THE Electricity Reform Task Force’s plan to create separate State Generation and State Retail electricity entities could be doomed to failure, according to the public version of a report commissioned by WA Treasury and Western Power.
IT is often said that times of great change can make for strange bedfellows, and the proposed changes to WA’s electricity market have proved no exception.
SUBMISSIONS from suburban newspaper proprietors alleging that the Community Newspaper Group is waging a predatory pricing campaign against them are being filed with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.
AN international tax forum is being held in Perth on October 28 to discuss how other countries have gone about reforming their international tax arrangements.
WITH the dot.com boom a fast-receding memory, electronic marketing is starting to become top of mind again as companies that invested heavily in second and third generation Internet technology try to recoup a return on that investment.
WHILE Saturday’s bombing of a Bali nightclub has made a lot of Australians rethink safety issues, security companies are not expecting a huge spike in demand for their services.
NEW schedules involving jet aircraft flights to Karratha connecting with smaller aircraft to open up WA’s north-west could be on the agenda for Skywest under new CEO Scott Henderson.
A UNIVERSITY of WA professor’s biography of former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini has been a surprise hit.And publishers Allen Lane/Penguin have already commissioned a follow-up work.
PROPER due diligence is proving vital for Australia’s listed companies and their directors, as is demonstrated by reports from the Royal Commission into the collapse of insurer HIH.
BUSINESSES turning over less than $3 million a year will be drawn into the Privacy Act from December 21. The businesses affected are those trading in personal information that are related to a larger business or contract to Commonwealth agencies.
