Business Advice

Australia Post has long been caught between its role as a publicly owned corporation expected to compete with private corporations and as a community service provider delivering letters, a business in terminal decline.

The Senate inquiry into the Christine Holgate affair has declared Scott Morrison, shareholder ministers and the Australia Post board should apologise to the former CEO “for denying her the legal principles of procedural fairness and natural justice”.

Small business advocates are throwing their support behind scrapping payroll tax across Australia and replacing it with an increase in GST.

If governments continue to be driven by “digital nationalism”, the US-based big tech companies are likely to continue to dominate.

Victorian Treasurer Tim Pallas has today unveiled the state's post-pandemic budget, announcing a raft of measures to support small businesses including changes to payroll tax.

Tourism businesses in regional Queensland are the focus of a new $7.5 million package aimed at attracting thousands of job seekers to take up work with grants and travel vouchers.

Small businesses are hopeful Victoria's state budget will include measures to address labour shortages and increase the payroll tax-free threshold.

CEDA has argued that the government should follow in the footsteps of countries like the US, Canada and Israel by appointing a chief technologist.

Small businesses are frustrated that the federal government is not doing more to open international borders before mid-next year.

Victorian businesses found deliberately violating the state’s COVID-19 check in rules will face a new $1,652 on-the-spot fine.

Opposition leader Anthony Albanese delivered his budget reply speech on Thursday, promising loans for young entrepreneurs, training for green industries and industrial relations reform.

Many of the budget's changes for women pale in comparison to other spending measures. But they will go some way to meeting advocates’ demands.