Noel Dyson

A RECORD producer, an Internet maximiser and a mining software producer are three of the winners in the inaugural Asia Pacific Information Technology and Telecommunication awards.

AFTER giving Barrack Street traders the short-term parking bays they needed, Perth City Council has changed its mind – again.

KUNUNURRA company JJ McDonald & Sons Engineering has won the $3 million contract to enlarge Wyndham's 27 year old Moochalabra Dam.

MORE than 50 per cent of Aust-ralian employers believe the proposed work for the dole scheme for unemployed people up to the age of 40 will be a winner, says the Morgan & Banks Job Index survey.

A CONSORTIUM including Mul-tiplex Constructions, Rockingham Park and Satterley and Company has been selected to redevelop the former railway marshalling yards at Leighton.

SHOPPING centres in WA generate one in 20 jobs, a new economic impact study by retail consultants Jebb Holland Dim-asi has found.

A new field of accounting is rapidly gaining acceptance in Australia – so much so that a new body has been set up to maintain its standards.

A multi-million dollar sewerage program being undertaken in a joint venture between the Water Corporation of WA and consulting engineers Gutteridge Haskins & Davey Pty Ltd (GHD) has turned to vacuum systems to reduce costs and overcome civil engineering p

THERE has been an impressive take up rate of electronic commerce by Australian businesses, the latest Yellow Pages Small Business Index has found.

AUSTRALIA Post has been asked by the Australian Competition and Consumer Com-mission to delay price increases for its Ad Post services until October 2000.

AN INFORMATION technology and telecommunications trade mission will visit Israel from 4 to 9 July.Information Technology Minister Richard Alston will lead the mission.

For nearly ten years Expectation managing director Hugh McLernon has been thumbing his nose at two ancient laws to help people fund litigation actions.

A NEW link between Western Power and Telstra will make it easier for Western Australians to set up new phone and electricity accounts.

THE WA branch of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade has launched its own website.

DEVELOPMENT plans for 4 Belle-vue Terrace, West Perth have been refused by council.

SMALL business awards appear to be drawing more support, if this year's Belmont Small Business Awards are any indication. Belmont Enterprise Centre manager Carol Hanlon said support for the awards had been excellent.

A WA university is teaching South East Asians how to reduce work-related injuries and illness.

TWO ERG member companies have been brought under the ERG brand name.

COUNCILLORS have voted to give themselves a pay rise.Due to an amendment to the Local Government Act, the annual attendance fees for councillors will be increased from $5,000 to $6,000.

AS part of the implementation of Nutrition WA:2000, the food industry is encouraged to apply for a nomination for the WA Nutrition Awards.

MORE secretaries are being drawn into the management side of the business a survey by business support personnel firm Alectus has found.

A $1 million contract has been awarded to create 34 fully-serviced residential lots at Carnar-von's NorthWater Estate.

THE first foray into WA's healthy food retail market is expected to prove successful for retailer Healthy Life.

THE break-up of the old Perth City Council and the creation of the Towns of Cambridge, Vincent and Victoria Park has cost $52 million.

EXPORTS of Australian sawnwood and wood-based panels are tipped to rise appreciably over the next decade as log availability increases, says ABARE executive director Brian Fisher.

THE redevelopment of council's Number 8 Car Park on Lake Street is a step closer to becoming a reality. Council voted to adopt its business plan for the redevelopment of the car park.

THE Clough group has won contracts worth $116.7 million in just one week. The group's Indonesian subsidiary PT Petrosea TBK has won a three year extension to a major coal mining contract in the province of Kalimantan on Borneo worth $91 million.

COMMERCE and Trade Minister Hendy Cowan told the launch of the World Airport Transport Training Conference and Tradeshow in Denver that WA had ideal airline pilot training conditions.

FREEDOM Furniture is acquiring the family-owned Guests Group that owns and operates 13 Guests and 5 Ander-sons furniture stores in WA, Victoria and Queensland.

WA'S western rock lobster fishery could become the first in the world to receive international certification as a sustainable, well managed fishery under the recently established Marine Stewardship Council.

WA EMPLOYERS will have to pay an extra $767.53 million in compulsory workers' compensation premiums this year.The Premium Rates Committee has announced compulsory workers' compensation insurance premiums will rise by an average 35.3 per cent on 30 June.

PERTH Airport has rated highly in a survey of quality of service by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.