Staff Reporters

EDITH Cowan University has responded to the changing economic climate with the establishment of a new Institute for Services – the first of its kind in Australia.

Australia’s largest professional body has a new name.CPA Australia is the new company and business name for the Australian Society of Certified Practising Accountants.

THE Property Council of Australia has called on the WA Government to use preparations for the State budget to remove policies retarding WA’s property industry.

Channel Nine is active in developing the careers of new local talent according to production manager and senior director Russ Cunneen.

The Douglas mineral sands project has been valued at about $100 million on an output of 150,000 tonnes of concentrate annually.

Brian Rogers has done well to win the job of editor at The West Australian newspaper, though his appointment is causing some catty comments from the staff.

SANFORD Securities is running scared in light of the online discount broking industry price war.

Small business anxiety over the GST has hit new heights, analysis by CPA Australia has revealed.

Curtin academic and consultant to the Ministry for Planning, Carey Curtis, called for better integration of land use and transport planning at the recent Breaking Frontiers conference.

IT’S OFFICIAL – the Austra-lian Broadcasting Corporation board has endorsed East Perth’s new media village as the preferred site for its relocation.

A positive prognosis for the future of gold, despite the many problems, was highlighted at the recent Australian Gold Conference held at Burswood Convention Centre.

Australia needs its farmers, or so we are told. They feed us, earn lots of export dollars and populate the less pleasant parts of the country far from the coast.

INVESTOR confidence in Western Australia has been reinforced again with the announcement of the $1 billion West Angelas iron ore project in the Pilbara.

FORMER WA manager of Austrade Terry Goss has been appointed to head up the commission’s Olympic-oriented Business Club Australia program.

More straws in the wind for a market correction. Two Perth ‘money’ families have made belated entries into the dot.com world.

AFTER eighteen years of writing, producing, directing and filming more than 5,000 commercials for Channel 7, Ron Reddingius has formed his own production company, Dingo Is Talent.

WESTEL subsidiary Concentrix has completed the construction of its telephone number portability platform on schedule.

CARBON trading could damage WA industrial expansion plans, investors have been warned.

FOLLOWING rock-breaking technology trials in South Africa, Brandrill Limited has entered into partnership with Impala Platinum Holdings Limited to develop a continuous mining system using penetrating cone fracture technology.

If you haven’t been to Tagines, go this week. It’s that good.It’s not flash, it’s certainly not pretentious and the clientele wears colours other than black.It’s casual, yet professional.The food is great. The service is like having tea at your fav

Marketing tips for Australian companies targeting the world’s largest market have been released on audiotape.

FARGO-based Great Plains Soft-ware has launched its Siebel Front Office product in WA through Applecross-based company Sequel Technology.

OIL producer Apache Energy Ltd is one of several WA organisations sponsoring a trade mission of twenty local delegates to the Offshore Technology Conference in Houston, Texas in May.

The benefits of working from home far outweigh any negatives, says Draw Card Design Group partners Ken and Dixie Cawthorne.

Saving time is the number one priority of customer relationship management, says GartnerGroup research director Neil McMurchy.

TECHNOLOGY doesn’t have to be pitted against privacy, says Federal Privacy Commissioner Malcolm Crompton.

Hydrocarbon junior explorer Hardman Resources NL has enjoyed a healthy spike in its share price since giving the green light to its Colombo gas drilling project near Rome.

SANFORD Securities has begun to upgrade its service bandwidth from fourteen megabits per second to 114 megabits per second.

COMPANIES doing business in Japan need to specifically tailor their products and business

THE jewel in the Business Club Australia crown, its state-of-the-art Club venue located at Darling Harbour in Sydney is on schedule for its 1 August opening.

If the crash comes, what do we do? Well, Briefcase has found the perfect getaway – go back to school. Not just any school, but the unimaginably perfect school – the Florence campus of New York University.

STRONG resurgence in the Asian steel market has been the catalyst for expansion of Robe River Iron Associates’ Pilbara iron ore mining operations with the $1 billion development of West Angelas.