LOCAL media reacted swiftly to last week’s terrorist attacks in the US with normal programming interrupted on both radio and television to relay the first horrifying details.
JUST about everything to do with WA’s wildflower season is big. From the area across which the buds bloom to the 12,000 or so different species – it’s an enormous spectacle that attracts increasingly large numbers of tourists.
PLANS for an underground arcade linking St Martin’s Arcade and the David Jones food hall have been shelved after the City of Perth and landowner St Martin’s Centre both withdrew support for the concept.
EACH year, Western Australians waste millions of dollars cooling and heating Tuscan villas, English manor and Swiss chalet-style houses totally unsuited to the State’s climate.
Three of Wesfarmers’ 11 directors will retire in November at the company’s annual general meeting.Two of the directors, Kevin Hogan and John Paterson, have been board members since 1984 and the third, David Nuttall, has been a member for 10 years.
ALF Lay, project director for the East Perth redevelopment project since March this year, has been appointed project director for the Northbridge Project also.
MAYA Indian Restaurant and Windows took out major honours at the annual Gold Plate Awards on Monday night, with both winning the Prix D’Honneur Award for consistent high performance and awards success.
SHOCKED by the double whammy of the destruction in New York and that of Australian icon, Ansett, in the past week, fund managers and investors have been quick to respond.
NOBODY can accurately predict the effect on financial markets of the attacks on the World Trade Centre. None of us has lived through an attack of terrorism of this magnitude.
THE collapse of the Corrections Corporation Staff Superannuation Fund (CCA) stemmed mainly from the forced sale of one major asset, a new report has found.
THE world’s financial capital of Manhattan has been devastated, with the brightest and the bravest among the slain. It remains to be seen how deep a wound the terrorists have inflicted on the US economy and how long it will take to heal.
WITH the rhetoric of a patriotic rise in share prices on the US markets after the terrorist attacks, and the longest closure of the Dow Jones since World War 1, the markets resumed to sustained orderly selling.
SCENES reminiscent of a Hollywood disaster movie greeted US citizens as they awoke on Tuesday morning. Terrorists flew four hijacked planes into the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon in Washington.
THE presence of a newcomer to WA’s port services industry has raised new tensions on the nation’s waterfronts, this time among the pilots who guide ships into harbour.
FOR the second week running Business News brings you a new section.After whetting your appetite with, Gusto, our new look food and wine pages we have returned to more staple fare this week with a new guide to the underbelly of corporate WA.
AN exhibition of David Larwill’s work at Greenhill Galleries in Perth has attracted interest from around the country, as nervous investors turn their backs on the share market in favour of art.
THE Australian Gas Association will close its Perth office at the end of the month after deciding it can best service its members with a focus on downstream issues, mainly centred in eastern Australia.
AS the toll from the corporate pile-up mounts, Australia’s chief financial regulator has been prompted to farm out its work around the nation, leaving the high profile One.Tel investigation in the hands of Perth-based Stephen Howell.
THE drama surrounding Ansett Airlines is something that should have been predictible.Australia has a poor record of sustaining more than two airlines servicing the national market.Remember the fiascos of Compass I and II.
WA company Amadeus Petroleum NL, through its 100 per cent owned subsidiary Virtual Control Systems Ltd, is helping remote indigenous communities through a new infrastructure support concept to ensure continuous power for outback towns
BEING part of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games has paid off for a number of WA companies.At least eight WA companies were involved with the Games in some form.