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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.

CURTIN University's first whole-of-university advertising campaign, launched in 2003, has helped to reverse a slide in the number of potential students choosing Curtin as their firs

GERALDTON is on the cusp of benefiting from more than $500 million in investment, rebounding strongly after several years of sluggish activity.

SEATBELT buckles on shopping centre doors and painted on the outside of buildings formed part of Gatecrasher Advertising's media strategy for the Office of Road Safety ‘Restraints'

A SIGNIFICANT number of large mining and oil and gas developments are under way in and around Geraldton as the sector emerges from the shadow of the failed $2 billion Kingstream iron and steel project.

IF it was not for the achievements made by John Driscoll (right) last year Marketforce could have faced some significant hurdles this year, according to Campaign Brief Awards judge

DATA communications and Internet provider Swiftel Limited has announced its intention to merge with privately owned voice services company, people telecom, in a scrip deal worth an estimated $50 million.

The recent collapse of Consolidated Constructions has its share of corporate mystery and intrigue, as Mark Beyer reports.

In the back blocks of Canning Vale, where Perth's urban sprawl gives way to small farm lots, a group of scientists is creating a unique research and development centre.