Staff Reporters

AUSSIEHOME.COM did well to beat a high-turnover business such as AdultShop.com in the 2000 IT&T Awards Best New Innovation in E-Commerce category – especially given the company has only been around for six months.

DONATING to a charity is not only tax deductible but socially beneficial, says Australian Red Cross manager of public affairs Saskia Verschoor.“Donating to an organisation such as Red Cross not only offers tax benefits, it's also a great investment in

THE SHADOW Minister for Trade and Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate Peter Cook will address the WA International Traders' Club in a luncheon forum entitled Challenges and Opportunities in International Trade in the New Millennium on 16 June.

The worst restaurants and the best restaurants are equallywelcomed by food writers. They make writing easy. It says a lot about contemporary restaurant criticism that a writer only really hits his straps when he has something marvellous to say or, on t

THE RECENT 11th Perth Art Directors' Club Awards followed the visually striking theme of The Year of the Golden Dragon.

THE RECENT 2000 Asia Pacific Information Technology & Telecommunications Awards gala presentation evening yielded more than a few surprise wins.

UK trade development has a new face – British Trade International.

THE HEALTH Department has signed a newfive year contract for the provision of information technology for the WA Government Health System.

HE AUSTRALIAN Securities and Investments Commission has won an International Public Relations Association award.

PERTH'S first commercial kitchen consultant is now available to assist the foodservice industry.

Speaking of problems, can anyone make sense of the new look being adopted by stockbroking firm Hartley Poynton?

PERTH-based junior Nido Petroleum Limited has brought its third oil well into production on the Zhongyuan redevelopment project in China.

AN online rental marketplace offering both real estate agencies and private owners free advertising has recently been launched.

THE HUNT is on for a host for STW9's new local game show Initial Reaction.

THE following company personnel changes have been notified to the WA office of the Australian Stock Exchange:

PERTH'S most popular ad man has died at the age of fifty-seven.

PERTH-based diamond explorer Majestic Resources NL has completed a due diligence on the its newly acquired Masons Deposit in South Africa and plans to start mining diamonds in the third quarter of this year.

WEB design company INature Australia Pty Ltd was pretty chuffed with its win in the 2000 IT&T Awards Games/Arts/Media and Interactive Marketing category.

OVER recent weeks there have been some extraordinary claims made about plans for the future of King Edward Memorial Hospital.

THE PHILIPPINES' ambassador to Australia Delia Domingo-Albert will visit Perth on 19 June to address a Challenge Bank Women In Business Unit seminar.

2000 will go down as one of the better red vintages for the Riverland range, according to BRL Hardy winemaker and manager Paul Kassebaum.“It has also been another record vintage, with an increase in the total crush of 10 per cent on 1999 figures,” Mr K

AusGem International Ltd looks well placed to achieve its aim of raising $6 million by offering twenty-four million shares at 25 cents per share in its float and listing.

Regional Community Award – Edith Cowan University for its Albany Gateway projectBanking & Finance Award – EftNet Technologies for its 13PAID serviceIntelligent Technologies Award – PiVOD Technologies Pty LtdGovernment Award – GetAccess' WestOne O

PERTH'S filmmaking fraternity is up in arms over a new Australian Securities and Investments Commission booklet that casts doubt on the effectiveness of tax-driven film investment schemes.

Hard decisions lie ahead for the fat cat executives at Woodside Petroleum. Their cosy world has been turned upside down by a proposed merger/takeover from the Royal Dutch/Shell group.

WESTERN Australia is making major advances in how we deliver and present our State's services to people through the Internet.

Perth-based Amity Oil NL has paved the way for a smoother gas operation on the Whicher Range permit in the South West.

EPIC Energy has entered an agreement with Wesfarmers Energy to enable a $20 million expansion to Wesfarmers LPG plant at Kwinana.

“Oooh yeah, oh baby yeah,” percolated and spluttered through the wads of white chocolate cake the gen-Xer at the next table was cramming into his mouth. With shards of chocolate and gobs of cream erupting from the sides of his over-stuffed face, the objec

Corks were popping on Brut bottles in the office of First Australian Resources NL with the company's discovery of gas in the US recently.

There is a saying amongst Internet veterans that “...speed is not everything...it is the ONLY thing”.

BUSINESS intelligence software solutions company Cognos has enhanced Peters & Brownes' supply chain network.