Tag: Barry O'Farrell

An estimated 200,000 employers across New South Wales are set to benefit from a cut to WorkCover premiums, now that the scheme has returned to surplus.

New South Wales’ first Small Business Commissioner will tour regional areas of the state this month, to meet with small business owners and operators and learn how she can advocate on their behalf.

New South Wales Treasurer Mike Baird has unveiled his first budget, delivering a deficit of $718 million in 2011/12 and promising to return the budget to surplus in 2012/13. But what does it hold for businesses?

NSW Minister for Small Business Katrina Hodgkinson has appointed Yasmin King, renowned business consultant and negotiator, as the state’s first Small Business Commissioner.

NSW Labor under the leadership of Premier Kristina Keneally is polling worse than when former Premier Nathan Rees was pushed from the job in December last year.

NSW Labor’s Kristina Keneally is dominating the Liberal’s Barry O’Farrell as preferred premier for the state, but seems destined to be a popular leader of a losing party if the latest Newspoll numbers hold true.