Posts tagged "report"

Hybrid working promises the best of in-person collaboration and remote efficiency, but businesses that get the back-to-office transition wrong could sideline their most effective staff, says Diversity Council of Australia CEO Lisa Annese.

At least 150 ATO officials have been investigated as part of a massive GST fraud crackdown, resulting in criminal proceedings and employment terminations, according to a bombshell report from the Auditor-General.

Angel investors and startup founders are signing a new petition urging the federal government not to increase the asset limit test for 'sophisticated investors', claiming major changes could limit funding to Australia's most innovative early-stage startups.

Victoria's startup scene has broken the $100 billion valuation barrier, but more work must be done to ensure early-stage startups have access to the capital they need, according to a new report from LaunchVic and analytics firm Dealroom.

The number of small businesses turning to the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman for assistance with insolvencies spiked in the September quarter, revealing how corporate collapses are leaving local traders grasping for help.

The federal government says the small business exemption to the Privacy Act, covering some 2.3 million enterprises, should end.

Small businesses have been given some breathing room before the next tranche of industrial relations reforms become law, after the Senate voted push a report on the Albanese government's 'Closing Loopholes' bill into 2024.

It was meant to slash costs and complexity for Australian businesses. Instead, the federal government has scrapped the Modernising Business Registers program, owing to billion-dollar blowouts, crushing delays, and a significant underestimation of the task at hand.

Australia is getting older, the tax base is changing, but there are opportunities to boost productivity, the Intergenerational Report says.

A key system connecting the private sector to lucrative government contracts operates as a "protection racket" to the detriment of small and medium businesses, a new parliamentary committee report says.

Birchal has released its annual crowdsourced funding report. Like most Australian funding, its been impacted by the current economic climate. But it has still seen some record-breaking positive numbers.

Block, the American fintech giant which acquired Afterpay in a $39 billion deal, has "misled" investors on key business metrics and "embraced predatory offerings", according to a new report from infamous shortsellers Hindenburg Research.