Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s surprise announcement about this year’s federal election has been welcomed by the business community for …
Prime Minister Julia Gillard’s surprise announcement about this year’s federal election has been welcomed by the business community for …
Business groups have downplayed the Federal Government’s concession the budget is unlikely to return to surplus in 2012-13, with one group…
The Labor government hopes that the carbon tax is like the GST, so that when the sky doesn’t fall it will be accepted and everyone will …
A roundtable hosted by the Council of Small Business of Australia and The Tax Institute has prompted calls for next week’s Budget to inclu…
A roundtable hosted by the Council of Small Business Australia and the Tax Institute yesterday prompted calls for next week’s Budget to in…
SMEs have begun lobbying the Government for a change in the definition of “small business”, arguing there are too many descriptions acro…
It’s been a difficult birth but the Government’s financial planning laws have passed, albeit in a different form than originally propose…
Julia Gillard remains Prime Minister after her Caucus colleagues decisively backed her against former PM Kevin Rudd. Gillard won the le…
The Coalition is calling on independent MPs to support its push for paid parental leave to be distributed by Centrelink on behalf of busines…
Independent MP Rob Oakeshott says the Government should release its response to the Tax Forum by Christmas and has expressed surprise that a…
It is said that the saddest two words in the English language are: “What party?” But that’s not the case for the Coalition, which i…
A bill introduced to Parliament by independent member Rob Oakeshott that would allow the Government to audit private recipients of Governmen…