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While participants in the WA Business News forum agreed that more inner-city development was needed, the issues and consequences that arise when residential and commercial developments are combined are well known, as evidenced by the Old Swan Brewery and

Busselton-based Thumtronics Ltd has raised $588,000 from investors to develop a new electronic musical instrument called the 'Thummer'.

A number of other winners at the Margaret River Wine Show were announced besides Evans & Tate last night.

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Over the years I have heard many stories of inequity when it comes to the handling of disputed mining claims.

Last week, State Scene surveyed the opening moves by key Liberal Party financial boffins to ensure their party will soon tap into what's called state public funding of parties.

In the future, probably closer to the year 2020 than today, there might be an iron ore mine on the Shovelanna tenement co-worked by a small company called Cazaly Resources.

It was out with the old and in with the new during November as Houghton Wines made two important decisions about its future.

Long-time Margaret River porducer Clairault Wines has won the tender to become the sole wine sponsor for the UWA Perth International Arts Festival 2006.

After long period of industry speculation over Westpoint Group's operations in the risky business of apartment developments, the corporate regulator last week took action against companies within its property empire.

THE long-running bid by CI Resources Ltd for unlisted Christmas Island phosphate miner Phosphate Resources Ltd has hit a major hurdle, failing to win Federal Court approval for its proposed scheme

The unprecedented China-fed demand for iron ore has set the stage for a new golden age of development in Western Australia. The rush for the big Pilbara producers to catch up with demand has been coupled with the emergence of the state's second iron ore r

Australia's two biggest iron ore miners, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto, have either just spent or have in the pipeline more than $10 billion worth of short-term Pilbara expansion plans to cash in on the booming China-fed steel market.

The changing face of the international iron ore game is probably best exemplified by the current rapid development of Australia's second largest iron ore region in Western Australia's Mid-West region.

Western Australia's iron ore export industry started in the mid 1960s with the first major shipments to Japan, expanded to South Korea and Taiwan in the early 1980s and, in more recent years, China.

Has anyone noticed that the iron ore industry is morphing into something resembling gold?

Perth-run company CustomVis plc has reported its third successive annual loss and launched a new capital raising, continuing the long and expensive journey to commercialise surgical laser technology developed in Western Australia.

Frustrated at its inability to control non-aviation development on federally owned airport land, the state government has taken a swipe at the Commonwealth and, in the process, BGC's proposed brickworks.

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That dreaded M-word has reappeared within Liberal Party ranks.

Some Perth investors with an eye on BHP Billiton will be hoping for an insight into the company when they toddle along to its annual meeting in Perth tomorrow (Friday November 25)

Rod Properjohn and Michael Zekulich's book Restaurants WA is a timely and welcome addition to the already vast collection of literature on the state's food and wine industry.

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WA Business News' third annual salary survey has idesntified a growing pool of millionaire executives but found it is necessary to go beyond the headline numbers to understand remuneration trends. Mark Beyer reports.

Wesfarmers broke with widely accepted industry practice when it negotiated the salary package for its new chief executive Richard Goyder earlier this year.

The number of Western Australian chief executives earning more than $1 million increased to 37 last financial year, helped in most cases by bonuses and share options.

Shareholders in engineering and mining contractor Macmahon Holdings gave the company a bloodied nose at its annual general meeting this month, with shareholders who hold 19 per cent of shares voting against the company's remuneration plan.

The role of chairman of a board of directors is normally a part-time position, yet the chairmen at some of Western Australia's biggest companies earn more than most chief executives.

Australian chief executives are guaranteed half of their income, irrespective of performance, a national survey has found.