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The headline of a story reporting Premier Geoff Gallop's recent address to the WA Media Club read: ‘Gallop sorry on taxes as poll looms'.

It's not often that a business says thanks to government. Duncan Stone and his crew at solar energy specialist Solco are doing that – in stereo.

The much-debated sinking of the rail line that divides the CBD and Northbridge is predicted to send property prices upwards and inject much-needed life into the neglected precinct.

Western Australian owned and operated Seashells Hospitality Group is currently undergoing expansions on three of its four tourism sites.

The hospitality scene in Northbridge is experiencing a slow revival thanks to a couple of new operators who have upped the ante in both food and service.

The owners of popular Waterman cafe, The Wild Fig Cafe, are looking to open another business in the northern suburbs this year.

Malcolm McCusker will launch a new label in February, McCusker's Wines, based in the Chittering Valley.

It takes a perspective from outside the square to find comparisons between raising children and running a company, but that's how one of Western Austra

Learning to adapt to changing circumstances is a key component in long-term professional survival, according to former teacher, lawyer, barrister, and

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Networking and becoming a known commodity is one of the key elements to success in business, according to Heather Zampatti.

Some of last year's WA Business News 40under40 winners share their thoughts on being young women in business.

Penny Flett has the passion and enthusiasm for her work more often associated with a recent graduate than a 20-year veteran in the field.

While women remain a minority in senior management and around boardroom tables, Western Australia has produced several leaders in their fields. Marsha Jacobs talks to some of this State's top performers.

Communications company Vodafone has emerged as one of the major winners from the Western Australian Government's new Mobile Telecommunications Contract.

I struggle to come to terms with the way political parties deal with the election process and I am not looking forward to the next few weeks.

A LACK of research and development funding is the principal reason Western Australia is falling behind the R&D powerhouses of New South Wales and Q

ISA Technologies, the company that invested $5 million in a supercomputer in 2003, is providing access to that infrastructure, free of charge, to what

THAT simple ideas can take significant amounts of money, time and research effort to bring to market readiness is not news to the team at Intierra.

IT was the expertise of two Edith Cowan University researchers that prompted PanoramaFLAT to make Perth a major base for a planned global roll-out of i

TWO decades ago the staff at emerging technology company Poseidon Scientific Instruments were tinkering away on radio technology for cray fisherman.

FARMING electronics developer and electronic display sign manufacturer Computronics is a significant investor in research and development in Western Au

AN independent panel has been formed to assess the economic and social impacts of the State Government's wetlands policy before it goes to parliament.

PERTH property industry pundits are expecting a steady year for the residential property market in 2005 and a consolidation of last year's market posit

IT was once said in New York that when the bell hops start giving share tips it's time to sell.

TIM Treadgold is correct when he states that Xstrata's primary corporate goal is to improve shareholder returns (WA Business News, December 9 2004).

Everyone seeks to be and be known as authentic. Very few are.

YOUR correspondent Tim Treadgold has put forward some interesting hypotheses to explain the delay in getting AEC's prospectus over the line (Briefcase,

A DECADE in the hospitality business is good going by any measure, so former hotel broker Renzo Deleo must be doing something right.

JUST as the Federal Labor party rues its attempt to innovate with its leadership during the past year, we mustn't lose sight of the need to experiment from time to time. Innovation is the key to survival and there must always be room to try new ways of t

THE old Mamma Maria's restaurant on the corner of Lake and Aberdeen streets in Northbridge will reopen as Hunter's Piano Bar in the coming months.