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As the only architect in Western Australia with professional indemnity insurance to cover work on sites with fuel related activities and fuel storage and dispensing installations, Brian Wright has carved a niche in the market

John Howard and his senior ministers, all of whom hold interstate seats, show all the signs of embarking upon megalomaniacal bureaucratic practices rather than remaining the levelheaded administrators that Australians rightly expect.

The issue of BYO has recently been thrust back into Perth’s restaurant scene.

There is nothing new about the sight of hot money looking for a fat profit.

Leederville’s best kept burger secret is out. Retro Betty’s, famed for its generously proportioned homemade hamburgers, is moving to Innaloo.

In 2003, when WA Business News and Deloitte ran the first Rising Stars survey, the top-ranked business was advertising agency Gatecrasher.

Growth businesses are organisations with an expanding presence and recognised brand.

What stands Change Corporation ahead of its competitors, according to the company’s managing director Rob Evans, is providing clients with a combined consulting and IT solutions service, but then going one step further and implementing the technology t

Messages on Hold managing director Kym Illman attributes the growth of his business to a total focus on customer service.

Balcatta-based Blackadder Group’s growing client base includes CBD high-rises, Goldfields and North-West resource projects, industrial complexes, including water treatment plants, freeway and rail repair, extension and modification, and offshore oil and g

Kalgoorlie MLA Matt Birney’s unwavering confidence has propelled him to leadership of the Western Australian Liberal Party at the relatively young age of 35.

With Western Australia’s strong economy continuing to drive demand for industrial land, owner occupiers and investors are securing industrial land as fast as it is being supplied.

Although LandCorp is charged with supplying industrial land, purchasers are making substantial profits through sales, subdivision and increasing rents.

It may be a surprise to many but, until a couple of weeks ago, the goat was the world’s most widely eaten variety of meat.

The 2005 vintage will be remembered as one of real highs and some lows, according to Western Australian Wine Industry Association president John Griffiths.

Mark Kordic, formerly of Chestnut Grove winery in Manjimup, has been appointed as general manager of Alkoomi Wines.

THE commercialisation of a water purification technology by Perth-based Water Sciences International (WSI) could have a major impact on the Swan River amid other, wide-ranging applications.

For more than a century Kalgoorlie has been synonymous with gold mining and its associated industries and activities.

The competitive landscape facing Western Australian businesses will become a lot clearer over the next few weeks after the state and federal governments release plans for tax and industrial relations reforms.

Now that Labor’s One-Vote-One-Value legislation is finalised, let’s consider how parties and voters, the latter allegedly its beneficiaries, have emerged from this drawn-out tussle.

One step forward, one step back. If that sounds like marking time it’s because it is. And if you think it’s how the stock market is performing right now, you’re right.

A date of completion has been tentatively set for the 50-million-ounce-plus Golden Mile that no Kalgoorlie resident thought would ever run out of gold.

Confidence is high in Kalgoorlie’s residential property market, which is good for investors and home occupiers and bad for renters.

For now the Cloughs tentatively remain the largest shareholder in the engineering company that bears the family name. But that is set to change.

The Paino family, owners of prominent South Fremantle business Sealanes, provides a telling case study of a management succession that has not run according to plan.

While the issue of succession normally focuses on fathers and their children, in some notable cases succession has initially passed from husband to wife.

The term ‘family business’ is typically associated with private companies, yet people like Rupert Murdoch, Kerry Packer and Frank Lowy have proven it to have a much wider import.

The State Government has opened the door to the possibility of a joint venture to redevelop the old treasury buildings on the corner of Barrack Street and St Georges Terrace.

The Satterley Group last week announced a joint venture with Linc Property and John Poynton in purchasing a 4.3-hectare bulky goods site from the Midland Redevelopment Authority for $11.8 million.

Lose the low-carb alternatives, abandon Atkins and forget zero calorie options – the era of the degustation menu is upon us.