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Kevin Rudd’s draft paid parental leave bill was presented to the Senate last night, with small business is up in arms over the headaches it will create.

Potential franchisees need to embrace the free pre-entry education run by Griffith University, rather than make decisions on “gut feeling” when choosing to buy a franchise the ACCC has said.

ATO changes to family trusts will see Australian businesses subject to cost and time burdens in order to comply with two landmark rulings yesterday from the ATO effective July 1 2010.

National Australia Bank (NAB) and Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ) held secret talks in 2008 to merge, but plans were scuttled by the Federal Government The Australian reports.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has instituted legal proceedings in the Federal Court, Melbourne against Singtel Optus Pty Ltd for alleged contraventions of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in relation to the use of the word “unlimited”.

MLC is launching a series of workshops next week to help financial advisers make the transition to a fee-for-advice business model.

Fair Work Australia has increased the wages of 1.4 million award-dependent workers by $26 per week after a two year wage freeze under the previous Government’s wage-setting tribunal.

Australian gelato franchise, Trampoline Gelato, has made its way up north with the opening of not one, but two new stores in Darwin.

COSBOA have gone back to the future, announcing the re-appointment of of former Chairman Bob Stanton to head the COSBOA Board.

Job vacancies have plummeted 17.7 percent since March, falling a 13.7 per cent in May, following a 4 percent drop in April, according to the latest monthly data from IPA.

Being a business owner can be quite isolating at times and being a business owner in Australia even more so. It has always been important to me that I measure Red PR’s success not only on our competitors in Australia, but around the world.

Sydney’s workers feel they need to be earning big money to live within a reasonable distance of the CBD concludes the latest Sydney Business Chamber Citypoll.

Payroll tax and stamp duty changes are demanded in NSW’s Budget next Tuesday in order to return NSW business competitiveness and encourage employment, says accounting firm BDO.

Small business looking to manage their carbon footprint, whether competing for a government tender or greening your corporate image have a new option in Carbon Planet’s G3MS Lite software.

St.George Bank has won the Banking Website of the Year award in in Money Magazine’s 2010 Consumer Finance Awards, with the Bank also launching an iPad Internet Banking App this week.

Money Magazine has awarded National Australia Bank (NAB) the 2010 Socially Responsible Bank of the Year in the 2010 Consumer Finance Awards.

Connect2Mums AusMumpreneur Catherine Oehlman is still basking in the glory of winning the award last year and encourages all Australian businesses to nominate for the awards – and not just mums in business.

Advance copies of the new-look, relaunch issue of Dynamic Business magazine have just arrived at the office and we’re excited to say the least. It doesn’t hit the shops or your mail boxes until next week, but we want to share the joy with one lucky reader.

Metcash Limited, the the operator of IGA Supermarkets, Mitre 10 Hardware stores and Cellarbrations Liquor has posted a record profit up 12.4 percent from $227.6 million for the year.

Adobe has launched the software that helped create WIRED magazine’s June issue for the iPad as a tool any publisher can use to publish content to the iPad.