MALCOLM and Pauline Tew joke that they have the perfect combination of brains and brawn, combining 50 years of experience in international tourism and hospitality between them.
WHILE there are plenty of people sighing with relief that the BHP Billiton takeover of Rio Tinto fell in a heap, the Note was amused to hear one unexpected reason.
THE recent encroachment of Chinese producers into the state's resource sector has brought into question the value of shareholder returns, with cost plus off-take deals playing into Chinese hands.
THE Christie's broker who sold an 1863 double magnum of Chateau Lafitte to Howard Park founder Jeff Burch and his friend was horrified to find out they drank it.
DURING the past two months there has been an unprecedented wave of bad economic news and plunging business confidence; but just how bad is Western Australia's economic outlook? Many people ask rhetorically why there is so much gloom in the local business
GLOBAL engineering and environmental services firm Golder Associates has opened a new laboratory in Osborne Park to extend its testing service capabilities.
THE recruitment industry is anticipating increased demand for its services as the global economic crisis forces companies to slash jobs and laid-off employees seek professional agencies to resume employment.
ACCESS Economics co-founder Geoff Carmody's assessment of the impact of the global economic crisis on the state's tourism industry made for some pretty sobering reading.
THE failure of one commercial venture could provide a boost for a new and potentially much larger venture at the University of Western Australia, which is the likely headquarters of a $20 million radio astronomy research centre.
AGRICULTURE and Food Minister Terry Redman met Malaysia's Minister for Agriculture and Agro-based Industry, Dato Mustapa Mohamed, in Perth last week to discuss expanding the livestock trade.
IT seems one of the final sanctuaries from that ubiquitous modern-day technological wonder, the mobile phone, is about to be breached as airlines operating within Australia consider allowing the full-blown use of in-flight connectivity.
LAST week, State Scene outlined how Australia would have become a true democracy if the 1891 draft constitution of South Australia's democratic-minded premier, Charles Kingston, was adopted.
KWINANA-BASED engineering and fabrication company Ausclad Group epitomises the challenges facing Western Australia's mining services companies: just when it completed the recruitment of a new senior management team, two of its clients have suspended major
THE National Australia Bank's Business Planning Survey has revealed an alarming level of complacency amongst the state's small business owners when it comes to planning for the future, with 87 per cen
Embattled technology developer Structural Monitoring has raised over $1 million through a rights issue, enough to keep the company going on a reduced cost basis.
Rio Tinto plans to cut 14,000 jobs, slash its 2009 capital spending from $9 billion to $4 billion and increase asset sales in order to reduce its $38.9 billion debt by a further $10 billion by the end of next year.
Premier Colin Barnett says he cannot guarantee reliable power supply for Western Australia for the next three years, as he delivers his "school report" into his first 79 days in office.
Perth-based energy group Aviva Corp has terminated its $22 million merger with Canadian coal producer Northern Energy and Mining Inc due to a lower than expected interest in a project.
The federal government will provide $10 million over four years to support the expansion of Clontarf Academies to improve the education, life skills and employment prospects of 700 Indigenous young men in Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
Construction of a new $420 million NewGen Neerabup gas-fired power station has begun, with the 330 megawatt plant to provide additional capacity to the South West Interconnected System starting from next summer.
Australian small and medium enterprises say they are burdened by the complexity of regulation, according to a global study of tax professionals by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.
