For anyone sitting back and taking note of reported metrics such as business confidence, unemployment rates, GDP growth, record real estate sales and new home builds, or looking at the share market reaching new highs, it’s hard to believe we are approaching 2 years of pandemic induced lockdowns, writes Tim Roberts, managing director of TR… Read more »
It’s dad’s special day today – so we thought we would check in with three Aussie startups to find out the best advice their father ever gave them and how they would be celebrating Father’s Day… warning: dad’ jokes ahead. Martin Herbst – CEO of JobAdder What is the best life advice that your father… Read more »
Across the country, there are thousands of people who are juggling growing their business with the needs of their family. The responsibility is huge, especially when these little people are watching every move. As they watch and learn, chances are the seeds of entrepreneurship are being sowed and the entrepreneurs of the future are in… Read more »
The Workplace Gender Equality Agency’s (WGEA) latest national gender pay gap figures saw the pay gap increase for women over the last six months to 14.2 per cent. This means Equal Pay Day 2021 will be on 31 August, marking the 61 extra days from the end of the previous financial year that women, on… Read more »
This is what I’m hearing from small business owners who have pivoted, been agile, re-imagined, and in many cases have re-mortgaged over the past 18 months, writes Amanda Newton. It’s heartbreaking to witness hope eroding as Melbourne’s lockdown 5.0 rolled quickly into lockdown 6.0, and for many small businesses, it’s seemingly harder to determine the difference between the calm… Read more »
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with marketing luminary, Seth Godin, for an episode of the Future Squared podcast. here’s what I learnt, writes Steve Glaveski. Of course, Godin needs no introduction to most of you reading this, but the TLDR of it is this – he’s the author of 19 books including titles such as… Read more »
It’s gut-wrenching to see so many small and family businesses doing it tough in Sydney, with the COVID lockdown now extended until at least the end of August, writes Australian Small and Family Business Ombudsman Bruce Billson. As a Victorian, I have seen first-hand how COVID is disproportionately impacting on too many smaller businesses, even as economic… Read more »
Australia is now over four months into its COVID vaccine rollout, and it’s still not going well, writes Stephen Duckett, Director Health Program Grattan Institute. At the six-week mark, I wrote about four ways the vaccine rollout had been bungled: the wrong pace, phasing, model, and messaging. Nearly three months on, sadly none have been… Read more »
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 »
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