THE diversified resource sector hitting the strongest industry grouping performance during December augurs well for the industry which continues to be dogged by gold jitters and hawkish sentiment from US markets.
IN AN increasingly ‘wired’ world one might expect energy consumption, and with it greenhouse gas emissions, to grow but studies suggest electronic commerce is environmentally friendly.
WITH the dawn of the new millennium, the world’s most powerful banker, Allan Greenspan has recognised that the Internet-led new economy has rewritten the economic rule book.
PERTH-based Titan Resources NL has completed construction of a $2.23 million pilot plant for bacterial leaching of its Mt Sholl nickel-copper ore deposit in the Pilbara region of WA.
It is agreed – the Internet brings with it the ability to personalise marketing faster and more easily than ever before, but privacy is becoming an issue.
TWO multi-million dollar abalone farms are being set up for the first time in WA in the small South West seaside resort of Bremer Bay – recently hard hit by the closure of the pilchard fishing industry by Bremer Fish Processors.
Premier Richard Court has responded to a request from the WA division of the Property Council for an explanation of the intention to apply stamp duty on property transactions that attract a GST, establishing the duty as a second tax dip.
PERTH-based Mineralogy Pty Ltd has entered into an agreement with Austeel Pty Ltd to provide access to 740 million tonnes of magnetite ore on attractive commercial terms.
WA’S gas industry is expecting a very busy year.Australian Gas Association industry development manager David Parker said the industry had a number of key activities either underway or scheduled for 2000...
Before the modern day ubiquity of the dial-a-pizza phenomenon, young men seeking saturated fats sought out Mexican restaurants. There was no cheaper or finer way to ingest the two teenage male food groups – fat and fattier.
LAST year was a big year for the Property Council of Australia’s lobbying efforts on tax reform, a battle it fought on three fronts – the Ralph report, GST and stamp duty.
PERTH-based junior Lynas Gold NL has received a research and development grant of $1.1 million from the Federal Government’s Industry Research and Development Board, through AusIndustry.
Nearly 23 per cent of all Australian households had home Internet access in August 1999 compared with 18 per cent in August 1998, according to Australian Bureau of Statistics figures.
THE decision by Melbourne-based Plenty River Corporation to select the Burrup Peninsula as the preferred site for its proposed $800 million ammonia and urea plant will be a fillip for Western Australian business.
CABLE & Wireless Optus and Telstra have been recently chosen by the WA Government to supply data communications services to government agencies in remote areas of the State.
ERIC Streitberg is relentlessly pursuing his pipedream of expanding considerably oil and gas output in the Dongara production licence area near the coastal town of Dongara.
