Rod Sims: A competition saint for small and all
You might get the impression that I think Rod Sims did a pretty good job. Well you’d be wrong — he has done an amazing job, writes Peter Strong.
In the world of Australian small business 2017 was a year of consolidation of past gains and preparation for the changes that confront us in…
By Emma Koehn and Dominic Powell
Australian businesses are set to see the rollout of new competition laws after the Senate passed the lon…
The Office of the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO) is 12 months old. It actually turned one on 11 March bu…
Treasurer Scott Morrison will seek to add an amendment to the government’s effects test legislation today that will remove the “mandatory fa…
Legislation to introduce an effects test into Australian competition law made its way into the House of Representatives on parliament’s la…
Australia is one step closer to seeing an effects test introduced into competition law, with the government today releasing a draft bill to …
By Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
The Productivity Commission has condemned government plans for an “effects test” that wo…
Australia’s new small business minister says his top priorities are ensuring the effects test becomes law and government gets “out of the w…
By Lindy Edwards, UNSW Australia
As Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull turns to the task of governing Australia he faces a devilishly diffi…
It couldn’t have been a more eventful week before the federal election.
Britain deciding to leave the European Union, a terrorist attac…
By Rob Nicholls, UNSW Australia
Controversy has courted the Australian banking, finance and the business sectors throughout the election…
