Joe Kelly

A small business owner will face court for allegedly paying young foreign workers in Darwin less than $5 an hour and failing to co-operate with the Fair Work Ombudsman.

While it may be hailed as the “race that stops a nation”, a new survey suggests the Melbourne Cup imposes a productivity cost of more than $1bn on the Australian economy.

For those who have long desired to make their own pizza toppings, there is a new mobile application allowing customers to design and market new pizzas while keeping a slice of the profits.

Luke Baylis is a man with good timing – eleven years ago he managed to turn his own personal quest to eat healthy and improve his lifestyle into a successful and increasingly popular Australian food chain.

The Abbott government has bypassed upper-house approval to reintroduce the twice yearly indexation of fuel excise — a measure frozen by the Howard government — in a move that will increase input costs for many small business owners.

A new mobile software platform launched this week has found a way to discern critical patterns and trends inside a business by analysing complex data and presenting it simply and clearly.

Smaller Australian food producers would benefit if government institutions, including schools and hospitals, bought locally when sourcing their food instead of favouring international suppliers.

A new study has found the number of workplace meetings is rapidly on the rise, taking up increasing amounts of time, reducing productivity and largely seen by employees to provide valueless outcomes.

Tax experts and small business advocates have urged that any increase to the rate or base of the GST be accompanied by other tax changes that will help ease the burden on SMEs.

In several years, Nahji Chu has managed to turn what began as a small kitchen based catering business into a multimillion brand spanning locations across both Melbourne and Sydney as well as gaining a foothold in the UK.