WA may have escaped the explosion in new building as felt in New South Wales or Victoria, but economic forecaster BIS Shrapnel has warned investors that WA housing is heading for a sharp decline in the next year.
THE Australian Prudential Regulation Authority used the release of its annual report last week to highlight the stricter regime it is imposing on financial institutions.
Businesses will be forced to wait until at least early next year before the WA Government puts in place legislative changes to improve competition and help reduce prices in the State’s electricity market.
THE Electricity Reform Task Force’s plan to create separate State Generation and State Retail electricity entities could be doomed to failure, according to the public version of a report commissioned by WA Treasury and Western Power.
IT is often said that times of great change can make for strange bedfellows, and the proposed changes to WA’s electricity market have proved no exception.
GARDEN City Shopping Centre is now home to two Queensland-based surf chains after the complex’s management favoured an interstate retailer ahead of a WA chain to the fill the vacancy left by the failure of Millers Surf.
GETTING the advertisers’ message heard will be a big job for commercial radio newcomer Nova 93.7, with creative solutions considered the key to cutting through the clatter.
THE proposed break-up of Western Power has been welcomed by the business community – with the potential for big savings for customers and the opportunity to grab market share for energy players.
WITH Seniors Week coming up next week, we thought it apt to examine some of the issues involving our ageing population.There is no doubt that this demographic shift will continue to impact on us all, as it has for the past five decades.
THE structure of the Griffin group, in particular Griffin Coal and Griffin Energy, has undergone significant change since the May announcements of the group’s ambitious plans for Collie.
THERE’S a ticklish problem currently before the upper house.Several months ago the Government announced the appointment of a new electoral commissioner.
WITH the rancour of his controversial removal from the board of Skywest behind him, Miles Cattle is hoping to use his 10 per cent share-holding in the airline to ensure its future is sound.
With the baby boomers getting older and dwindling numbers of younger workers to replace them, there has been a sudden interest in the ageing of Australia’s population.
THE WA Government is under renewed pressure to foster a competitive resource environment after recent slides in global commodity prices have pulled the sector back a peg.
PERTH’S own web-based real estate services company, aussiehome.com, won both the most innovative IT business award and the coveted people’s choice award at the recent annual Asia-Pacific ICT Awards.
IF the annual Asia-Pacific ICT (Information Communication & Technology) Awards are anything to go by, our local companies are right up there with the best in the world.
THE 2002 Australian Computer Crime and Security Survey published earlier this year found that the theft of data due to computer security compromise was a significant cause of financial loss in Australian organisations.
WHILE the corporatisation of the childcare sector shows no signs of slowing, industry observers warn that the underlying property assets are closely aligned to the performance of the individual businesses.
PRODUCT and services provider to the petroleum and energy industries, Halliburton Energy Services, is delivering an initiative that has little to do with drill bits and filters.
IMAGINE exposing your company to a university’s entire talent pool, from accounting departments to engineering departments to organisational and labour studies.
CONGRATULATIONS. You’ve won the war for talent and secured a great new hire to work in your management team. They show all the promise that you’ve been hoping for, and they seem like a self-starter.
SUBMISSIONS from suburban newspaper proprietors alleging that the Community Newspaper Group is waging a predatory pricing campaign against them are being filed with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.