RECENT comments by Justice Madgwick in the Federal Court have suggested that employers have a right to require employees to undergo medical examinations, even where there is no express contractual right in the employment contract.
AUSTRALIANS like investing in property and the rapid growth of investment in property syndicates has allowed small investors a piece of the top end of town.
David Pike returns to an old favourite this week, a South West winery that has long set the standard for top quality food in the State’s premier wine-growing region.WHAT to do on a warm afternoon in the middle of autumn.
The Jack Mann Memorial Medal recognises outstanding achievement among the State’s winemakers, and this year’s winner is a worthy recipient of the Wine Press Club of WA’s top gong, as David Pike reports.
WITH June 30 approaching, many investors start to focus on ways of managing their looming tax bill.This short-term imperative is often seen to be at odds with the longer-term goals of building wealth or generating higher investment income.
RECENT Reserve Bank statistics confirm that the margin lending industry continues to experience substantial growth, with loans outstanding as at March 2002, having almost doubled in the past three years to more than $9 billion.
FUND managers should warn their members early that this year would most likely return negative growth. This should ward off any knee-jerk reaction from unhappy members, according to head of investment research at fund researcher InTech, Dennis Sams.
THE Australian dollar batted her eyelashes and flirted with the greenback at US56 cents last week. But the excitement was too much, and the little lady fainted.
THE tide appears to be turning for WA with more multinational organisations preferring to base major branch offices here and a greater number of small companies prepared to look eastwards to grow their businesses.
PHILLIPS Petroleum’s consolidation of its Perth staff into a new West Perth building at the end of the year highlights Perth’s attraction as a major Australian oil and gas service centre.
THE world congratulated East Timor this week when, after a history of colonial rule and foreign occupation, it celebrated its status as the world’s newest nation under the leadership of head of state Xanana Gusmao.
BLUEWAVE Seafood is on the hunt for a new chief executive officer following the departure of Glen Bosman after six years at the lobster processor’s helm.
HOWARD Park Wines has teamed up with WA designer Claire Metcalf to produce the second phase of its American promotions campaign.The winery launched a longboard surfboard early last year to promote its Madfish label overseas.
A PLAN to sell off the bungalows that form part of the Cable Beach Club Resort will provide sun lovers from all over Australia with the opportunity to escape the winter blues.
NEXT month, as Premier Geoffrey Gallop (pictured right) celebrates 500 days as WA leader, he will headline the second in WA Business News’ series on Succession and Success.
TO understand some of parliament’s less salubrious clandestine deals and antics it’s essential to appreciate that most of its 91 members aren’t there to be legislators, as elected.
BUSINESS appears to have had a win with the WA Government announcing that it will not continue with its controversial plan to drag employee-like contractors into the payroll tax net.
WA will still lose out to Queensland in the heavy vehicle stakes, even though the WA Government has cut stamp duty on truck registrations from 5 per cent to 3 per cent.
THE railway access dispute between BHP Billiton and Hancock Prospecting Pty Ltd to be heard in the Supreme Court in July will be watched closely by the mining industry, the State Government and private rail operators.
