Posts tagged "australia day"

Grace Brennan, founder of the #buyfromthebush campaign to help promote drought-stricken businesses, has become the first woman from regional Australia to deliver the Australia Day address.

In January we experienced two public debates that reinforced the essential equation when influencing people to change behaviour.

Many Aussie businesses are taking part in the "Change it Ourselves" movement, to push for a change to the date we celebrate Australia Day.

Here are the rates you will be required to pay workers in these industries on the 2019 Australia Day public holiday, as per the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Roughly 200,000 Australian workers have sickies on Australia Day and other public holidays, so what can and should employers do?

This Friday marks the first nation-wide public holiday for 2018, with workers in all states entitled to January 26 as a holiday and all empl…

By John Nelder and Emma Koehn. 

As millions of Aussies prepare to fire up the barbie ahead of Australia Day, there’s a growing band of b…

It’s two weeks until Australia Day, which means it’s time for Meat and Livestock Australia’s all-singing, all-dancing plea for the country t…

“Chucking a sickie” might be accepted Australian slang, but with Australia Day fast approaching experts warn business owners to prepare no…

By Luke Henriques Gomes

It’s the battle for Australian hearts, minds and meats.

An advertising war has broken out in the lead-up t…

  A cafe on the New South Wales south coast has been slammed online after erecting a sign saying it would be open on “National Dickhead D…

  You don’t have to search far and wide to learn that Australia is home to a wide range of inventions that have saved lives or simply …