Dr Ron Brunton has been appointed director of the Australian Broadcasting Association.
Dr Brunton is currently director of Encompass Research Pty Ltd, an organisation involved in anthropological and socio-economic research. He has been a columnist for
The RSPCA has appointed Kelly Oversby public relations coordinator.
Ms Oversby has several years experience working in media liaison and public relations for the State Government and is a former editor for the Community Newspaper group.
pSivida’s UK subsidiary pSiMedica has added to its team, appointing Texan professor Jeffrey Coffer as a collaborator. Professor Coffer’s professional background includes research into semiconductor nanocrystal synthesis, properties and characterization
Leith Wale has been appointed non-executive chairman of Bounty Oil and Gas.
Mr Wale is experienced in corporate funding and finance within the Australian resources sector.
He holds a Bachelor of Science and Masters of Science and is a fellow of the
FPDSavills is continuing to grow its professional services divisions, appointing Mark Foster-Key to the FPDSavills Valuations and Consultancy division as a senior valuer.
Noel Byrne has been appointed chief inspector, construction at Worksafe.
Mr Byrne has been a construction inspector for 14 years. He replaces Frank Keough, who has relocated to South-East Asia.
Integrated mining industry consulting group RSG Global recently appointed Dr Jan de Visser principal consultant, resources.
He has 14 years experience in resource evaluation, geostatistics, due diligence, geological modelling and project management.
Real estate agency Colliers International has appointed Bibiana Tan as project marketing manager.
Ms Tan was formerly director of Eagle Realty Group.
She has been involved in project marketing for over ten years and consulted for most of Perth’s major
The Cancer Support Association, The Princess Margaret Hospital for Children foundation, the Royal Flying Doctor Service, and The Salvation Army, are banking the benefit of BankWest’s $50,000 favourite charity campaign after taking out the top five poll
The Australia Business Arts Foundation’s adviceBank, a free service for arts organisations has gone national with the support of leading business advisory firm, KPMG.
With KPMG as adviceBank’s principal partner, ABAF has extended the pilot from Victoria
FORMER Andersen audit partner Derek Parkin has racked up a couple of firsts since his old firm collapsed.
Of Andersen’s 10 former Perth partners, he is the only one to have added the title of professor to his resume.
IAIN Gerrard and Mike McNulty may have a new name on their business cards but in many respects their working lives have been unaffected by the collapse of Andersen.
CLAIMING ‘enough is enough’ the City of Perth is yet again preparing to have it out with the East Perth Redevelopment Authority over what is turning out to be a land dispute.
KONDININ Group CEO Bill Ryan has proved his worth by pulling together a loan deal from the Grain Growers Association to rescue his organisation from a wind-up petition.
LOCAL water technology company Optum ES may move its proposed wastewater treatment facility to the eastern seaboard after receiving a lucrative offer from the Queensland Government.
WESTERN Australia is clawing its way back up the Cooperative Research Centre funding ladder with a new CRC centre that was originally to be based in Victoria now moving to this State.
THE $100 million collapse of the Pollock group of companies may have been triggered by tax authorities, seeking to recover unpaid GST owed by one of the trading entities.
STEVEN Goh may have just left the room from Sanford Limited’s point of view, but the company’s former CEO is already talking of a new financial services start-up business.
SHIPBUILDING company Austal has launched an innovative solution to one of the main corporate governance issues facing small and mid-cap listed companies.
WESTERN Australian junior oil and gas company Carpathian Resources Limited has made the transition from explorer to producer as the directors move to generate positive cash flow to fund further exploration activity.
DESPITE the gloomy outlook for the Perth hotel sector, which industry pundits say cannot sustain another five star hotel development, Stamford Property Services project manager Anthony Ryce insists th
SARS could cost Western Australian educators tens of millions of dollars and potentially leave a more than $200 million hole in university budgets around Australia as they close campuses and reschedule classes in Asia.
AMID persistent rumours that small local listed oil and gas companies are “at risk” of not being able to continue to trade, Cliff Head junior partners, Voyager Energy and Norwest Energy, have this week denied being in danger.
THE bunfight surrounding VRI Biomedical had just gone off the corporate radar over the Easter break when the sudden implosion of national therapeutic drug giant Pan Pharmaceuticals appeared as a large blip on the screen this week.
CONGRATULATIONS on your recent initiative to host a boardroom lunch to discuss the current state of affairs with WA’s research and development efforts. I found the articles informative, insightf
THE Gallop Government’s guillotining of former premier Brian Burke’s and one-time minister Julian Grill’s lobbying work highlights several interesting inconsistencies.
DESPITE there being no artist and repertoire agents from major labels based in Western Australia, it seems the State’s recording industry is alive and well.