Staff Reporters

Junior minerals explorer Macmin NL has reduced its operating costs by as much as 50 per cent to concentrate on its Twin Hills prospect on the Texas project in Papua New Guinea.

THE annual windup for this year’s HR Week, the Australian Human Resources Institute Country Conference, will be held at Club Capricorn in Yanchep from 27 to 29 August.

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THE woman who pioneered the mastectomy boutique concept is now spreading her company’s reach.

SYBIZ Software has devised a method for proving year 2000 compliance of its accounting systems to suppliers, customers and bank managers.

HARDMAN Resources NL plans to drill the Colom-bo 1 gas exploration well, in the Italian Fiume Tevere permit, in October this year.

WHILE some organisations still perceive human resource management theories to be little more than snake oil, others view them as the key for securing the long-term success of a company.

WESTERN Australians can be justifiably proud at news that the Perth Mint will be producing victory medals for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games.

ONE of WA’s largest privately owned forests has been placed on the market.

Market research companies are coming up with a new vocabulary to describe groups forming among the millions of online consumers.

Stockbroker DJ Carmich-ael Pty Limited has ratedNewcrest Mining Ltd a buy for its “enormous resilience” in the current tough gold mining environment.

MANY of today’s jobs will be obsolete in twenty years’ time, according to research by the WA Department of Training.

THOUGH the fabrication and heavy industry sector is in the throes of a downturn, some companies are preparing for the inevitable upswing.

THE owner-manager of an expanding Bussel-ton-based tourism business has won a Bank-West scholarship to participate in a management training program.

A PERTH-based personal development practitioner has devised a technique to help shift workers relax.

DESCRIBED as a “dream come true” BHP’s newly commissioned $2.45 billion hot briquetted iron processing plant has set an historic precedent.

At this year’s annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, a survey conducted by Price Waterhouse Coopers revealed that 97 percent of senior executives believe knowledge management is a critical issue for them.

BUSINESSES intending to enter the South West Small Business Awards should be preparing their applications now, says Leschenault Business Enterprise Centre manager Alison Lannin.

Organisational values will be of paramount importance in the new millennium, says Modal (Measurable Organisational Development and Learning) managing director Neil McGrechan.

THE number of Australians going bankrupt jumped by more than eight per cent last financial year, according to the latest official figures.

THE Northbridge Business Association is back in action after a two year hiatus.

WESTPAC has been named the Online Bank of the Year at the Personal Investor Bank of the Year Awards.

Some of the deepest hydrocarbon exploration drilling offshore Australia soon will be undertaken by West Australian Petroleum Pty Limited (WAPET).

THE Australian Human Resources Institute’s Foundation of Human Resources course is an ideal practical introduction to best practice in people management, says AHRI regional manager Brett Waters.

WA’S resources industry needs to confront how it will handle the introduction of a GST on 1 July next year.

STUDENTS from St Mary’s Ang-lican Girls’ School are being taught the facts of business life.

AUSTRALIA is unlikely to be badly bitten by the Millennium Bug, according to information presented at the first National Infrastructure For-um on Y2K readiness.

TITAN Resources NL believes it is on the verge of a major metallurgical breakthrough to biologically recover nickel from base metal sulphide ores –a process which is attracting keen international attention from other base metal miners around the world.

APPLICATIONS are sought for the 1999 Australian Human Resources Institute Awards for Excellence in People Management.

Once it was easy to identify an accountant. They sat at sloped desks with green eyeshades and painstakingly posted ledgers in columns of debits and credits.

BUNBURY-based Leonie’s Cater-ing Service has been nominated five times in seven categories at the Restaurant and Caterers Industry Association of WA’s Awards.

An enduring human resource management software system should be easy to customise, says Oracle regional sales and marketing manager Susan Hamilton.