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Attorney-General Jim McGinty's proposed magistrates court reform legislation has prompted concern for those chasing small debts.

R&D Initiative director Byron Sharp had a number of Perth's top marketing executives analysing their brand building strategies last week when he told a meeting that many commonplace marketing theories were really myths.

DEVELOPERS and the Property Council of WA have expressed concern ahead of a Government report due mid year concerning proposed changes to the residential components of tourism projects.

While outdoor cooking is nothing new to most Australians, a Perth man is finding new ways to make the barbecue an indispensable culinary tool, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered.

THE results of a collaborative project involving the State Government, universities and more than 40 businesses are on public view in Subiaco.

THE Rising Stars survey is a platform to showcase private enterprises and unlisted public companies in Western Australia that have sustained high rates of growth over the past two financial years ending June 30 2003.

BIOTECHNOLOGY firm Ozgene says its aim is to create a large bio-pharmaceutical operation in Western Australia to rival its global multinational competitors.

THE rapid growth in housing lending has been great news for Australian Finance Group, which has a hand in nearly 10 per cent of all new housing loans across the country.

KYM Illman is one of those people for whom success breeds success.

AT age 26, and with limited skills in IT, Patrick Ng, the founder of telecommunications carrier Global Dial, saw an opportunity to create his own business.

A FEW big players have dominated the agribusiness investment market in Australia but Rewards Group has defied the odds to carve a successful niche.

THE Woodside Building and the Perth Convention & Exhibition Centre are two of the biggest recent commercial construction projects in Perth – and Blackadder Group supplied scaffo

THE Rising Stars survey provides unique insights into the strategies and outlook of fast-growing Western Australian

MOSS Brothers founder and chief executive Jeff Moss has handed over the reigns to the winery's accountant, Mark Buck

BOTH Western Australia's wine and tourism industries are emerging as big winners from the Australia US Free Trade Agreement negotiations.

Both sides of the heritage argument are passionate in their views. WA Business News recently gathered some of the key heritage players together to discuss a raft of heritage issues, and maybe find some solutions. Tracey Cook reports.

ALTHOUGH some fairly significant hurdles remain, the Free Trade Agreement with the US is anticipated to come into force by the beginning of 2005.

IN a an unprecedented move the Heritage Council last month offered to make up a $150,000 profit shortfall to the developer of the controversial Court Hotel project if part of the Beaufort Street building was retained in the planned residential and retail

MANY of the participants in the recent WA Business News heritage forum considered the State Government's implementation of planning authorities to be a double-edged sword.

A COLLABORATIVE effort between developers ERBEAC and designer/builder Gavin Constructions has resulted in a unique new regional call centre for Bunbury's largest employer, Centrelink

FREMANTLE'S Challenger TAFE will use a $7.5 million Federal Government grant to build new technical learning facilities and update student and staff facilities in an attempt to attract more local and overseas students.

THE Western Australian branches of the Property Council of Australia and the Urban Development Institute of Australia have released a planning processes review study outlining more

WORKPLACE Relations Minister Kevin Andrews has told Federal Parliament that the Building Industry Taskforce will become a permanent policing body, a year after the Royal Commission

IINET managing director Michael Malone has secured the top individual honour at this year's Western Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications Awards.

VAL Morgan may not think cinema slide advertising is a profitable venture in Western Australia, but a former senior executive Tony Brooks believes there is a strong market for the 15-second still ads.

A PHOTOGRAPHY feature commemorating the Bali bombings for Melbourne's The Age newspaper has earned Perth photographer Tony McDonough a WA photography award.

NO matter what anyone says about young people today or the litigious nature of our society, every now and then something turns all that sour stuff on its head.

REGULAR State Scene readers will know that new Federal Labor leader Mark Latham was treated sympathetically rather than circumspectly in this column on becoming leader.

A REVIEW of the Australian Stock Exchange's corporate governance guidelines has recommended changes to assist smaller listed companies.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Alexander Downer was in Perth last week for talks with local business and economic groups about the benefits of free trade.

Three quarters of listed Western Australian companies have changed their name over the years. Matthew Hooper and Mark Beyer have delved into the archives to review the changed identities of listed stocks.

APOLLO Gold Mining is an up-and-coming mining company while Clearview Capital is a ‘shell company' with no activities, so at first glance they don't seem to have much in common.