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National Australia Bank (NAB) has joined rivals Westpac and StGeorge Bank in paying employees superannuation on unpaid parental leave.

Both Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan and Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott will address the COSBOA National Small Business Summit in Brisbane this week.

A wave of fraudulent emails purporting to be from the Australian Government are in circulation currently, reportedly concerning Tax Refunds and the end of financial year.

Accountants remain the trusted advisers to Australian small business with almost 70 percent of business owners claiming they would consult their accountant on business decisions.

Ray White CBD Residential has acquired inner city rental business Marshall of Brisbane CBD Pty Ltd, expanding its foothold in the inner city residential rental market.

Job ads grew by 2.7 percent in June, following an increase of 2.7 percent in May according to the latest data in the ANZ Job Advertisements Series.

Businesses that use Apple’s iPhone are warned they might encounter trouble with their exchange servers once updating their iPhone’s to the latest iOS4.0 operating system.

Melbourne Medical Deputising Service (MMDS) has won the top honours in the 2010 Telstra Victorian Business Awards.

The services sector continues to contract, with a fall in new orders and decreasing selling prices keeping the services sector in negative territory in the June Performance of Services Index.

Female, baby boomer with a supply of working capital and a coffee machine – that’s the profile of a hospitality success story, according to a new industry index.

The Australian job market has stagnated in June after rebounding 5.47 percent in May, according to the latest Advantage Job Index online job ads figures.

Resources Minister Martin Ferguson will meet with second-tier mining company executives today to discuss the federal government’s Minerals Resource Rent Tax.

New figures released by the ABS indicate that the number of Australian retail sales rose again in May, marking the industry’s third consecutive monthly gain.

Ok last week, apparently I wrote a terrible blog! Terrible in the way it was written and for many people offensive. And while I tried to dig myself out of a hole, it didn’t seem to help.

Australia’s Minerals Resource Rent Tax compromise is positive news for big miners but it comes at a price for the wider business community.

Confusion among retailers is at an all time high with first phase of the modern award wages for retailers starting yesterday.

The new financial year will see a dramatic price hike in the electricity bills of all Queensland businesses, with a 13.29 percent increase in electricity costs.

Clive Peeters, the beleaguered whitegoods and electrical retailer has been bought by Harvey Norman Holdings Limited through liquidator PPB for $55 million.

UXC Connect has announced the appointment of Iggy Pintado to the newly created role of Director of Marketing, Sustainability and Innovation.

With BHP Billiton, Rio Tinto and Xstrata forcing Julia Gillard to bend to their RSPT demands, the Government will halve proposed Company Tax for business.