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A new study has found that Western Australians are increasingly buying their mortgages through brokers rather than through traditional lenders.

RETICULATION and water management company Total Eden is planning a big expansion into the eastern states after AMP Capital Investors injected up to $20 million into the group, giving it a 65 per ce

THE Note congratulates WA Business News journalist Marsha Jacobs (right), who won the Best Newcomer Prize at the annual WA Media Awards on Saturday night.

Dubai-based Emirates Airline has hit back at calls to stop it gaining additonal flights into Australia by the nation's only international carrier Qantas.

Curtin University of Technology and Murdoch University have decided not to proceed with the proposed merger of the two institutions due to doubts about the impact of such a complex process.

Wine show season is in full swing with results announced from the recent inaugural Blackwood Valley WA Boutique Winemakers Show.

It's rare for the stars to align over all sectors of the property market, but in Western Australia right now the commercial, industrial, retail residential and land markets are all experiencing robust growth. Marsha Jacobs reports.

Four CBD office buildings worth more than $100 million are believed to be under contract for sale, including the prominent Wesfarmers and Clough buildings.

The Gallop government's move to streamline the approvals process for resources developments is a welcome, albeit belated response to a critical issue in this state – making sure we maximise benefit from the boom we are experiencing.

A view has begun to emerge around State Parliament and the major political parties that the Gallop government is approaching a fork in the road.

Peak Oil is a hot topic in the petroleum business, and one that worries government because of the pain being felt at the bowser by voters.

From his Kingsley kitchen-cum-showroom, Brett Coddington practices an increasingly rare culinary art form. A pastry chef of 27 years, Mr Coddington is a chocolate artisan at the top of his game.

Market Equity managing director and shareholder Julie Beeck has had little time to take stock of things in the four years since she was named a winner in the inaugural WA Business News 40under40 Awards.

I had the pleasure of chairing a panel session for our recent Success & Leadership event, The Modern Entrepreneur in WA. The event kicked off the 2006 WA Business News 40under40 Awards by bringing together four previous winners from the program to discuss

The recently released 480-plus-page report on Joondalup Council is a quizzical document.

TAKING the moral high ground can be a very expensive business, as the innocent small shareholders of Consolidated Minerals are discovering.

An ongoing commitment by Ogden International Facilities Corporation to quality service and venues with a penchant for the theatrical was rewarded recently at the Restaurant and Catering Australia Awards for Excellence.

The catering industry is so competitive at the moment that even wineries are getting in on the act.

A small Western Australian interior design firm has been in the spotlight recently after winning several prestigious awards.

Mirvac Fini has sold 110 apartments off the plan in The Point project in Mandurah, moving $150 million worth of real estate in four days.

The State Government is offering the 2.48-hectare Old Swanbourne Hospital site in Mt Claremont for sale by public tender.

Benchmark Projects, project manager of the Mandurah Ocean Marina, has won the Western Australian section of the national Australian Institute of Project Management awards.

The 2006 WA Business News 40under40 Awards program was launched at a breakfast forum featuring four high-profile past winners. Marsha Jacobs reports.

It seems to come around so quickly every year, but our search for the 40under40 has started already.

Sailing aboard Star Flyer (right) is an experience to be savoured, like a fine champagne – slowly, almost subliminally.

Explore Holidays is offering a $400 per person saving on all Canadian-based ‘Personalised Touring' programs booked for travel in April 2006.

Need a break? Work taking over and your partner has just about had it? Here are a couple of special places that will help to restore peace and tranquillity in your life – at least for a few days.

The resignation from state cabinet of Bob Kucera may well provide a boost for young Liberal leader Matt Birney, but it signals just how difficult we make it for our politicians to be normal these days.

Last week's bagging of junior minister Bob Kucera's scalp wasn't a day too soon for Liberal leader Matt Birney, since a consensus was emerging within party ranks that, while he'd made a fairly good start in February, little had happened since to cheer up

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Ten of Northbridge's best-known restaurants are set for a culinary cook off as this month's Northbridge Festival builds to a climax.

October is the time to break out the lederhosen, grab your favourite stein, and sway along to the traditional sounds of an Oompa band during Oktoberfest.