DEVELOPERS have been advised to engage in negotiations over Aboriginal heritage issues at an early stage in the development process to avoid the possibility of construction delays or prosecution.
Western Australia's olive oil producers have been spending big on harvesting, processing and branding to prepare for WA's first big olive harvest. Mark Beyer and Julie-anne Sprague report.
LOCAL e-learning specialist Westinfo Services has won an award for the second year running at the Thomson NETg annual Channel Partner Conference in Cannes, France.
THE Federal Budget contained some interesting news for those readers, and there are a lot of you, who own investment properties – and my call is to watch out.
WITH many of Western Australia's olive oil producers expecting yields between three and eight times those of previous harvests, brand building and distribution strategies have assumed even greater importance than usual.
ON the back of major developments in the resources and property sectors, and a surging State economy that's driving infrastructure projects, community consultants in Western Australia have been enjoying an increased demand for their services.
MAJOR projects based on heavy industry have always proved a sticking point within local communities, particularly when they are located in a sensitive environment.
THE growing number of communities forming action groups and taking their anger over coastal development to the streets may cause some to question the value of community consultation.
THE WA Parliamentary Accounts Committee will head to Broome this week as it continues its examination of developer contributions to infrastructure costs associated with land development.
CLAREMONT'S Bay View Terrace and Rokeby Road in Subiaco are Perth's contribution to a new list of the 20 most expensive suburban shopping strips in Australia in which to operate.
CAPITAL works projects announced in the State Budget are
expected to sustain the strong activity shown in the commercial building sector
over the past year.
WHILE the recent radio ratings survey provided a win for 6PR talkback morning host Paul Murray, ABC 720 says it remains Perth's number one talkback station.
WESTERN Australia's web development industry is reaping the benefits of larger IT spends off the back of growing positive sentiment in the State's ICT sector.
WESTERN Australia's hard rock exploration and mining sector has expressed deep disappointment at what some are calling a lack of long-term vision by the Federal Government in its 2004-05 budget.
LAST month's State Government decision to abandon plans to sink the rail network was a blow to many proponents of increased residential development in Northbridge.
SWAN Brewery's move in 1978 from the city to Canning Vale marked a major shift in the company's approach to brewing after almost 120 years at the site on Mounts Bay Road and in Spring Street.
MODERN building design, landscaped gardens, and a State Swim centre are not features usually associated with an industrial business area, but Canning Vale Business Park has them all.
THERE'S a touch of irony in the fact that Robert Halliday has worked as CEO of Market City since 1999, not so much for his role but rather the location.
THE success of the Canning Vale development over the past three decades has encouraged several other local councils to look at similar proposals for their area, among them Hope Valley/Wattelup.
THE acquisition by Grand Cinemas last month of Greater Union's Joondalup and Whitfords cinema complexes, and the completion of its Armadale cinema later this year, positions the independent cinema group as a forerunner in hard-top cinema ownership in WA.
One of WA's longest serving CEOs, Terry Budge's seven-year tenure at BankWest largely overlapped the bank's time as a listed company and was constantly overshadowed by takeover talk. Mark Pownall talks to the outgoing group managing director.
IT'S budget time again, and this year it's the rare double – two electioneering budgets for the long-suffering citizens of Western Australia to analyse.
COMPETITION is likely to intensify within the voice services sector in the latter half of this year as several players begin to drive the battle into the residential Voice over Internet Protocol market space (VoIP).
