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VET funding model flawed – Murphy
There has been a significant decline in student enrolment and completion of institutional-based training courses, with only 16 per cent of IBT students completing their courses in 2007, according to an auditor general report.
Special Report: Sharpening focus
3 Our annual review of WA’s biggest employers finds many redrawing their plans. locked
Snowden pair goes in Singlefile
4 ONCE the most energetic and successful married couple in global mining, Phil and Viv Snowden have re-emerged after 18 months with plans to take on a new industry - wine. locked
Meeting the needs of mining communities
1 IN her doctorate on the impact of fly in, fly out (FIFO) on workers, the University of Western Australia's Susan Clifford has found that FIFO is not having the deleterious effect the tabloid headlines would have us believe. locked
Under –promise, over deliver
2 THE man behind the concepts of Cino to Go, Luxe Bar, Bar One and The Brisbane Hotel, Geoff Hayward, has been very quiet in the past year, but he says the radar is ready to be turned back on in 2009. locked

Report counts the cost of desalination
PERTH company AgritechSmart-Water has commissioned an economic review of its plans to use Wellington Dam as a major new source of water for the South West.
Property

Picking the bottom a tough call
Picking the bottom a tough call CALLING the bottom in any bust cycle is always highly contentious, even more so in the context of the current global economic crisis. locked


Opinion

Uranium, GM moves welcomed
Uranium, GM moves welcomed WHO remembers the final week of the 2008 state election campaign, when then premier Alan Carpenter ran an increasingly desperate and almost bizarre scare campaign? Every waking moment he told voters about the supposed dangers posed by uranium mining, nucl locked


Trade Opportunities

Curtin expands with Singapore campus
Curtin expands with Singapore campus CURTIN University of Technology has opened its second overseas campus in nine years, with the launch of its Singapore site last week. locked


Food & Wine

Bites
WESTERN Australia's South West has expanded its offering for foodies of all kinds this summer. locked


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