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The Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) has today announced a new national campaign focusing on Australian construction businesses.

Tony Abbott has unveiled his new $400 million policy blueprint to bolster industry performance, enhance competition, drive business innovation and better harness the commercial and economic potential of the scientific and research community.

The Australian Taxation Office is reminding employers to begin embracing SuperStream, the Government’s new method of transacting linked data and payments for superannuation.

Australian business confidence is at its lowest since just before last year’s federal election, according to figures released from the National Australia Bank today.

Naked Wines Australia, Australia’s only wine company backed by crowdfunding, has become the country’s fastest growing online wine retailer.

The City of Sydney is exploring how small business and communities are using technology as a tool for positive social change. “Gigabytes and Giving Back: Using technology for social good”, taking place this evening, is to feature a panel of experts discussing the social good that can be delivered when government, foundations, individuals and business […]

Competition tsar Rod Sims has informed SMEs they should expect an annual cost saving on their energy usage arising from the carbon tax repeal of between five and ten per cent

An ASIC report has been analysed by commercial credit reporting bureau CreditorWatch, and the findings have identified key learnings that may benefit SMEs and business owners.

A Perth businesswoman who was last year subject to a record financial penalty arising from a Fair Work Ombudsman litigation will again face court over allegations she has continued to exploit and underpay foreign workers.

Australian retailers are facing higher costs than those in the UK and US, according to a report released by the Productivity Commission today.

37 per cent of SMEs are dissatisfied with the level of Government support they are receiving, according to findings revealed in the September 2014 MYOB Business Monitor Report.

Users of Australian Bureau of Statistics data may be required to pay for access after Treasurer Joe Hockey raised concerns about the Bureau’s funding after it owned up to errors in its calculation of monthly jobs figures.

Over two million Australian small businesses are positioned to benefit from growing global trade with online sales to foreign buyers forecast to triple to $16.1bn by 2018.

Not-for-profit StartupAUS today announced the return of the Startup Spring Festival, a festival of events and activities that aim to celebrate, promote and encourage the startup community.

The IMF has assumed Australia’s unemployment rate to be the second highest in the Asia Pacific region over the next two years as it cut growth forecasts and raised the likelihood of global recession from 20 to 33 per cent.

Australians downloaded approximately one exabyte (one million terabytes) of data via broadband in the three months leading to June, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).

The government has retreated from its proposal that unemployed people apply for 40 jobs per month in order to receive the dole following widespread concern small businesses would suffer under the additional administrative burden.

New findings have revealed that two in five small and medium enterprises (SMEs) will not employ someone with a mental illness.

Melbourne has become one of the world’s first cities to acquire its own domain address.

Supermarket giant Coles has agreed to fork-out more than $200,000 in back-pay for ten trolley collectors, conceding its employment practices were vulnerable to exploitation and underpayment.