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VAL Morgan may not think cinema slide advertising is a profitable venture in Western Australia, but a former senior executive Tony Brooks believes there is a strong market for the 15-second still ads.

A PHOTOGRAPHY feature commemorating the Bali bombings for Melbourne's The Age newspaper has earned Perth photographer Tony McDonough a WA photography award.

NO matter what anyone says about young people today or the litigious nature of our society, every now and then something turns all that sour stuff on its head.

REGULAR State Scene readers will know that new Federal Labor leader Mark Latham was treated sympathetically rather than circumspectly in this column on becoming leader.

A REVIEW of the Australian Stock Exchange's corporate governance guidelines has recommended changes to assist smaller listed companies.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Alexander Downer was in Perth last week for talks with local business and economic groups about the benefits of free trade.

Three quarters of listed Western Australian companies have changed their name over the years. Matthew Hooper and Mark Beyer have delved into the archives to review the changed identities of listed stocks.

APOLLO Gold Mining is an up-and-coming mining company while Clearview Capital is a ‘shell company' with no activities, so at first glance they don't seem to have much in common.

STATE Government moves to implement a Coastal Planning and Coordination Council to determine appropriate development along the coast has received a mixed reaction from local government authorities.

WOODSIDE Energy Ltd and the Department of Foreign Affairs are in discussions to win approval from the East Timorese Government for the development of large natural gas reserves in the Timor Sea.

WHILE serial name changers tend to be small companies, some of Western Australia's biggest blue chip companies have also changed their names.

A HANDFUL of well-known deal makers, including Farooq Khan, Reg Gillard and Tony Trevisan, cropped up with some regularity in WA Business News' review of serial name changers.

WHEN companies change their name, investors usually just see the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

LONG-TIME State Scene readers may recall a March 2001 column highlighting research by Dr Bob Catley, then of New Zealand's Dunedin-based Otago University.

I WAS quite staggered this week to find that Alinta's general manager of corporate communications David Franklyn had quit over his former employer's $1.69 billion bid to buy the Australian and New Zealand assets of Duke Energy.

WESTERN Australia has the highest proportion of tech-savvy farmers in the nation, according to the latest statistics from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

THE 2004 membership campaigns of Western Australia's two AFL clubs are less about the football and more about the fans.

DALE Alcock Homes has returned to mainstream advertising ahead of an expected slowdown in the housing market in six months' time.

CAMBRIDGE Media has merged its print division with Optima Press in a move designed to propel the Leederville-based publisher into a new business phase.

He may have a familiar family name but John Mead's determined to do things his way, from an understated vibe to fur on the walls, as Julie-anne Sprague discovered.

CONCERNS about the fire safety standards in some Perth nightclubs and other high-risk public buildings have prompted the City of Perth to consider establishing a risk management strategy to ensure building owners comply with current standards in the Build

IT'S finally happening, and it's happening much earlier than expected. But in politics nothing's lost by getting things out of the way sooner rather than later.

WESTERN Australian-based multi-platform real estate agency Asset Domain has merged with Dempsey Real Estate to create an integrated real estate company specialising in the top-end property market.

IT'S easy when you spend a short time away from Perth to find the grass is greener elsewhere, especially when you are on holidays.

AFTER a decade of stagnation the industrial property market is experiencing a strong upturn and rental growth is tipped to be on the horizon.

THE City of Perth has launched a program of financial incentives to encourage conservation of heritage places.

LONG overlooked by local investors, the seaside town of Geraldton is attracting the attention of investors around Australia.

salaries in Western Australia's information technology sector are increasing on the back of an industry turnaround.

LESS than 15 per cent of information technology university graduates are women, according to figures from the tertiary education sector.

WESTERN Australian ICT organisations, in conjunction with the State Government, are planning a joint study into the needs of ICT employers with regards to graduates and employee tra

Agency of the year – The Brand Agency FOUR significant achievements by The Brand Agency last year catapulted the business ahead of its competitors, according to The Brand Agency chairman Ken James.

HIGH-PROFILE television ads for Go for 2 & 5, Find 30, and Quit were just some of the media and marketing activities undertaken by the Department of Health during 2003.