An Access Economics report has concluded that the speed at which competition comes into generation is the key to the success of a reformed electricity market in WA and hence a linchpin for securing investment projects.
NEW legislation introduced by the Federal Parliament in 2001, which came into force on July 1, has placed greater demands on businesses embarking on research and development.
COMPANY directors are usually the first to feel the wrath of shareholders and other stake-holders when the chips are down, but many board members feel they are being given a rawdeal.
AUSTRALIAN superannuation fund trustees may be generally more comfortable using large managers with a strong brand name to manage their fund’s investments, but it appears they have lost out financially by adopting such a strategy.
WHEN Ian Macfarlane sits down with his Reserve Bank colleagues on August 5 to set interest rate policy it will be one of the bigger calls of his illustrious career.
WHEN Ian Macfarlane sits down with his Reserve Bank colleagues on August 5 to set interest rate policy it will be one of the bigger calls of his illustrious career.
Nine months after the terrorist attacks that shook the world, several Western Australians working in the US share their thoughts on the impact of those events.
TIMING, they say, is everything.Lisa Johnston knows that. She was head hunted from her London-based recruitment position to join Michael Page International in New York early last year.
WITH just five months in New York under his belt, former army officer and Duntroon graduate Stirling Fielding has already found a big difference in the way he works as a senior associate in the US treasury division of Lehman Bros.
AS the US equities market convulses from the shock news of company collapses and massive reporting breaches, few people are as close to the action as former Perth accountant Tim Andrew.
DAVID DeLoub made a three-year commitment to New York when he decided to accept an internal offer from Alcoa to join the company’s core corporate finance and financial risk management team.
THE abundance of women, broader employment choices of younger people and the emergence of a service-orientated society are driving the demand for part-time work.
THE abundance of women, broader employment choices of younger people and the emergence of a service-orientated society are driving the demand for part-time work.
SECTORS of the building industry are concerned that a proposed restructure of the Building and Construction Industry Fund will give unions such as the Construction Forestry Mining and Energy Union too much power.
THERE has been plenty of action in the IT world on St Georges Terrace, with one group setting up shop on the street and another shifting away from Perth’s business boulevard.