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FOR anyone thinking of making a tax-effective investment during the final weeks of this financial year, a review of the collapse of Tuart Resources should prove a timely eye opener.

ASCENT Capital Pty Ltd has developed a specialisation in salvaging the remnants of failed companies and the proposal that will be put to Tuart Resources shareholders is just the latest in a series of similar moves.

WORK has begun on the first high-rise building to be constructed in 40 years in the Sir James Mitchell Park foreshore area in South Perth.

SECURITY related businesses are facing a big jump in fees, with charges doubling for some forms of licences in yet another apparent State Government revenue grab.

THIS week I received an interesting note that started me thinking. The notion it contained was generally against compulsory superannuation.

MARK Beyer’s article on the Perth Parking Levy (BN June 5) has the Government “playing down” suggestions that it was considering extending the levy  to regional shopping centres.

THE long lead-up to this week’s political bloodletting in Labor’s Federal Caucus room was a Godsend for State Liberal leader Colin Barnett.

ALAN Green jokes about how he is going to improve his golf handicap after June 30, the date he steps down from his management position at EG Green & Sons, the company behind Harvey Beef and Western Australia’s dominant force in meat processing.

WITH gold prices remaining at historical highs, Gleneagle Gold Limited, a new company led by chairman Tony Brennan and managing director Ian Prentice, is hopeful of raising $5 million through the issue of 25 million, 20 cent shares.

HOSPITALITY industry stalwart Warren Mead has acquired West Perth restaurant Savoia from flamboyant restaurateur Davide Bianchi. WA Business News understands that Mr Mead has purchased the business for $600,000.

The Film and Television Institute is part of the reason WA is being recognised as a place brimming with film production specialists. Julie-anne Sprague investigates.

ARMED with a relatively small commercial TV budget but a need to boost unprompted brand awareness StateWest Credit Society and JMG Marketing have embarked on an eye-catching advertising campaign.

MJB&B Advertising and Marketing hopes to have its public relations spin-off Livewire Communications running as a self-sufficient business within 18 months.

CONSOLIDATED Business Media managing director John Webb has denied that his company’s two-year old glossy Perth Woman has been sold.

ACCORDING to a recent contact centre management survey senior managers do not always understand the important role contact centres play in building a brand and differentiating an organisation.

In the third of a six-part series, Gary Kleyn considers non-monetary means of attracting and keeping quality staff.

WESTERN Australia’s unemployment rate is once again the lowest in the country, with figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showing a fall during the past month.

PERTH-based recruitment and labour hire specialist CPE Group is bedding down its recent acquisition of the Queensland operations of rival, Benchmark Recruitment.

END of financial year time translates into longer and unpaid hours for most Australian employees.

Name Garry Flanagan Title Commercial Analysis Coordinator Company ChevronTexaco   Location: Houston Texas

In the first of a three-part series on computer hardware, Alison Birrane talks to Western Australia-based suppliers in the computer hardware market.

The new BOCS Ticketing web site will be launched next month and will finalise two years of redevelopment work to the State-owned agency.

that Australia has the second highest uptake of e-banking in the Asia Pacific region.

A RECENT report published by Gartner predicts modest growth globally in the personal computer (PC) market, with global economic uncertainty likely to delay a strong recovery in the next couple of year

WEBEX Communications Inc. and Yahoo! Inc. have joined forces to integrate video conferencing with instant messaging, allowing users to hold online meetings and share files.Subscribers to Yahoo!

A VERY bright spotlight has shone on the lobbying activities of former Labor Premier Brian Burke over the past six months. Along with business partner and former State Government Minister Julian Grill (who also acts on his own for some clients) Mr Burke

WHO provides the strategic direction and tactical guidance for WA’s politicians? Political advisers, bureaucrats and organisational allies such as the union movement have a strong influence.

THE question of who ranks as the most powerful person in State politics is a two-horse race.

THE top political advisers are largely aligned with the most influential people in State politics. In Premier Geoff Gallop’s office the key people are chief of staff Sean Walsh and senior media adviser Kieran Murphy.

WITH the Coalition holding power in Canberra and hot favourites to win the next election, the key figures in WA are in the Liberal Party. The two people who currently wield most influence in the party are Senators Chris Ellison and Ian Campbell.

UNDERTREASURER John Langoulant stands head and shoulders above other public servants. His influence derives in part from simply being head of Treasury and Finance – the man who controls the purse strings.

WESFARMERS managing director Michael Chaney is clearly the most influential business executive in Western Australia. His influence does not derive simply from running the State’s biggest company.