Gary Kleyn

* AFTER attracting the 2001 International Bloodless Medicine and Surgery (IBMS) Conference to Perth, the Perth Convention Bureau has won its second online bid with the 2003 International Society for Environmental Epidemiology (ISEE) Conference.

CONTRARY to popular belief, moorings at Rottnest Island cannot be passed on to the owner’s children.There are about 870 mooring licences available and a waiting list for most of them.

THE lack of submissions to the Gunning Committee of Inquiry into the Building Disputes Tribunal was a vote of confidence in building standards and dispute resolution processes, according to the Master Builders Association of WA.

PERTH will be part of a national first next month when the city is included in the presentations of 11 world-renowned thought leaders and influencers, including former South African President, Nelson Mandela.

WA’S commercial auction clearance rate, or the rate of auctions that resulted in a successful sale, was only 38 per cent in September, according to the Commercial Property Monitor.

A RAPID-response team of the world’s best brains to solve business and government problems is being launched in the Government House Ballroom this week by the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade Alexander Downer.

THE Real Estate Institute of WA, the Soil and Land Conservation Council and the World Wide Fund for nature (WWF) have joined forces in a bid to encourage people to buy bush properties for conservation.

It had everything. Powerful, high-tech lights, large enough to be pulled on a trailer behind a small truck, music and an excitable ground announcer.

WA will play a significant role in meeting the increasing global consumer demand for batteries, as portable electronic devises such as mobile phones become a way of life, according to HiTec Energy’s new general manager technical Chris Ward.

FEDERAL Small Business Minister Peter Reith has pledged to keep fighting to have small businesses exempted from unfair dismissal legislation.

The old City Planning Scheme is likely to be replaced with City Planning Scheme 2 early next year.

CPA Australia has launched a new specialist designation to formally recognise members with expertise in information technology.

SMALL businesses will bear the brunt of the Federal Government’s Entity Taxation Bill when it becomes law on July 1.

COMMERCIAL property investors can now seek finance and compare offers from more than 25 financial institutions on a new website created by Australia’s largest commercial mortgage originator Ashe Morgan Winthrop.

BURSWOOD wants to deal into Internet gambling, which is expected to be worth US$2 billion next year.Burswood managing director John Schaap told the estimated 400-strong crowd at the company’s annual general meeting this week, that Internet gambling was

Garden City openGARDEN City’s $110 million redevelopment was officially opened last week after more than18 months of work.

WELL-KNOWN Perth business man Henry “Harry” Kitson, AM, F.C.A., died in Perth earlier this month after a brief illness. He was 77.

THE Labor Party would ensure that the inner city does not become a “ghetto for the rich” because economic and cultural diversity was important for the vibrancy of the city, according to Shadow Minister for Planning Alannah MacTiernan.

MOTORISTS converting their vehicles to Liquefied Petroleum Gas or buying LPG-powered vehicles will receive $500 from the WA Government.

I account for GST on a cash basis. I received some goods and services pre-1 July 2000, but did not pay for them until after 1 July? Should I include these payments in my Business Activity Statement?

SMALL business retailers need to prepare early for pre-Christmas trading to make the most of the festive period.This year’s metropolitan pre-Christmas trading period includes the two Sundays before Christmas and two extra late night trading days.

A BROTHER of legendary pop singer Michael Jackson spent 36 hours in Perth last week investigating opportunities to invest in Perth real estate.

IN A bid to expand the number of people participating in Walk to Work Day on November 3, the Heart Foundation has invited mayors across Perth to set an example by walking to work.

THE new Residential Design Codes, while welcomed by the property industry as a step in the right direction, still need to go further to provide a more flexible development environment, says Inner City Housing Developers Association president Derwent South

THREE WA Government departments have been told to lift their game by the Auditor General, Des Pearson.In a report tabled in Parliament last week, the WA Auditor General found the three agencies, responsible for governing the control of liquid waste, exp

MORE than $300,000 grants worth aimed at increasing small business vocational education and training have been released in the cities of Stirling and Swan.

STANTON Hillier Parker’s Perth office has rebranded itself as Burgess Rawson after joining the national Burgess Rawson Group.Managing director Geoff Potter said the union made a lot of sense.

Weekly commentaryEconomy: Even though the US employment report released last Friday showed US unemployment rate at record lows of 3.9%, we maintain that the US economy is slowing down. The number of US companies flagging a deteriorating earnings outlook

THE US will support Australia’s push at the next World Trade Organisation meeting to remove agricultural subsidies, including those in the US, according to the newly appointed US Ambassador to Australia, Edward “Skip” Gnehm.

I account for GST on a cash basis. I received some goods and services pre-1 July 2000, but did not pay for them until after 1 July? Should I include these payments in my Business Activity Statement?

FRANK Lister and his family have shared a long and happy affinity with working in the salt mines.Mr Lister is managing director of WA Salt Supply, a family-run company founded in 1944, which supplies the local market and exports to almost a dozen count

THE Perth office market has become a landlord’s market as vacancies drop and the pressure falls back on tenants.Perth’s office vacancy rate has fallen again in the first three months of the financial year to 8.4 per cent, down from 9.1 per cent at the e