Gary Kleyn

FREMANTLE means business.

Calls for an inquiry into Main Roads land acquisition practices are being made by a Perth solicitor’s firm.

BANKWEST is now offering customers an online share trading service.

STRONG consumer confidence seems to support Retail Traders’ Association forecasts that WA Christmas-related spending will rise 2.5 per cent on last year.

AUSTRALIAN companies have much to offer Britain in terms of expertise and innovation said the United Kingdom Minister for Consumers and Corporate Affairs during a whirlwind tour to Perth.

THE $50 million renovation of David Jones in Hay Street Mall will lead the charge to encouraging shoppers to return to the CBD.

TWO WA Tourism Commission officers have won a $20,000 Federal Government grant to kick-start sustainable tourism accommodation in rural WA.

THERE has been a big jump in house and land sales in WA according to the Department of Land Administration.

CONFIRMATION of bank supremacy in the profit stakes have been confirmed by new Australian Bureau of Statistics data.

THE Australian Geoscientist Skills and Employment Network and CIBC Eyres Reed chairman David Reed have joined forces to fight for the survival of the gold industry.

PLANNING Minister Graham Kierath and a seven-memberdelegation have recently been on a four-day trip to Sydney and Newcastle to look at what redevelopment authorities are accomplishing there.

FACING a declining timber industry as a result of the new Regional Forest Agreement, many in the South West are looking elsewhere to generate ideas for alternative income.

FREMANTLE badly needs A-Grade offices says Fremantle Property Group proprietor and Fremantle waterfront development director Bob Shields.

AUSTRALIA is in the midst of an economic revolution characterised by nine years of sustained growth that is likely to continue for the next decade.

WORKERS who became unemployed as a result of the WA governments’ about-face over the Regional Forest Agreement are being given aid to reskill.

NOVEMBER has seen the announcement of a number of CBD sales of both commercial and development sites.

NATIONAL Australia Bank managing director, CEO and Australian Bankers Association chairman Frank Cicutto has called on the government to share the social responsibility resulting fromeconomic changes.

THE old St John of God in Bunbury will be kept intact on the outside at least, says one of the group of fifteen who purchased the property for $6.1 million.

A PERTH based company, aussiehome.com, has been formed to provide local information about Perth’s suburbs using computer map-making skills developed for the resources industry.

Inadequacies in Australia’s defence capabilities seems to beleading the growing sentiment to increase the country’s population.

NEGOTIATIONS are currently underway among key stakeholders to make the Belvedere Peninsula accessible to tourists and locals.

ALTHOUGH there has been a residential building approvals surge in recent months, approvals still remain below the 1994 peak.

HOUSING Minister Kim Hames has made a compromise to preserve the tuart forest in the Ministry of Housing’s Shearwater development.

SMILES were all around at the recent sundowner held in Bunbury’s Edith Cowan University to celebrate the success of South West businesses in the recent WA Telstra Small Business Development Corporation Awards.

PROPERTY valuers making valuations not indicative of true value could be negligent and liable to pay compensation.

THE construction of a new Busselton bypass is set to begin after Henry Walker Eltin Contracting won the right to the project.

BIBRA Lake is emerging as one of WA’s industrial hot spots according to Colliers Jardine industrial sales negotiator Roco Demaio.

BELGIUM is stepping up a notch and challenging The Netherlands’ role as the ‘Gateway to Europe’.

A LANDSCAPING master plan to develop eco-tourism and recreation facilities as part of the Harvey Dam has been released.

NON-residential building starts in WA are forecast to experience moderate growth over the next two years to 2000-01 before a downturn in 2001-02, says the latest Building Industry Prospects report by BIS Shrapnel.

PROVIDING taxation advice to clients has been a real boon for financial advisers, particularly in light of the tax changes that are currently underway.

THE transformation of Marlston Hill has been given an Urban Development Institute of Australia (WA) award for excellence.UDIA judges named Marlston Hill joint winner in the Urban Renewal category of the awards.