FEDERAL Minister for Trade Mark Vaile has returned after leading over forty senior business people to the Middle East on one of Australia’s largest ministerial trade missions.
THE Federal Government has failed in its attempt to educate commercial landlords on the implication of the GST on their investments says Chesterton International managing director Graham Iddles.
REGIONAL Australia is being sold short by Internet web site designers who are creating barriers and holding back widespread Internet usage, according to a new report from the Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation.
DEVELOPMENT and building approval times in the City of Bunbury have been halved under the streamlined processing system, says City of Bunbury CEO Michael Whitaker.
WHILE much attention has been drawn to the recent disturbance involving police and the media during a visit by the Prime Minister John Howard, little or no attention has been paid to the event which Mr Howard was attending at the time.
INCOME tax cuts due in July will offset any slowdown in housing demand, says national land development group, Peet & Co managing director Warwick Hemsley.
HEGNEY Property Valuations has announced its intention to expand into the South West by opening an office in Margaret River servicing Bunbury through to Augusta.
THE Perth property market will continue to improve until 2002 on the back of improved outlooks for the resource and export sectors according to a report by Westpac.
THE South West, along with the rest of the state, will benefit from a $1.5 million WA Government training strategy, Employment and Training Minister Mike Board told attendees at the launch in Bunbury.
SOME government departments and agencies need to lift their game and rise to the challenge of being more transparent in the face of increased public scrutiny.
THE new home building boom in WA, which began twelve months ago, shows no signs of slowing according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
PROPOSED changes to the Building Act currently before Cabinet will introduce competition to local government services, says Local Government Minister Paul Omodei.
EMPLOYER confidence about employment growth has decreased in the first quarter of 2000 when compared to the final quarter of 1999, according to the recent Morgan & Banks Job Index.
AT A time when the level of share ownership in Australia is the highest in the western world, members of the public are understandably clamouring for more information and research to help them come to grips with the share market.
Building unions will target prominent government-funded building projects in the lead-up to the next State election, according to the Master Builders Association.
Monday 21 February was an active day for the South West region.It was the day when the State Cabinet met, opened, launched and shored up support from the regions affected by the Regional Forest Agreement.
WHILE both new Master Builders Association president John Mitchell and prominent builder Len Buckeridge share similar ideals, one has become a household name while the other has remained relatively obscure.
