MINISTER for Small Business Hendy Cowan has announced the appointment of Maureen McDaniell to the board of the Small Business Development Corporation for a two-year term.
TAKINGS from South West accommodation providers increased more than $2 million in the March quarter, compared with the corresponding quarter in 1999, according to a survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
THE proposed Derby Tidal Power scheme has received a setback with an independent report supporting the State Government’s decision to back a gas proposal for power supply to the West Kimberley.
RESOURCES Development Minister Colin Barnett has congratulated Worsley Alumina on the completion of the billion dollar expansion of its alumina refinery at Worsley in the South West.
WA’S booming wine industry has led to what is believed to the biggest leasing deal executed in Perth’s industrial market over the past two years, according to Chesterton International director of industrial sales and leasing Ben Davies.
STRONG economic growth has boosted imports of forest products.In the first three quarters of 1999-2000, forest products imports were 11 per cent higher than the corresponding period in 1998-99.
OFFICE vacancies in the City of Perth defied industry predictions of a tightening in vacancy rates to remain unchanged at 11 per cent, according to the Property Council of Australia’s office market report.
CPA Australia has called on accounting standard-setters to turn their attention to the not-for-profit sector, including charities, nursing homes, universities, churches and political parties.
THE terms of reference for the independent expert review of the sustained yield of the South West native forests has been announced by WA Environment Minister Cheryl Edwardes.
THE Real Estate Institute of WA has welcomed an Australian Taxation Office ruling removing requirements for residential rental strata unit owners to be registered for GST.
FARMERS can look forward to a brighter future for 2000-01, according to forecasts by the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics outlined in the June quarter issue of Australian Commodities.
CONSTRUCTION firm Clough Engineering Limited has sold its nine-storey Perth headquarters building to the National Australia Bank Superannua-tion Fund for $21.3 million.
FOLLOWING five years of consultation, the WA Planning Commission has released a report which maps out infrastructure planning for greater Bunbury and the South West.Central to Industry 2039: Greater Bunbury Industrial Land and Port Access Planning i..
THE complexity of the GST and other tax changes and their far reaching effects on builders, subcontractors and homebuyers present the greatest challenge faced by the building industry.
THE residential building boom sweeping the Busselton area will be accommodated by a new land release plan recently announced by Planning Minister Graham Kierath.The plan, believed to be the first of its kind for the South West, stems from estimations...
INTEREST only loans provide better tax benefits for property investors according to Investors Club member Graham Kirby.“The only component that is tax deductible in these loans is the interest, and not the principal reductions,” Mr Kirby said.
ONE of the most publicly-scrutinised initiatives in the WA Government’s competition reform agenda – the contracting out of Transperth bus services – has been revisited by the WA Auditor General Des Pearson.
BGC Construction has won the major prize in the 2000 Master Builders’ Excellence in Construction Awards for the $14.2 million TVW Telethon Institute for Child Health Research in Subiaco.
