Adam Orlando

THE modest rise in the jobless rate relative to previous downturns in the labour market reflects the growing number of local companies that are retaining workers they fought hard to recruit during the boom.

The labour force paradigm has shifted in a post-global financial crisis environment.

NO doubt many positive outcomes will emerge from the pain of global economic downturn, but one that’s immediately obvious is the opportunity it has provided smaller employers to implement efficiency measures, redevelop management structures and refo

JUSTINE Barsley struggled to find any suitable markets for her children’s clothing range when she arrived in Perth from Sydney in 2006.

THE Nulsen Haven Association has a 56-year history of supporting people with intellectual disabilities and acquired brain injuries in Western Australia.

THE federal government will strengthen the Franchising Code of Conduct and the unconscionable conduct provisions of the Trade Practices Act to better protect small businesses from anti-competitive behaviour by more powerful businesses.

Benny’s Bar & Café is a unique business on South Terrace. Adam Orlando reports.

Success-based The Gate Bar & Bistro has been named the Australian Hotels Association (WA) pub of the year.

THE Fremantle-based WA Army Museum Foundation plans to raise a total of $2.5 million to develop four new, modern galleries within the historic museum.

BOTH sides of the workplace safety spectrum were in evidence this week, with some Perth businesses recognised at the 2009 Work Safety Awards WA, while others received large fines for unsafe work practices.

REGULAR customer Murray strolls into Il Vero Gusto in Northbridge and eyes owner Joe Pisano sipping an espresso talking to this reporter in a corner booth near the till.

WINNING the 'best of the best' category at the recent Furnishing Industry Association of Australia Awards was a culmination of more than 20 years’ hard work for Jahroc Furniture founder Gary Bennett and business partner David Paris.

PTTEP Australasia says it will wait for expert assessment on damages over its Timor Sea oil leak saga, which is estimated to have cost the company more than $170 million, before deciding on whether it will resume production in the future.

$30bn wiped in market reality check; Chevron prepares more Gorgon contracts; Banks to gouge bigger profits; Myer's price settles low; Inflation fuels wage demands

Approval for the $43 billion Gorgon gas fields coupled with Western Australia's $116 billion suite of other definite investment projects is more than double that of any other state, according to leading forecaster Access Economics.

Rio and Chinalco look to heal rift in Mongolia; Labor joins Libs on shop hours; NAB debt doubt hits banks; Inflation keeps pressure on rates; Clean coal strategy not viable for 20 years

With 65 years’ hospitality experience between them, Judy and Michael Monaghan show no sign of slowing down. Adam Orlando reports

RATHER than scaling back its operations during the current economic downturn, Perth-based 3D animation and visualisation firm Last Pixel has taken the opportunity to diversify its business.

LOVE them or loathe them, the ubiquitous social networking and blogging sites are a fact of life in the 21st century US research shows that these sites accounted for 17 per cent of all time spent on the internet in August 2009, nearly three times as much

THE Rural Business Development Corporation has launched a pilot-mentoring program for struggling agribusinesses in rural Western Australia.

ASX beefs up scrutiny of floats; China digs in on energy, mine investment growth; Another day, another pay revolt; ING calls in shareholders to save its skin; Kelly on rate attack

Big jump in land prices raises new boom fears; Investors snap up $1bn worth of Myer shares; Labor faces $25bn fight over Telstra network value; Import costs slashed as rate increase looms; We were wrong on closing branches - Hanlon

Business warns of bottlenecks; Wheatstone LNG plant to cost $21bn; Fresh suspicion over Storm; Head-to-head on rates; Rising costs as inflation dragon awakens

Former West Australian cabinet minister Norm Marlborough has escaped gaol time but received a $12,500 fine after being found guilty of giving false evidence to the Corruption and Crime Commission in 2006.

Boom to last decades - Treasury; ABC face $1bn damages lawsuit; China takes new course of growth; 'Listen to Telstra shareholders' - Don Argus says; Share too expensive says Future Fund

BHP under pressure on uranium business; Canadian to mine WA uranium; Centro directors on notice; Wings clipped on pay; Tax rule change a break for hapless MIS investors

JOHN Battley has spent 30 years growing Globetrotter Corporate Travel from a small suburban agency to one of the largest privately owned travel management companies in the country.

WHILE debate continues over the federal government's proposed emissions trading scheme, a new group has emerged to steer Western Australians toward a greener future.

FREMANTLE is poised for a shake-up with newly elected mayor Brad Pettitt determined to bring business back to a tourist precinct.

Foreign buyers eye BHP's Ravensthorpe mine; Opposition bid to derail Telstra split; Japanese nod for $200m Kemerton silicon boost; Falling food and petrol prices put squeeze on Woolworths; Gillard's 'secret deal' for union

The Woodside-operated North West Shelf venture has contributed $70 billion to Australia's gross domestic product in the past 20 years, a new report by economic consultants ACIL Tasman has found.

Moly joins rush for China cash; Business hit as dismissal claims soar; FMG leaves funding door open; Search for $1bn as PNG sale fails; Privacy fears on post office push