The Pastoralists and Graziers Association of WA has appointed Jurien Bay businessman Craig Underwood as chairman of the group’s private property rights committee, and John Hyde as vice-chair.
The WA Government has moved to appoint a steering committee to accelerate planning and approvals for new port facilities in Fremantle Port's outer harbour.
The Department of Conservation and Land Management is calling for expressions of interest for membership of an advisory committee on the establishment of a marine conservation reserve in the Geographe
Automated ticketing company ERG will shortly hold meetings of note holders and shareholders to seek approval for a major restructuring. Mark Beyer takes a closer look.
A NUMBER of advertising firms and at least one non-advertising company are lining up to try and knock incumbent Western Australian Government master media contract holder Marketforce off its perch.
THE WA Industrial Relations Commission registered just three Employee-Employer Agreements in six months, casting doubt over the State Government’s much vaunted answer to the workplace agreements it abolished last year.
WHILE a few dozen additional tourists may not raise the temperature of the local tourism scene, the largest trade mission in WA for 50 years is making a mark in one industry this week.
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THE recent setback for the development of the Burrup – with delays to the Canadian-based company Methanex’s plans to build a methanol plant – shows how fragile investment in major projects can be in a global economy.
YOUR editorial of February 6 noted that it was “time to clean up the mess” in WA. Your commentary stated that: “We simply haven’t got the economies of scale to efficiently deal with this issue”.
THE issue of Western Australia’s freshwater needs persistently rates highly in party political and other local polling.
Press reports showing quarter-full dams and constant chatter about the so-called greenhouse effect have had their impact.
THE steady number of prospectuses receiving stop orders from the Australian Securities and Investment Commission has prompted the regulator into a focused education campaign.
ON 16th January, WA Business News published an article regarding Ningaloo Reef and Australian Wildlife Conservancy entitled “Wedged on the Reef”.AWC and its directors, Martin Copley and Barry Wilson,
The wheeling and dealing over the future of Hartleys has highlighted the influential network of former Hartleys people in prominent roles around Perth. Mark Beyer reports.
THE annual bloodstock yearling sales have surpassed expectations following the return of a strong contingent of buyers from the eastern States, Malaysia and Singapore.
COMMERCIAL agent Knight Frank will be asked by the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia to explain its controversial actions relating to a call for expressions of interest to house tenant client BHP-Billiton’s operations.
THE State’s leading resources lobby group and some air charter services sought urgent meetings with the Government last week after it signalled a desire to convert resource industry fly-in fly-out charter services to regular passenger transport flights.
DEVELOPING a business from a backyard operation into a multi-million dollar international success is about good financial, resource, and people management, according to Austal founding executive chair
