The impact of the terror attacks on tourists in Bali has shaken the world and had a big impact on some of WA’s businesses. Mark Pownall and Gary Kleyn report.
AUSTRALIA’S $8.6 billion grain industry will move onto an electronic trading platform by April 2003 if the plans of a group of Queensland businessmen and politicians come to fruition.
BUSINESS is the big winner from a wide-ranging Electricity Reform Task Force report that recommended the carving up of Western Power into four new State-owned bodies.
WESTERN Power is evaluating its broadband supplier options for the management of its substations.A Western Power spokesman said the existing PAPL service provided by Telstra would cease shortly.“The link is very important to the entire network.
WHILE Saturday’s bombing of a Bali nightclub has made a lot of Australians rethink safety issues, security companies are not expecting a huge spike in demand for their services.
AS an area that has been responsible for Australia’s largest export success, the Burrup Peninsular is viewed as a valuable national asset.This week, however, it has become apparent the area also is geographically vulnerable to terrorism.
WA’S listed brokers have reported varied fortunes in recent weeks, furthering exposing differences in their views on how to survive the twin peril of prolonged uncertainty in markets and increased costs.
SCHOOLS where cricket and footie are played generally have a first and a second 11 and 18.WA’s present parliamentary arrangements have something similar – a first 14 and a second half dozen.The former is the 14-strong Gallop -led cabinet.
NEW schedules involving jet aircraft flights to Karratha connecting with smaller aircraft to open up WA’s north-west could be on the agenda for Skywest under new CEO Scott Henderson.
DRILL testing has commenced in one of Australia’s most hotly contested nickel sulphide frontiers, the West Musgrave region 1,300 kilometres north-east of Perth.
ABOUT 74 kilometres east of Payne’s Find its not the wildflowers that are the major attraction, with junior gold explorer Oroya Mining expecting a second resource upgrade this month for its Mount Gibson gold project.
EXPERIENCE and responsibility across a range of industry sectors flag Kirsty Watkins as a prime candidate for the 2003 WA Business News 40under40 Awards.
The energy efficiency of co-generation is matched by its environmental performance. Greenhouse gas emissions will be up to one-third lower than the most efficient gas combined cycle plants.
FOR someone whose work involves so many secrets, former financial journalist turned self-styled financial intelligence operative John McGlue is not one to hide in the shadows.
IT’S tax time again and there are only two weeks left to lodge your income tax return. If you haven’t done it yet, set aside some time before October 31 or you could be faced with a failure to lodge penalty of up to $550.
WITH the dot.com boom a fast-receding memory, electronic marketing is starting to become top of mind again as companies that invested heavily in second and third generation Internet technology try to recoup a return on that investment.
A UNIVERSITY of WA professor’s biography of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been a surprise hit.And publishers Allen Lane/Penguin have already commissioned a follow-up work.
SPEED is the primary attraction of broadband services to the business community. ADSL, ISDN and cable allow subscribers to move large amounts of data in a fraction of the time required by analogue dial-up connections.