Joe Kelly

Most Australian SMEs are not prepared for the switch to chip and PIN based card payments according to new research commissioned by PayPal Australia.

Woolworths’ use of a “voluntary levy” to help fund its marketing campaign featuring celebrity chef Jamie Oliver has been labeled as “very unusual” by a leading competition lawyer.

Escape rooms and cat-cafés are only two of the unusual themed businesses to hit the streets of Melbourne.

Employer groups have pushed the Fair Work Commission to modify the award system allowing more employees to cash out their annual leave by agreement.

Small business Minister Bruce Billson has announced red tape reductions to ease tax compliance costs for SMEs by up to $56 million a year.

The honey market in Australia is going through one of its toughest periods. A shortage of honey has pushed up prices, leading some companies to import produce from overseas in order to sell more cheaply on supermarket shelves. But the trend has caused confusion in the market with some imported produce being deceptively labeled. Consumers […]

The wealthy financial services industry is being targeted by emerging tech start-ups keen to take a share in the huge profits being generated in the sector. The founders of two of Australia’s most successful technology companies, SEEK and Atlassian, this week warned that the “insane” profits of the major banks (amounting to nearly $30bn per […]

The solution to tackling youth unemployment is to encourage entrepreneurship. At least that’s the mission of the G20 Young Entrepreneurs’ Alliance, convening in Sydney next month.

Have you ever left money sitting in a bank account for more than three years? If so, watch out. According to media reports, the government has seized a record $360 million from 80,000 idle bank accounts in the year to May.

The industrial umpire is officially investigating how businesses can maximise the productivity benefits of the enterprise bargaining process.