Staff Reporters

MOBILITY is the key word for the Cannington-based Australian Tax Office GST field team.

TWO Bartercard offices in WA are moving to bigger premises to cope with business growth.

WA manganese producer Consolidated Minerals Limited will shortly kick off a major reverse circulation drilling program at its Woodie Woodie project in the Pilbara as part of a long-term strategy to increase the project resource base to underpin a ten year

PERTH-based Internet service provider iiNet has entered binding contracts to acquire fellow Perth-based ISPs Networx, Octal and Infinite Data.

ECLIPSE Breeding Venture is offering two naturally bred yearlings for this year’s Magic Millions sale. The stud farm has been running for nearly ten years.

SENTIMENT in the world diamond market is high and augurs well for WA producers.

A NEW electronic commerce-based insurance company for credit unions and their members has been formed by the Credit Union Services Corporation.

Those spy cameras operated by the Perth City Council are interesting things. Tenants in Exchange Plaza have been watching with interest a new one on top of the PCC’s office block.

WA-BASED Internet stockbroker Sanford Securities is providing the online share trading systems for the National Australia Bank online trading service launched on 15 February.

SHENTON Park-based company Daily Living Products has carved itself a niche in the tough eastern states physiotherapy market with its home health care equipment.

TREASURER Peter Costello has finally agreed to review the GSTtreatment of long term leases.

THE Shorter Group is moving to new premises in East Perth as a result of increasing staff levels.

AN ONLINE claims processing system has been launched by Perth-based Plexus International.

At the risk of being politically incorrect (something which never bothers Briefcase) it is worth taking a look at how a particular management theory is affecting some of WA’s biggest companies.

SMART Silicon Systems Pty Ltd will launch its products on the South African market this year and has been invited to analyse and possibly design other solutions and products for a large telecommunications customer.

THE recovery of a large number of diamonds has given Striker Resources NL confidence in the potential of its Beta Creek project in the Kimberley region of WA.

STRONG leasing activity by the information technology and telecommunications sector in the Perth CBD was one of the major drivers behind the recent fall in Perth’s office vacancy rate, according to John Adcock of Colliers Jardine.

JOHN Davis Advertising acquired more than a dozen new major clients during the traditionally quiet December and January.

VICTORIA Park-based software developer PBA Professional is negotiating the European, US and Asia Pacific distribution of its DMS Office Automator product.

ARABIAN horses are particularly intelligent in comparison to their equine brothers of other breeds, says Top Fancy Arabians owner Susie Johnson.

TEAMS vying for the America’s Cup have used Fremantle-based Formation Design Systems’ software technology to design their yachts.

THE movement against cybersquatting, the use of trade marked names for websites which are not held by the owner, is gaining momentum.

JUNIOR oil and gas explorer First Australian Resources NL has signalled its intent to the bourse that it intends going down the track of the electronic superhighway.

THE days of retail giants such as Harvey Norman, Woolworths and Coles entering the non-bank financial industry are not far away.

AUSTRALIA’S first purely online directory developer has been created with shareholders in Boss Resources voting to change the company’s name to Aussie Online Limited.

As businesses demand more complex website functionality, web developers may have to learn a lot more about XML – it’s been around for nearly four years but now its time may have arrived.

aRECORD production from WA’s Stag field has provided a fillip for Santos Ltd’s balance sheet for 1999.

BENTLEY-based Dynamic Digital Depth has devised a way to deliver 3D content over the Internet.

A great read I enjoyed over the summer break was Gerry McGovern’s new book The Caring Economy...Business Principles for the New Digital Age.

Hotel Northbridge has been one of the big beneficiaries of the ‘clean up’ of Highgate, says licencee Matt Doughty.

THE average employee now spends less than four years with the same organisation, according to a survey by Drake Management Consulting.

GOLD production for Sons of Gwalia Ltd has only just exceeded budgetary targets in spite of Red October recently coming on stream.