Curtin University of Technology opened a sister campus in Sydney earlier this week to take advantage of the city’s international profile and appeal to overseas students wanting to study in Australia.
The constraints placed on relaxation by a ‘time-poor’ workforce and the search for a market niche drove massage therapist Meg Watson out of her clinic and on the road.
The service sector’s value as an export commodity has been recognised by the creation of a separate visa category for 10,500 Australian business people to work and live in the US, according to local trade and economic specialists.
Small Business Minister John D’Orazio will finalise his recommendations concerning the reorganisation of the state’s Business Enterprise Centres network by the end of the month.
External administrators have been appointed to high-profile Perth expo company Media and Events Australia Pty Ltd, leaving uncertainty for unsecured creditors owed as much as $1 million.
Ron McDonald is optimistic that Australian cattle producers will vote ‘yes’ this month in an industry-wide ballot to increase the cattle transaction levy by $1.50 to $5 per head sold.
Perth company MineARC Systems hopes to develop its ‘refuge chamber’ technology beyond the mining sector to include projects in the nuclear waste, and major road and railway tunnel building sectors.
Embedded Technology Corporation is in many ways an archetypal early stage software company, driven by dedication and enthusiasm but with global aspirations.
Gerry Monteiro narrowly escaped family tragedy twice in an eight-month period a few years ago when he almost ran over his son while reversing the family caravan down the driveway.
Researchers at the University of Western Australia have licensed a technology that may lead to a new treatment for osteoporosis, the skeletal disorder that affects almost two million Australians.
Perth will host a major international tourism event this month when the Australian Tourism Exchange makes its way west for the first time in its 20-year history.
Activity tour company Western Travel Bug has been a part of the Australian Tourism Exchange for almost a decade, and the company’s managing director, Brian Anderson, says ATE 05 in Perth couldn’t have come at a better time.
A new technology developed at Curtin University and currently being commercialised by Sydney company, Neuromonics, is seeking to change the widely held view that the medical condition tinnitus cannot be treated.
Perth company Cool Energy is preparing for field trials of a ‘gas sweetening’ technology that could allow dozens of ‘shut in’ gas fields around the world to be developed.
In universities, in public research institutions, even in the proverbial backyard sheds, vast numbers of inventive, creative types around Australia are looking for the next big breakthrough.
Former Orbital Engine Corporation chief executive Kim Schlunke came to some interesting conclusions when he sat down three years ago to ponder the future of recreational transport.
