Staff Reporters

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.

IT IS now a matter of history that the changeover to the year 2000 happened without any great problems.

DURING September and October the Property Council of Australia surveyed its membership in relation to the preparedness of business for GST.

PERTH-based junior gold producer Alkane Exploration NL plans to become a significant player in the zirconia industry.

THE Federal Government has announced plans to develop a digital signature process to facilitate its dealings with Australian businesses.

North West Shelf Gas Pty Ltd has concluded a $200 million contract with AlintaGas for the ten year supply of product from 2002.

The Federal Government has branded criticisms of its new Internet content legislation, that came into effect on 1 January, as unfounded.

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.

ROBE River Associates, part of the North Limited group, is targeting an increased share of the market in China.

For those with a long-standing interest in the online economy, this last week produced a fairly significant event.

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.

WA WILL step into the new millennium with an “extremely positive” outlook for the resource industry.

SHOPPING centres can benefit from the impacts of e-commerce through strategic planning and flexibility, and can prosper during the ‘e-tailing' era according to the Property Council of Australia.

AUSTRALIA'S new community advisory body on Internet content has been established.

MONOCO Petroleum and its WA partners have reported encountering strong gas shows at 736 metres and oil shows at the interval 781-803 metres in the Cardart-1 well in New Caledonia.

WA FASHION house Pierucci has acquired a building in Adelaide's East End worth more than $1 million which will be ready for retail in late February.

ARGUABLY the world's largest person-to-person online tradingcommunity, eBay, has released a new Australian web site, www.ebay.com.au

PRO:NED has added a new senior executive search service to its non-executive and executive director search and recruitment services.

PLEXUS International has announced an alliance agreement with StateWest Credit Society.

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.

GRANT Chettleburg didn't know what sort of job he wanted after leaving school but soon made a name for himself in the horticulture industry.

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.

PROPERTY Council of Australia past President Gerald Major has been appointed by the Minister for Planning Graham Kierath to the important position of industry representative on the Central Perth Planning Committee.

WA company HotelNet has launched the first installation of its interactive Internet and entertainment system for hotels.

PERTH-based Talon Resources NL has been transformed from explorer to an industrial minerals producer withconsiderable growth prospects.

THERE is more to big and tall sizes than just increasing thenumbers of X's on a shirt or centimetres on the waist, says Kingsize Menswear director Cameron Blair.

BARNES and Noble are planning on upstaging Amazon.com by offering print-on-demand books.