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The upward movement in official interest rates has affected confidence among potential borrowers in Western Australia, according to figures from the Department of Land Information.

Like drunks at a party, speculative share traders always say there is time for one more round before quitting.

With the issue of carbon emissions firmly on the national agenda, a not-for-profit group in Perth is encouraging members of the public to reduce their carbon footprint.

A group of the most influential hoteliers in the country sat in Sydney's Hilton Hotel recently and confirmed what many of Perth's Sunday session devotees and midweek revellers already knew; the Brisbane Hotel is the best hotel in the country.

Perth-based engineering and development company GRD Ltd gold spinoff OceanaGold Ltd has successfully completed its merger with NSW-based Climax Mining Ltd.

Greed, in case you hadn't noticed, is rampant.

A cord blood bank facility that could save the lives of Western Australians living with leukaemia, blood cancers and other malignant genetic diseases is to be developed in Perth.

Wagyu, the Japanese breed of beef famed for its marbled fat, has enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in recent years.

The Margaret River region will host the MasterCard World Wine and Travel Summit from November 13 to 17.

The Labor government led by former ABC journalist Alan Carpenter is doing its level best to put the Paul Omodei-led Liberal opposition into power.

Just in case anyone mistakes my cynicism last week about daylight saving suddenly having emerged on the political agenda, it was the process, not the outcome, I was commenting on.

Big retailers, big miners and big contractors sit at the top of WA Business News' second annual survey to find the state's largest employers.

Manufacturing is widely perceived to be an industry in terminal decline, so it's rather surprising that the Australian Bureau of Statistics found it to be one of Western Australia's biggest industry sectors, supporting more than 100,000 jobs.

Property and business services has been the fastest growing industry sector in Western Australia over the past 20 years, Australian Bureau of Statistics data has found.

The state government is by far the biggest employer in Western Australia with 101,920 public servants in June 2006 compared with 98,621 in June 2005.

An 8 per cent fall in university applications in Western Australia for 2006 entry had an immediate impact on staff numbers at Edith Cowan University.

When nickel producer Minara Resources decided last year to pursue the development of a $25 million heap leach demonstration plant, it ran into an unexpected problem.

Perth's Royal Kings Park Tennis Club is aiming to host a Davis Cup tie after the completion of its $20 million redevelopment, scheduled for March next year, with club officials confirming they are in discussions with organisers of the tournament.

A further rise in interest rates next week, coupled with increasing housing prices and slow residential land releases in Western Australia, has industry analysts predicting a significant fall in housing starts in 2006-07.

Suzan Pervan says her luckiest break came following her departure from top four chartered accounting firm Ernst & Young, as it provided the catalyst for her, and Ernst and Young partner Dalton Gooding, to establish Gooding Pervan Chartered Accountants.

Western Australian Planning Commission chairman Jeremy Dawkins believes the state's future regional planning powers may be decentralised, with regional lead agencies taking control using their own budgets and simple region schemes.

Brett Martin's Trailcraft group of companies manufactures aluminium trailer boats, boat trailers and caravans and sells them through five of its own retail stores and 27 independently owner retail outlets across Australia.

The wine business has bruised more than a few entrepreneurs in recent years but it certainly didn't dissuade the Rathbone family from stepping across the Nullarbor to claim their own piece of Margaret River.

Mining might have received all the headlines in the past year, but Tessitura managing director and founder Liddy McCall is proof that other sectors are firing as well.

Daylight saving is an issue that I welcome back onto the agenda, even if I am deeply suspicious about how it has suddenly woken from its coma after more than a decade on drip-feed.

“Under new management”. We've all seen that sign many times on an A-frame outside a business, or writ-large across a shop window.

The arena at the former El Caballo Blanco will echo to the clattering hooves of a new generation of Andalusian stallions from next year, as the resort's new owners embark on a multi-million dollar upgrade.

CBH chief executive Imre Mencshelyi is getting in touch with his feminine side in the name of charity.

The shift away from a fly-in, fly-out work culture to a more stable residential workforce is forcing some mining companies, and the state government, to re-evaluate their commitment to infrastructure developments in the regional areas that play home to th

In a climate where the state's microbrewery stocks are surging ahead and consolidating across Perth, it is worth noting that the Western Australia's most isolated brewery is quietly and efficiently going about its work.

BankWest's plan to move its head office out of the iconic St Georges Terrace tower, and the subsequent decision by the half-owners to sell their share, have fuelled speculation about the building's future.

Julie Bishop has had a dream run since she arrived in Perth from Adelaide as a junior lawyer, just in time to benefit from the mounting work arising from that costly ongoing political and legalistic imbroglio called WA Inc.