MANY of us will remember seeing a baffled Health Minister Bob Kucera recently facing TV cameras and attempting to explain why his department had bankrolled a publication coaching Perth women on how to be sensual and client-oriented prostitutes.
THE US federal agency responsible for the safety and security of civil aviation, the Transportation Security Administration, will continue to work with Perth-based explosives detect
Asking the right questions can prove the difference between valuable and worthless information, as Noel Dyson discovers in the third of the series on market research.
IN his first major role for five years, Channel Nine newsreader Peter Holland is returning to the stage as a world famous author in Yasmina Reza's The Unexpected Man.
JUST because you build a better mouse-trap doesn't mean customers and investors will start beating a path to your door. Companies need to make sure there is a need for their product and a niche for it in the market.
IT was a post-study trip in the US that inspired Tony van Merwyk to pursue a career in environmental planning law.
Mr van Merwyk completed a masters in international environmental law at the University of San Diego in 1990 and was travelling throughout
THE lawyers who dominated voting in the intellectual property category illustrate two very different aspects of this field of practice.
The top rated lawyer was Freehills partner Tony Joyner, who has a broad commercial law background and moved into the
The team at Fraser's in Kings Park have decided that having one of the city's best views isn't enough ... there's a new look inside too, as Julie-anne Sprague reports.
JUST as former Labor premier Brian Burke vacated the media spotlight over lobbying, his long-time party pal Kim Beazley came into its beam.
State Scene certainly never expected to be re-focusing on Mr Beazley so soon
INDUSTRY speculation has it that the name McCusker is at, or near, the top of the list to head the State Government's proposed Crime and Corruption Commission.
CRIMINAL law runs through the veins of Robert Mazza, who has followed in the footsteps of his late father.
Mr Mazza was articled with his father in the early 1980s and the two worked together for two decades, until Jim Mazza passed away in 1999.
MERGERS and Acquisitions was the most keenly contested category in the Legal Elite 2003 survey.
Six lawyers attracted substantial support from across the industry and, at the end of counting, they were separated by only a handful of nominations.
MARGARET River wine industry pioneer David Hohnen is on the hunt for a chief executive officer to take over the operations of Cape Mentelle Vineyards the company he co-founded in 1970.
THE past year has provided a fresh change for Perth's top property lawyer, KPMG Legal partner Ted Sharp.
After more than 20 years with Freehills and its predecessor Parker & Parker, Mr Sharp chose to pursue new opportunities at a much smaller firm.
IT is good to note that Fisheries Minister Kim Chance is taking a close interest in the rock lobster industry, one of our most successful niche exports.
WITH more than 20 years under his belt at law practice Mallesons Stephen Jaques, Chris Stevenson is going solo.
Considered Western Australia's elite Native Title lawyer, by his peers, Mr Stevenson is planning a move mid-year to the independent bar
MICHAEL Hunt is bemused by his Legal Elite accolade, a little sensitive that it could be just another unwelcome sign of old age.
The ‘number one mining lawyer' tag attaches awkwardly to one not entirely at ease with the general legal clique
SPECIALISING in tax law was a logical move for Robert Sceales.
Mr Sceales has been practising as a lawyer since 1971, originally in his native South Africa but for many years in Australia.
MILLEPEDE International Limited, the local designer and manufacturer of plastic cable fasteners, has increased its stake in international subsidiary firms in a move to cash in on wh
LEE Christensen's professional fate was decided when he was articled to Ron Harmer, the guru of insolvency law, in 1982.
Mr Christensen has never looked back from that point, specialising in
AN attraction to the law might have led Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner Rob Lilburne into the profession but the pressure cooker of the Robe River Iron Ore dispute in the 1980s cemented his place in the industrial relations field.
NETWORKING has proved essential for public relations company The Capital Group, ranked fifth in the WA Business News Book of Lists 2003 list of marketing and market research companies.
