Cara Waters
Making money in my activewear
Cara Waters Meet the entrepreneurs making millions from our love for wearing yoga pants to do do everything but yoga in.
How Yellow Octopus fell into a Google black hole
![Small businesses beware. Google can hijack your profitability by blacklisting your company if your SEO is found wanting.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/11/7076514/Thumbnail1003713456ghs1alimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gll29c.png1449801485758.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Small businesses beware. Google can hijack your profitability by blacklisting your company if your SEO is found wanting.
Have we reached peak yoga with cat yoga?
![Perth yoga studio Yoga Vine held cat yoga classes to raise money for charity.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/11/7075779/Thumbnail1003692938gll0tyimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glkmfe.png1449805408494.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters There's humming yoga, hip-hop yoga and now one Sydney yoga studio is offering cat yoga.
Kelly O'Dwyer says Turnbull's cabinet can be 'brutal'
![Kelly O'Dwyer Minister for Small Business and Assistant Treasurer says cabinet meetings are longer now more women are involved. Photo: Josh Robenstone](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/08/7068224/Thumbnail1003568813gjvc8aimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glhynh.png1449600139016.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters The increased number of women has changed the way cabinet is operating according to Kelly O'Dwyer.
Innovation Statement from Malcolm Turnbull 'vague', say small business
![Bastion Cycles co-owner Ben Schultz uses 3D bike printing in his business.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/07/7066170/Thumbnail1003545785glhd7vimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glhgvt.png1449525982907.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters A 3D bike-printing business is the sort of business the Prime Minister's Innovation Statement should be aimed at.
The one key measure of innovation Aussie businesses are failing to meet
![Yummia founder Mia McCarthy has built her business on innovation.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/04/7060485/Thumbnail1003449138glfoicimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glfeb6.png1449262007968.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Australian small businesses are lagging well behind their Asia-Pacific competitors when it comes to innovation.
High Court finds Quest engaged in sham contracting 'mischief'
![Quest tried to](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/03/7055725/Thumbnail1003385786zqygtimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gle1fe.png1449113622606.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Accommodation provider treated cleaners as independent contractors in bid to get around sham contracting laws, court says.
Fair Work Commission backs employer that sacked worker for being too fat
![Ranui Parahi's weight exceeded the maximum allowed on a forklift.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/01/7051271/Thumbnail100329543311eloiimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.glc3pl.png1449001518675.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Fair Work Commission finds obese worker fairly dismissed because his weight created a workplace safety issue.
How much tax do tradies pay?
Cara Waters Is research on the income of self-employed tradies' flawed because it is "notoriously understated"?
Busting into the beauty industry
![Evette Hess, co-founder of Poni Cosmetics.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/12/03/7057548/Thumbnail1003194443gleacjimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl9xsb.png1449430316386.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Female run start-ups are building million dollar businesses.
Independent winemakers accuse supermarkets of causing 'confusion in marketplace' with murky labeling
![Rollo Crittenden is a winemaker at the Crittenden winery, a small family-owned business in Dromana on the Mornington Peninsula.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/26/7040240/Thumbnail1002663344gl3zq4image.related.thumbnail.320x214.gkyjzk.png1448507810354.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Is that bottle of wine from a small independent winery or is it really a Coles or Woolworths home brand?
Domestic violence victim told 'keeping you both in the office is a no'
![The Fair Work Commission found the alleged victim of domestic violence was further victimised.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/27/7042575/Thumbnail1003151889gl90ycimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl90y9.png1448771188103.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters What do you do if both the alleged perpetrator and victim of domestic violence work in the same office? This business sacked the victim.
Why Boots snapped up Rhinomed's anti-snoring device
![Michael Johnson, chief executive of Rhinomed.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/26/7041475/Thumbnail1003146602gl94gqimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl8wve.png1448571857213.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Aussie business Rhinomed, which makes anti-snoring products, has got its products stocked in Boots pharmacies throughout the UK.
Former small business minister Bruce Billson reveals why he quit politics
![Bruce Billson says he wasn't pushed.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/24/7035846/Thumbnail1003062714ghamspimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl7456.png1448397542593.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Former small business minister Bruce Billson says he wasn't pushed to leave politics but the timing of his departure was Malcolm Turnbull's choice.
How much do tradies really earn?
![Marcelle Bagu earns more as a self-employed tradie than she did as a political adviser.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/24/7035427/Thumbnail1003052463gl6v9bimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl6w8f.png1448391373637.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Do tradies earn the "big money" or are you better off having a university education?
Government 'squibs' small business on competition review
![Peter Strong, chief executive of the Council of Small Business of Australia, is disappointed but relieved there is still hope for reform.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/24/7035344/Thumbnail1003042350gk276ximage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl6ofi.png1448347943482.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters The government has put the effects test off and abandoned other key reforms recommended by the Harper Review.
Five things you need to know about the Harper Review
Cara Waters The government is backing many of the Harper Review's recommendations but has put the effects test on the back burner.
Former small business minister Bruce Billson quits politics
![Former small business minister Bruce Billson will not contest his seat at the next election.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/24/7033583/Thumbnail1003022541ghaib6image.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl6959.png1448324688574.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters Small business community quick to mourn man who has "many fans and few enemies".
Watchdog dismisses domestic violence complaint against ad
![The advertisement has been accused of condoning domestic violence.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/24/7033265/Thumbnail1003017845gl666kimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl65it.png1448323347415.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters The advertising watchdog has dismissed complaints an advertisement for ADT Security promotes and trivialises domestic violence.
Rozibaby prams in liquidation amid currency volatility
![Rozibaby founders Tahir Baig and Rosh Ghadamian.](http://web.archive.org./web/20151211051244im_/http://images.theage.com.au/2015/11/23/7031467/Thumbnail1002981089gl5ebsimage.related.thumbnail.320x214.gl5d5t.png1448248203796.jpg-90x60.jpg)
Cara Waters A customised pram-making business founded by Melburnians Rosh Ghadamian and Tahir Baig three years ago has collapsed into liquidation.