AS it has been two months since Labor's factional chiefs moved to replace Simon Crean as leader, it's worth asking whether the change has significantly altered Australia's political landscape.
AN Australian Bureau of Statistics report on Western Australian Statistical Indicators has forecast continuing strength in the housing sector and revealed the under
Amid the continuing heritage debate, recently appointed Heritage Council chairperson Patric de Villiers talks to Tracey Cook and outlines his position on the contro
INDUSTRY groups have launched an advertising first for the North-West town of Broome aimed at developing a more cohesive brand identity for the popular tourist destination.
THE participants in the WA Business News innovation forum agree that Western Australia's universities need to drive commercial outcomes from their basic research.
A LACK of managerial and business skill has been identified as one of the major problems facing innovators who want to commercialise their research breakthrough.
MEETING with a group of venture capitalists is a great way to learn about some of the exciting and innovative businesses emerging from Western Australia.
PERTH-BASED company FreeCargo has crafted software developed by academics at the University of Amsterdam into an online freight ordering system that provides real benefits to its users and revenue to the company.
DIGITAL content management systems developed by Bentley-based DCN (formerly Data-Cast.Net) have caught the attention of global airline industry heavyweight Water-mark.
STRUCTURAL Monitoring Systems provides a classic example of a backyard inventor devising a breakthrough technology that is now being marketed around the world.
PARTICIPANTS in the WA Business News innovation forum nominated nanotechnology and aquaculture as two sectors with enormous potential for Western Australia.
THE founders of Gage Roads Brewing Co expect to produce their first batch of beer by September this year following the recent completion of a $2.5 million capital raising.
COLLTECH Australia Limited will close its $4.5 million IPO this Friday, January 23, and, if all goes to plan, will produce collagen from sheep by the end of the year.
PERTH law firm Steinepreis Paganin worked on more Initial Public Offerings last year than any other law firm in the country, a national survey has found.
LOCAL software developer CAZ Software has beaten international competition to win a $A1 million contract to supply an integrated school management system in Hong Kong.
WHILE the hairdressing industry may not have an obvious organic association with information technology, one East Perth-based salon has implemented an IT system it hopes will provide a point of difference.
Dozens of Western Australian small business owners have completed Curtin Business School's growth program. Mark Beyer spoke to two graduates about the lessons they have learned.
WHEN Kerbing West director Brian Kennewell enrolled in Curtin Business School's growth program, he had more than 20 years of business success behind him.
WESTERN Australia's peak property industry group, the Real Estate Institute of WA, expects the State's real estate market to continue its solid growth throughout 2004 in response to WA's strengthening economy.
PERTH'S universities are capitalising on their sizeable land holdings in an effort to remain viable in the increasingly competitive world of tertiary eduction.
A NEW-LOOK e'cucina will open later this month featuring more street exposure that is hoped will boost night and weekend trade, according to owner Steve Smith.
