Noel Dyson

FEDERAL Senate willing, WA should get a state-based Native Title system that will help alleviate the 11,000 mining title backlog.

THE Australian Securities and Investments Commission has joined a US Securities and Exchange Commission campaign to stop Internet-based free share offers.

IMPORTERS, exporters, brokers and forwarders will be hit by changes to cargo management to be introduced by the Australian Customs Service in 2001.

PERTH businesswoman Anouska Taylor is proving age is no barrier to business success.

AN EXERCISE to find an industry not backed by a WA university has led to the creation of a soon-to-be-exported degree course.

THE recent Women in Timber Conference has faced the prospect of major change.

ADULT wages for eighteen-year-olds in the retail industry have become an impossible dream thanks to the Beazley-Reith deal on junior wage rates, says Australian Democrats Workplace Relations spokesman Andrew Murray.

EMPLOYERS face an extra 100 per cent hike in workers’ compensation insurance premiums over the next two years thanks to the WA Labor Party and the Democrats.

A MAJOR information and education campaign to prepare WA farmers for the GST has been recently approved.

RETIRED consultant Tom Lawson became so annoyed with the escalating rate of WA crime, he decided to write and publish a book about it.

CHARLOTTE Stockwell has been named council’s new director of strategic planning.

BEING proactive will help stall WA’s growing crime rate, says Security Agents Institute of WA president Jerry Lee Jones.

A blueprint is being created to improve science teaching in primary and secondary schools.

FINANCIAL services group IOOF Aust-ralia Trustees Limited has purchased a package of software systems from Perth-based financial software developer All Solutions.

A ten-storey apartment building proposed for 2 Mounts Bay Road, Crawley has received council approval.

WA’S first integrated biomedical research institute has received a $1 million kick start from the WA Government.

CURTIN university has received US$5 million industry support for a new international study and training centre for the oil and gas industry.

Smart card technology group ERG has recorded a jump in group profit of 47 per cent in the 1998-99 financial year.

COUNCIL’S latest food fight has erupted over a plan to limit its dining room opening hours to one week day per week and one Saturday a month.

Australia’s first textile, clothing and footwear resource centre has opened in WA.

MANY small business operators are overestimating their GST readiness and may be unprepared for its introduction, says a business survey by the Australian Society of Certified Practicing Accountants.

THE EXTENDED lunch is long gone with 88.8 per cent of employers saying it no longer exists for most employees, according to the latest Morgan & Banks Job Index.

EVEN without the controversy in East Timor, Indonesia is unlikely to enjoy anything more than a slow economic growth rate for some time.

MANJIMUP Syndicate Coolstores has taken the title of South West Business of the Year at the recent Small Business Development Corporation Awards.

BODYGUARD services are growing in demand thanks to Perth’s high crime rate, says Australasia Protective Services director of operations and investigations and close protection specialist Michael Martino.

COMPANIES setting up childcare facilities, particularly shared ones, may be entitled to fringe benefits tax exemptions.

RECENTLY listed Internet tools software developer HarvestRoad CEO Grame Barty will be one of the speakers at the forthcoming Business to Business Trade Show.

A NEW test facility at the Univer-sity of WA could be a boon for the offshore oil and gas industry.

THE South Pacific Regional Computer Programming Comp-etition will be hosted by Murdoch University on 18 September for the second year running.

MOTORCYCLISTS have been given twenty special parking bays in Northbridge. Currently there is a dearth of motorcycle parking bays in the area.

A SEMINAR on 7 October will give WA information technology entrepreneurs information on how to break into North America.

TAX changes will reduce the cost of producing goods and services for export by $4.5 billion per year, according to a Federal Govern-ment estimate.