Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson highlight why more Aussies are flocking to support Australian Made and how your business can benefit. It’s been a bit of a roller-coaster ride for small businesses over the past month. The highs felt at the beginning of the month with the Budget measures designed to… Read more »
As Zoho clocks up a quarter of a century in business, Chief Strategy Officer Vijay Sundaram shares his reflections and advice for the next generation of entrepreneurs. Starting a business is a daunting task; one which requires courage, drive and tenacity. In Australia, almost 1,000 companies are founded every day but 20% fail in their… Read more »
National capability — and you might also say, national character — can be revealed in a crisis. So, what has COVID-19 taught us about Australia? It has taught us, amid many examples of failed leadership across the world, that Australia possesses a strong capacity for effective action in times of need. Our leaders and people… Read more »
It was a small thing but a revealing moment during Scott Morrison’s Wednesday interview on Nine’s Today show. Presenter Karl Stefanovic noticed Morrison seemed out of sorts, despite the government having delivered the night before a benign budget that was well received and likely to be popular. “It is a very big budget. Josh Frydenberg… Read more »
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg calls this a “pandemic budget” – one to sustain the economy in times that are still uncertain – but it also has a substantial element of an election budget. That’s not to suggest Prime Minister Scott Morrison will rush to the polls this year. But given the election has to be held… Read more »
What in America they call the State of the Union, in Australia we call the federal budget. As surprising as it may seem, Australian budgets aren’t really about money — they’re about values. As a case in point, a key part of next week’s budget will be an announcement about childcare, but the childcare measures… Read more »
Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will deliver the 2021-22 Federal Budget next Tuesday, 11 May. It’s been a massive year for the Australian economy, with the country currently experiencing the highest net operating deficit in history (in the hundreds of billions) and the nation’s small business landscape experiencing the greatest impact of all. The vast majority (over… Read more »
It’s hard to believe that just over a year ago, the word ‘pandemic’ had barely entered our collective vocabulary. Since then, COVID-19 has changed the way we live and work for good. For small business owners, 2020 was a test of resilience, yet they pulled themselves up by the bootstraps to survive (and even thrive)… Read more »
“People don’t change jobs, they change leaders,” says Stephen Scott. And with a career spanning two decades’ in leadership roles at the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) before dedicating his life to consulting and writing about leadership best practice, he’s seen it many times before. And we’re not just talking about the need for a… Read more »
Menulog, Australia’s second-largest food ordering and delivery platform, has declared it will break with the standard “gig platform” business model and engage some of its couriers as employees, not independent contractors. “We owe it to our couriers,” Menulog’s managing director Morten Belling told the Senate Select Committee inquiry into job security this week. The inquiry… Read more »
The spotlight is once again on bullying and unfair treatment at work. Former Australia Post CEO, Christine Holgate, this week said she had been “bullied out of my job […] humiliated and driven to despair.” She described her treatment by the prime minister as “one of the worst acts of bullying I’ve ever witnessed.” Soon… Read more »
As JobKeeper ends, it’s time for government and tech to step up on small business digitisation writes Lars Leber, VP and Country Manager, Intuit QuickBooks Australia. Last week brought an end to the JobKeeper scheme. The year-long wage subsidy supported over one million Australian businesses and carried many that otherwise would have closed during the… Read more »
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