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How can SMEs protect their business without an HR department?
Fair Work Commission lodgements rose 10 per cent in 2024-25, writes BrightHR’s Mollie Eckersley
Regional small businesses are absorbing pressures no single owner can fix,
Fuel costs, housing shortages and hiring struggles are converging on regional Australia, according to a new COSBOA and CommBank-backed report.
June business registrations top 43K as EOFY boosts startups
Lawpath CMO Tom Willis says Australians are still backing themselves, but with more structure and planning than before.
One in four small business employees say their pay is not keeping up with costs
One in four workers at businesses with under 20 employees say their pay is not keeping up with living costs, more than double the rate at larger companies
If someone is offering you a single fix for your financial stress, walk away. Six peak bodies on finding real advice
ABRT Chair Eddie Griffith has a message for small business owners under pressure: if someone is offering you a single product as the fix to your financial stress, that is not advice, it is a sales pitch.
Word of mouth still beats social media for small business discovery. Here is what the data shows
Word of mouth is still the most powerful marketing tool a small business has. New CommBank data shows it beats social media, local markets and every other channel for discovery.
Australian small businesses outperformed the US, UK, Canada and New Zealand in Q1
Australian small business sales rose 7.2% year-on-year in Q1 2026, despite back-to-back rate hikes and a fuel crisis, Xero data shows.