OFFERS, claims and counteroffers between South African mining giant AngloGold Ltd and United States-based Newmont Mining over Australia’s own Normandy Mining left many investors’ heads spinning.
EXCHANGE Traded Equity Options began operating in Australia in 1976 and, since that time, have grown considerably both in volume and in the number of stocks over which they are based.
THE sickening hike in health fund charges will dim hopes of keeping a lid on inflation this year. Medibank Private was first ambulance off the rank with a 9 per cent hike in premiums.
A DIRECTOR of a public company recently asked me when China might become a member of the WTO. Try last November, chum. Taiwan was admitted in January. While few businessmen are as out of touch as our friend, some might be a tad slow.
TECHNOLOGICAL advances over the past five years are shifting both our job searching habits and the way recruitment agencies conduct their business.This has ramifications for the future job seeker.
WHILE each online employment site offers varying degrees of recruitment tools, other HR technologies are available to help in back office HR automation.
DONNYBROOK has moved a step closer to being home to a new $12 million, one million tonne plantation timber mill.The news follows the release this week of a public environmental review by proponents WA Plantation Resources Pty Ltd.
303 Advertising managing director Stephen Wells has resigned after 12 years with the agency.The surprise announcement follows a difficult year for the local advertising industry which has sustained a 30 per cent cut in Government spending.
Aquarius Platinum, preparing to move from the Alternative Investment Market to the full board of the London Stock Exchange before mid-year, has expressed confidence in the health of world platinum markets this week.
OUTLAW motorcycle gang members helping to organise stop-work meetings, people locked in sea containers, witness intimidation, builders forcing sub contractors to sign union Enterprise Bargaining Agreements and corporate
THE grapes are still rolling in for this year’s WA vintage but already it has become apparent that yields are going to be the lowest on record – a result of the coolest and driest summer in memory.
RESEARCH reports from two different sources have recommended the State Government adopt a more targeted approach to industry development if there is to be continued innovation and development within the WA economy.
LOCAL electronic component manufacturer Miri Engineering is moving its operations to the Wangara Business Estate.The move will locate the business closer to its plastic injecting work, which also is completed on the estate.
WESTERN Australians once only encountered one kind of election promise – that which was made, then honored.Another surfaced some years ago, known as a ‘non-core promise’.
AUSTRALIAN Fast Foods, the operator of the Chicken Treat fast food chain, has bought the national Red Rooster chain following Coles Myer’s decision to sell off the fast food business as part of a strategic review.
LAST week’s trade mission to Perth by the Northern Offshore Federation’s Export Club underscored the growing international profile of WA’s petroleum industry.
THE first tangible signs of a corporate restructure at the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions have taken place in the form of a $262,500 salary package.
LABOUR hire’s old contract-broking model looks to be on the way out in WA, with the State Government naming labour hire firms as ‘employers’ in its proposed Labour Relations Reform Bill.
