Special Reports

Sean Gavin has taken the acclaimed family-operated construction business, Gavin Construction in a new direction.

After five years at Telstra, where she worked her way up to the position of senior corporate account executive, managing one of Telstra’s top accounts, Deanne Pederson jumped ship

Matt Birney, 33, is the youngest shadow minister in any State or Federal parliament in mainland Australia.

Since losing his mother and sister in a car accident at just seven years of age, Paul Hennessy has developed a desire to live life to its full and a tenacity to overcome adversity

For the past 15 years Professor Duane Varan has balanced a lecturing career in both Perth and the US with consultancy work for the A-list in world commerce.

In 1985 Andrew Ford and his business partner, Kyle Doonan, decided to open a small air-conditioning business. The pair used second-hand vans and second-hand tools.

The Zimbabwe World Cup Rugby squad member immigrated to Australia and began a new life on an extremely modest budget.

THE $437 million railcar contract for the planned Mandurah railway highlights the wide gap between rhetoric and reality that sometimes muddies the local content

THE centrepiece of the new local content incentive scheme, which formally commenced on January 1, is Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plans.

A new scheme to maximise local content on major projects formally took effect on January 1. Mark Beyer takes a close look at how major Western Australian projects are performing.

WA’S sole private electricity retailer says onerous regulations and charges are preventing more players from entering the State’s electricity market.

IF there was an award for companies achieving high local content on Western Australian projects, BHP Billiton would take line honours, while Woodside would be a

COMPANIES hoping to win big contracts from the Western Australian Government are now required to prepare Australian Industry Participation (AIP) plans.

DESPITE a difficult overall trading environment for insurance firms, Western Australian-based St Andrew’s Insurance has announced a 32 per cent jump in pre-tax profit for 2002.

A MALAGA-BASED manufacturer has recently signed a deal with Japanese manufacturer Kawasaki to supply the Japanese market with special beach cleaning technology.

IF you think individual businesses will find it hard under the new Contaminated Sites legislation, spare a thought for the WA Government.

THE opening of a new four-level, 9850 square metre manufacturing plant and imminent appointment of a new chief executive at the Gold Corporation mark an exciting new phase for the Perth Mint.

THE Minim Cove development and the East Perth Gasworks stand out as the State’s highest profile contamination locations of recent times – due to their massive clean-up costs and high level of public awareness.

A decade in the planning and a dozen drafts later, the Contaminated Sites Bill 2002 has put the State’s landowners on notice, as Gary Kleyn reports.

PROJECT managers could soon be able to lay their hands on a comprehensive list of project services providers. Former project manager Horst Kambeck is putting together the

THE ageing of Australia’s population has been widely predicted. Less well understood is the commercial and social impact of this change.

A RAPID growth in the number of one and two-person households will be one of the defining trends of the next decade, according to the WA Planning Commission.

MORE than 25 different species are farmed in aquaculture enterprises in WA, according to the WA Fishing Industry Council.

CONSIDER It Done Personal Concierge Service – the name of this Subiaco business says it all.

THERE is one country that will stand apart from all others in the international tourism market over the coming decade.

OPPORTUNITY through adversity could well be the catchcry of WA’s tree farming industry.

The Australian economy is constantly changing, with new industries emerging to replace the old. Mark Beyer looks at the forces driving change and identifies sectors with high growth prospects.

THE next serve of snapper you buy may never have been in the ocean.

FEDERAL Government pressures and proposed new access laws could bring a multi-billion dollar boost to WA’s renewable energy industry.

A RECENTLY formed WA company is making significant strides in its quest to find a treatment to arrest Alzheimer’s disease. UWA research offshoot Alzhyme Pty Ltd has a patent pending on its research and has secured investment to further its research.

PROVIDING seed funding, encouraging better collaboration between universities and industry, and promoting WA as a R&D hub are vital if WA is to make it into the big league.

Dr Tan said the best scientific results were achieved when there was cross fertilisation.