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THE Department of Mineral and Petroleum resources has redesigned and relaunched the online version of its Western Australian Petroleum Information Management System.

HEALTH software supplier Working Systems Solutions is to implement an Internet-based Mental Health Information System for the ACT Department of Health, Housing and Community Care.

iiNet Limited has adopted a loss-making policy in regional WA so it can improve its share of the ADSL market.

Broadband Internet access has been the talk of the telecommunications sector for more than five years. In the following issues, WA Business News will focus on what broadband is, how much it costs and which companies offer it.EVEN am...

TWO years after a ‘company-making’ deal to supply online public relations services to an international mining conglomerate, public relations firm Mars Group has released an offering for small to medium-sized businesses.

MALCOLM Auld is either very brave or a visionary but, whatever opinion you hold, his view of the future of online marketing has upset a lot of advertising agencies in Australia.

THE arrival of national cosmetics phenomenon Mecca Cosmetica in Perth is delivering a new retail experience for Claremont shoppers.

SAFETY authorities have fired a warning shot across the bows of the fishing industry, claiming the sector has an unacceptably high number of deaths.

THE failure of King Street Restaurant Mezzonine is proving a legal headache for all involved, with conjecture over the rights to use a laneway for alfresco dining clouding the future of the site.

VENUES that contract the services of entertainers will not face the administrative headache that could have been caused by a proposed section of the Government’s Labor Relations Reform Bill.

ALCOA Australia and Hamersley Iron have maintained their dominance as the two largest exporters in WA for the 2000/2001 financial year.

AUTHOR and professional public speaker Richard Hadden is a promoter of people power.

MANAGING your career in today’s employment market is the focus of a breakfast seminar series, Hold a Mirror to your Career, which begins at the WA Club next month.

SOME of you may work in new and emerging businesses, or ones that have been restructured.

THE property industry has hit back at suggestions an increase in stamp duty is on the cards in the upcoming State Budget.

MANAGING commercial property is a vital revenue stream for the bigger agents in the city.

LUNCH bars are emerging as a great entry-level business for people seeking a career in small business.At last count there were 23 lunch bars in the rapidly expanding industrial suburb of Malaga.

MORE than 20 WA companies are exhibiting their goods at a major South-East Asian food and beverage exhibition this week – Food and Hotel Asia 2002.

AMBASSADORS and consul generals descended on WA this week for a three-day visit that took them down to Margaret River and north to Karratha for a brief on Australian Liquefied Natural Gas, and the Woodside and Hamersley Iron projects.

There’s a lot more to cocktails than paper umbrellas and Fluffy Ducks, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered (much to her delight) recently.

Australian Leisure and Hospitality group’s looking to bring a little bit of culture to Perth, be it European or associated with a Victoria Park landmark.

More used to emptying wine barrels than filling them, David Pike continues his work experience at Devils Lair, and checks on the area’s reds.

INVESTORS in resource stocks have generally enjoyed strong returns over the past three years.

MACQUARIE Bank is offering retail investors an opportunity to buy in to a new private equity fund, the Macquarie Private Equity Trust II.

BANK customers are increasingly unhappy with the service provided by their institution.

A STRONG rebound in international shares in March was not sufficient to offset a subdued Australian market, with local funds under management declining slightly.

THINGS appear anything but peaceful at Hallmark Consolidated. Former chairman Alan van Noort was rolled as a director when he failed to get the numbers in a general meeting held last week behind closed doors.

AN American stockbroker once told me: “If people really knew what we get up to on Wall Street, we would all be in a lot of trouble”.

Much maligned in recent times, tax-effective schemes in the agriculture sector appear set to make a comeback, although in a streamlined form, as Mark Beyer reports on pages 6, 7 & 8.

THE Australian Tax Office has had a dramatic impact on the tax-effective investment sector over the past two years.However, participants in new projects can feel confident that a favourable tax regime will apply to their investments.

THE current regulatory structure for agricultural investment schemes is inadequate and could lead to a re-run of the unscrupulous practices of the mid-1990s, research group van Eyk Capital has warned.

IT has been a tumultuous few years for the proponents of managed investment schemes, with some tax-effective products becoming outcasts as industry players try to distance themselves from a spate of bad publicity.