Budget 2022: Ten key policies in the budget for small businesses — and five things that are missing
Here are the small business measures included in Labor's 2022 federal budget, and five that are missing.
Budget 2022: Hospitality owners call for urgent action as staff shortages replace lockdowns as number one challenge
Restaurant owners want next week's federal budget to address staff availability and the punishing cost of doing business, six months after pledges in the last budget left one small trader feeling like a "tool" in an election campaign.
Restaurant industry hails NSW Dine & Discover scheme on its final day, but says focus must now turn to staff shortage crisis
The Dine & Discover voucher scheme, which afforded NSW residents with six $25 vouchers for use at registered hospitality venues and tourism businesses, officially ends today.
As the government’s final pre-budget pledges roll in, the ACCI says a $365 million boost to apprentice numbers is hardly enough
ACCI has criticised a proposed three-month extension to the federal government's apprentice wage subsidy scheme, saying the program should be extended by no less than two years.
Coffee shop hires three employees with wage subsidy
Chris Choong describes his business as a community, where “we know all our customers, we just call them by name”. And that community is growing bigger and better thanks to the Jobs Victoria Fund wage subsidy.
A 95% childcare subsidy would boost GDP by up to $7.4 billion annually, KPMG says
Increasing the federal government’s childcare subsidy to a nearly fully funded 95% would boost GDP by up to $7.4 billion per year, at a cost of $5.4 billion a year, according to KPMG.
