Noel Dyson

A PLAN to build a three storey office and apartment building at 1010 to 1018 Wellington Street in West Perth has been refused, despite an eleventh hour bid by Councillor Tess Stroud.

A PROGRAM designed to reduce car use and make better use of other means of transport has been introduced in South Perth. The TravelSmart program is a marketing campaign promoting the use of alternative transport.

THE contract to construct and primerseal 51.1 kilometres of the Mt Magnet to Sandstone Road has been awarded to BGC Contracting.

SINGAPORE, Australia's largest Asian market, has set itself the goal of becoming Asia's finance and information technology and telecommunications hub.

RETAIL industry employers have been praised for the way they are establishing career paths.

A SOFTWARE package three years in development has won Combinatorics the prize in this year's Asia-Pacific Information Technology and Telecommuni-cations Awards mining category.

It is official. Running a business is bad for your health – and for your marriage.

WA'S agribusiness future lies in taking part wholly in the Indo-nesian food industry, not just exporting, according to a report from Murdoch University's Asia Research Centre.

A WA Government-formed committee, complete with statutory powers, could be helping to decided the planning of the Perth CBD.

AS PETROL sale margins fall petrol station owners are turning their stations into mini supermarkets.

SEX and gambling have drawn two mining companies into .com ventures.

THE much heralded Old Swan Brewery redevelopment is in danger of becoming another block of flats – with a service station attached.

IT IS hoped to foster stronger relations between business and academia when Curtin Business School hosts the inaugural Business Education and Research conference on 14 and 15 October.

AN INVESTMENT of $800,000 by the WA Government has netted $3.4 million from the Fisheries Research Development Corpora-tion for thirteen fisheries' research projects.

EMPLOYERS and employees could soon be negotiating their own workers' compensation packages if a new proposal is accepted.

SHOPPING centres face the threat of major legal payouts to crime victims because they have been miserly with security, a WA security firm warns.

DESPITE the recent Asian financial crisis the Asian consumer is alive and well. Asia's halcyon days prior to the crisis have left Asians with a taste for consumer goods.

SMALL business needs to learn how the GST will affect them – fast, says Small Business Development Corporation director enterprise development Bruce McFarlane.

MEDIATORS and conciliators are reducing the pressure on WA's court system, according to Lawyers Engaged in Alternative Dispute Resolution.

COUNCILLORS have voted to give themselves $10,000 extra allowance on top of the $6,000 they receive for attending meetings.

SMALL training and advisory company Living With Business has won the Emerging Business category in the national Micro Business Awards.

MEAT producers can rest easy after the acquisition of the Metro Meats abattoirs at Katanning and Linley Valley by the producer-owned WA Meat Marketing Cooperative.

THE way to success for secretaries is through increased information technology training, says RecruitmentSolutions WA chief executive Bunty Paramor.

A $2.3 million development planned for the vacant site at 1292 Hay Street has been approved by the Perth City Council.At its 8 June meeting, councillors voted to overturn a staff recommendation that the application be refused.

A LARGE international survey firm has extended its presence in the WA market by opening an office in Fremantle.Germanischer Lloyd is one of the largest maritime surveying firms in the world.

ON JULY 1, the sun will set on the body regulating state-based building societies and credit unions, the Australian Financial Institutions Commission.

INCREASED immigration would impact badly on Australia's unemployment but be good for the economy, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.

THE National Australia Bank hopes to raise up to $2 billion by means of an innovative investment scheme.

WA continued to be the greatest contributor, in absolute and relative terms, to Australian exports for the March quarter 1999, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

AN AUSTRALIAN delegation is heading to Silicon Valley in the US to learn from its venture capitalists.The trade mission includes ‘home-grown' Australian venture capital funds and Aust-ralian representatives of major regional funds.

WA SMALL businesses, especially those with more than 20 employees, are leading in the number of Australian firms showing a profit, according to latest figures from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' Australian Business Longitudinal Survey.

CENTRALISED credit decision making by the major banks is contributing to WA's insolvency crisis, says Castle Gates managing director John McGlue.