projects that could help revitalise Kwinana, an area which is suffering rampant unemployment after massive job losses.

INTERNET financial information company Smartnews has lost its third chief executive officer in less than a year, with the departure of Jason Willoughby after barely two months in the job.

TENSIONS on WA building sites have eased with the Construction, Forestry, Mining, and Energy Union concentrating its aggression on the Australian Workers Union.

CLIVE Brown's appointment as Small Business Minister has drawn mixed reactions from the small business community.But do small business owners really know him?

AFTER completing a backflip routine that would make an Olympic gymnast proud, the Federal Govern-ment should have delivered all that small business wanted.

PERTH'S professional firms are falling over themselves to get their staff decked out in casual clothes.Accounting and legal giants such as PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Freehills have adopted full casual dress codes.

ACCOUNTING firm KPMG has beefed up its Perth office to help catch corporate crooks.Former National Crime Authority regional director Michael Cashman will head the firm's WA forensic accounting practice.

CLIVE Brown's appointment as Small Business Minister has drawn mixed reactions from the small business community.But do small business owners really know him?

SMALL businesses and farmers who run their businesses through non-discretionary trusts have been given a reprieve – for now.

THE Australian Tax Office has lost a valuable source of intelligence with the simplific-ation of the Business Activity Statement.

THE International Wine Tourism Conference and Expo scheduled to be held at the Leeuwin Estate on March 25-28 has been postponed for a year.

DWINDLING union member-ships and a push for power is behind an inter-union squabble that has flared up again in Perth.

HORROR of horrors. The venerable Western Australian Club has dropped its jacket and tie rule.

THE future of the Small Business Development Corporation as an independent entity remains uncertain.Small Business Minister Clive Brown has denied Labor has any plans to do away with the organisation.

SMALL business has been heard, winning simpler Business Activity Statements and Pay As You Go tax forms.Most accounting industry and small business groups have welcomed the changes but believe they should have been made sooner.

AUSTRALIA'S busiest soil and plant analysis laboratory has officially opened in Bibra Lake.

UNION unrest within the first weeks of the Gallop Government's reign threatens to bring WA's construction industry to a standstill.

LIKE behemoths awakening from a summer slumber, Perth's corporate giants are warming up for the start of the Corporate Challenge.

WA's ailing small shopping centre market has been boosted by a Melbourne property syndicator seeking to buy the Kalamunda Central Shopping Centre for almost $12 million.

OVERLOOKING business interruption insurance could mean the difference between a business closing its doors for a couple of days or for good.

PORTERS and Barmans liquor store owners are smiling following a deal done with the Australian Liquor Group.Outfront Liquor Service, which owns the Porters and Barmans brands, was acquired by listed player ALG for $1.5 million

FOR more than 25 years, Harry Perkins has been a fixture around the Wesfarmers boardroom table, nearly 15 of those as chairman.

WA-BASED drilling mud and chemicals supplier Imdex has formalised a more than US$47 million deal to supply drilling fluids and chemicals to the Middle East.

BUSINESS groups have walked away happy from a meeting with senior Federal Government figures about simplifying the Business Activity Statement.

CLIVE Brown's selection as Minister for Small Business has drawn a mixed reaction from WA's small business community.Until Labor's election win, he was shadow spokesman for small business, commerce and trade and science and technology.

WESFARMERS greatest protection, and arguably one of its greatest hindrances, is close to becoming a thing of the past.

EVEN the new WA Govern-ment may not be able to stop land planned to be turned into a park in the affluent East Perth Redevelopment Authority area being used for housing.

A NEW Internet tool is letting people gather all their account balances in the one place.The process, known as account aggregation, requires users to identify their accounts and provide their user identification and passwords.The aggregator uses t...

List nets profitWA'S top 300 listed companies turned a profit during the past financial year, jumping from a massive collective loss to register a combined operating profit of $229 million.

POOR public perception of banks has helped create the mortgage origination industry.Originators offer a smorgasbord of lenders who all compete for the business of mortgages.