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The Fair Work Commission has abolished junior pay rates for workers aged 18 and over in retail, fast food and pharmacy. 

Buying AI tools was the easy part. Capturing the return is where most small businesses are falling short. Here is the practical fix.

The RBA has banned card surcharging from 1 October 2026. COSBOA says removing surcharges before fees actually drop risks pushing more cost onto small businesses.

Slashing supplier costs without strategy creates fragility. Proxima’s Gemma Thompson explains what works instead.

The NSW Government’s latest procurement figures have good news for small business owners who know where to look.

The Albanese Government is introducing new fuel security powers next week to address regional shortages hitting farmers and small businesses. 

Three quarters of job listings mentioning AI are for non-technical roles like customer service, marketing and accounting.

Xero and Anthropic have announced a multi-year partnership that brings Claude’s AI directly into Xero. 

Australia sent its strongest ever AI and education delegation to India this year. We break down what it means for Australian businesses.

Fuel, wages, insurance, energy. The costs keep stacking up. COSBOA is warning that more cost pressure risks pushing a fragile situation over the edge.

Dext CEO Sabby Gill explains what the next stage of automation looks like for small businesses.

OpenAI has shut down Sora, its AI video generation app, just months after it topped the App Store charts. 

From fuel costs to borrowing pressure, Australian small businesses are being squeezed on every front. Oliver Hume Chief Economist Matt Bell unpacks the numbers behind the pain.

When fuel costs rise, everything else follows. COSBOA’s Skye Cappuccio says small businesses are resilient, but they cannot absorb sustained cost increases indefinitely.

Generic emails are getting ignored faster than ever. Here is what personalised outreach actually looks like in 2026, and how any SME owner can do it.

Meta has 250 million small businesses on its platforms. Now Zuckerberg is making them a company-wide priority. 

Australian fintech Prospa has partnered with Qantas Business Rewards, letting eligible SMEs earn up to 500,000 points per loan.

A new RMIT and Deloitte report puts a dollar figure on low AI literacy in Australia. We unpack the numbers that should have every SME operator paying attention.

If you’ve been running your business for years without AI, you’re not alone. But study finds the data behind that choice is harder to ignore than most operators think.

Small businesses lost an average of $15,257 last financial year due to late payments, according to Xero. Now Payday Super is coming and late payments could force them to miss the deadline.