Posts tagged "budget for women"

According to the author, despite a government contract till 2025, the Entrepreneurship Facilitators program was scrapped in budget 2023.

Cash flow support for small businesses will come through a halving of the adjustment factor applied to Pay As You Go (PAYG) and GST instalments.

The federal government will invest $23.4 million over the next three years to help small businesses build their resilience to cyber threats by training in-house cyber experts.

Ahead of the federal budget unveiling today, vulnerable women small business owners across Australia are hoping for relief from the relentless cost of living pressures currently plaguing the entire country.

Special advice prepared by the Women’s Economic Equality Taskforce was handed to the government that focuses on six key areas.

After the previous budget was criticised, bold statements were made about women’s economic security, and this year's budget was coined a ‘budget for women’, Jo Burston says she was expecting more.

After last year’s budget was deemed “woefully inadequate” for women entrepreneurs, this year’s was a tad more supportive… but not by much.

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.