A RUNNER-UP in last year’s WA Business News Legal Elite survey, Mallesons Stephen Jaques partner John Naughton has gone one better in 2004, ranking as the top banking and finance lawyer in Perth.
THE past 12 months has been a busy and interesting period for Hunt & Humphry partner Michael Hunt, who has been ranked by his peers as the top mining lawyer in Western Australia for the second year in a row.
SETTING up a new law firm has clearly done nothing to dent the professional standing of Lee Christensen, who has been ranked the State’s top insolvency lawyer for the second year running.
STATE Government plans to rezone coastal and riverfront land under the Greater Bunbury Region Scheme have prompted an angry response from affected landowners, a farm lobby group and the property sector.
HOME buyers and investors camped out overnight to secure their piece of The Village at Wellard development on May 28, with all 47 first-release blocks selling by the end of the ne
AUSTRALIAN Telecommunications Users Group national director Walter Green said there had been a significant cost reduction in the delivery of fibre to homes in the first half of last year.
A PRODUCTIVITY Commission Report released in 1999 indicated that Australians were paying too much for telecommunications services compared with OECD standards.
TECHNOLOGY and Industry Advisory Council spokesman Rob Meecham told those at the WA Business News luncheon that access to existing telecommunications infrastructure already in the ground remained problematic as it was too costly for businesses to access.
WITHOUT world class, affordable telecommunications infrastructure the distance between an already remote Western Australia and the rest of the world is even greater.
A UDIA study tour in the US will this week visit Seaside, Florida, which is considered not only to be a model for new urban planning, dubbed ‘new urbanism’, but was also the setting for Hollywood film, The Truman Show.
WHEN Brian Tikey was presented with a piece of satellite insulation material developed by NASA in 1996 he recognised more than just the technological achievement of the US’s space agency – he saw potential.
THE State’s two major brick producers say they are not
concerned by BGC’s planned brickworks operation, which could be up and running
in the next couple of years.
Access to telecommunications infrastructure, particularly affordable broadband services, remains a problem for some Western Australian businesses. WA Business News brought together some of the State’s key players to discuss the issue. Alison Birrane repor
LOCAL fleet management firm Easifleet and national operator Commonwealth Fleet Lease are the big winners from new fleet management contracts announced by the State Government.
THE sales team at Channel Seven is preparing to undergo a make over that mirrors in its programming agenda, with the focus of both shifting to a younger market.
IT is fascinating to see our new economic regulator Lyndon Rowe stick up for former independent gas pipelines access regulator Ken Michael’s determination regarding pricing arrangements for the Dampier to Bunbury natural gas pipeline.
INFORMATION technology incubator Entrepreneurs in Residence (EiR) may soon be without Federal Government funding as Canberra prepares to wind down the Building on IT Strengths (BITS) incubator program.
Restaurant and cafe ‘pioneers’ Dario and Lina Cipollini are taking a little time off after the sale of Bravo’s. But only a little time, as Julie-anne Sprague reports
WITH greater demand for broadband and an increasingly technology savvy consumer base, the availability, cost, type and quality of broadband is being brought into question.
