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Peet & Co is heading towards an Australian Stock Exchange float with a $100 million raising.

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DELAYS to the controversial West Kimberley power project look likely to cost the Western Australian Government at least $16 million.

PROPERTY development is moving into the realm of mum and dad investors with a joint venture between two BGC subsidiaries, Impressions the Homebuilder and J-Corp, pitching its serv

LAST week's introduction of full contestability in the retail gas market arrived with more of a muted whimper than any sort of big bang.

AN expert in intellectual property rights has expressed concern at the lack of reaction from within the building industry after a court case involving Seacrest Homes and Hillcrest

COMMERCIAL litigation is a term falling out of favour with many lawyers, who prefer the more diplomatic term ‘dispute resolution'.

IT may only have been the second day of trade at new Shenton Park restaurant Galileo Buona Cucina, but co-owner Una Hosgood was run off her feet when she met Gusto for an interview last week.

FOR the second year running, Perth's corporate lawyers provided a closely run contest in WA Business News' Legal Elite survey.

VASSE Felix will re-open its cellar door on June 24 after undergoing renovations to the original cellar.

IN the early 1980s, when Jon Carson was a young solicitor, he started working on the financing and construction of the Dampier to Bunbury Natural Gas Pipeline.

STATE Scene first raised the prospect of an upper house Liberal MP resigning from his party, and paving the way for the re-introduction and successful passage of Attorney-General Jim McGinty's one-vote-one-value draft legislation through that chamber, on

TONY van Merwyk is passionate about his work.

RICHARD Norton and Chris Smailes are just a few weeks away from celebrating the 10th anniversary of their boutique law firm Nortorn & Smailes.

APART from the Legal Elite scattered across these pages, WA Business News would like to acknowledge another winner.

A RUNNER-UP in last year's WA Business News Legal Elite survey, Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner John Naughton has gone one better in 2004, ranking as the top banking and finance lawyer in Perth.

IT is fascinating to see our new economic regulator Lyndon Rowe stick up for former independent gas pipelines access regulator Ken Michael's determination regarding pricing arrangements for the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline.

SIMON Lodge says securing the position of western region advertising manager at Bunnings was a matter of good timing.

THERE are times when a window of opportunity appears only once in a generation.

INFORMATION technology incubator Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) may soon be without Federal Government funding as Canberra prepares to wind down the Building on IT Strengths (BITS) incubator program.

INDONESIA possesses the potential to formulate a strengthened trading alliance with Australia in the near future, a factor that could be

Restaurant and cafe ‘pioneers' Dario and Lina Cipollini are taking a little time off after the sale of Bravo's. But only a little time, as Julie-anne Sprague reports

WITH greater demand for broadband and an increasingly technology savvy consumer base, the availability, cost, type and quality of broadband is being brought into question.

A NEW label launched in Margaret River and Perth recently is set to challenge traditional thinking in the wine industry.

WHILE broadband comes in a range of guises, it is already an essential service for many business and residential consumers.

JOHN Howard has wined and dined on his occasionally used nickname, ‘Honest John'.

AUSTRALIAN Telecommunications Users Group national director Walter Green said there had been a significant cost reduction in the delivery of fibre to homes in the first half of last year.

A PRODUCTIVITY Commission Report released in 1999 indicated that Australians were paying too much for telecommunications services compared with OECD standards.

TECHNOLOGY and Industry Advisory Council spokesman Rob Meecham told those at the WA Business News luncheon that access to existing telecommunications infrastructure already in the ground remained problematic as it was too costly for businesses to access.

WITHOUT world class, affordable telecommunications infrastructure the distance between an already remote Western Australia and the rest of the world is even greater.

MOST of the world's developed economies operate with a single incumbent ruling the telecommunications market.

A UDIA study tour in the US will this week visit Seaside, Florida, which is considered not only to be a model for new urban planning, dubbed ‘new urbanism', but was also the setting for Hollywood film, The Truman Show.