Tips & Advice For Small Businesses in Australia

Bernard Salt says Australia looks flat-footed in comparison to the United States.

Salt warns Australia lacks entrepreneurial spirit

Cara Waters
1 hr ago

Australians are not entrepreneurial or enterprising and fail to demonstrate initiative, according to demographer Bernard Salt.

Victims of cyberbullying have higher levels of depression and social anxiety, lower rates of self-esteem and feel more alone.

Cyberbullying: adults are worse than children

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James Adonis

Cyberbullying is estimated to happen to at least one in 10 Australians.

Lucas Papaw, Blackmores and Bundaberg Ginger Beer

How three family-run Australian brands became global businesses

Rachel Clun

A phone call from a make-up artist on McLeod's Daughters changed the fate of Lucas' Papaw Ointment.

"Living in Australia, you are leading this opportunity more than anybody else": Chobani founder and CEO Hamdi Ulukaya.

'Gold mine': Billionaire yoghurt maker backs Australian food

Patrick Hatch

Australians are in the prime position to make food and brands that will resonate around the world, the founder of American yoghurt success story Chobani says.

Ombudsman Kate Carnell says the banks' action on unfair contracts has been a long time coming.

More to be done on unfair contracts by banks

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Kate Carnell

A $5 million threshold makes much more sense.

Bill Shorten explains his trusts policy at the Vodafone National Small Business Summit last week.

Small business trusts face 63 per cent tax rate under Labor

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Max Newnham

A 30 per cent tax rate on income earned by family discretionary trusts could mean distributed income is taxed at 63 per cent.

All businesses will be banned from imposing excessive credit card surcharges from September 1.

Small businesses face fines for 'excessive' credit card surcharges from Friday

Clancy Yeates

Small business owners risk being fined thousands of dollars if they are caught slapping excessive surcharges on credit card and debit card payments from this Friday.

The shopping centre assault on local strip malls has gone up a notch this year.

Do we want shopping centres to be de-facto town centres?

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Tony Featherstone

The trend is allowing giant malls to rip the character from suburbs.

Wade Tink is the founder of social enterprise Project Everest.

The million-dollar social enterprise

Alexandra Cain

Project Everest is growing fast as it aims to build sustainable commercial solutions to community problems in developing areas.

A river of red wine has been dumped in the streets of Languedoc.

Wine war in southern France has streets running red

Liz Alderman

Independent wine producers in France are being pitted against imports from other European Union countries.

Adam McAsey, the founder of 8 Degree Projects which operates hospitality venues in Bali, says he loves island life.

Bali born but going global

Cara Waters

Building an international business from Bali rather than a surf break.

Bill Shorten said while Labor backed the tax cut for businesses with turnover below $2 million, the tax cut for bigger ...

Shorten says Labor not targeting small business on trusts

Cara Waters

Opposition Leader Bill Shorten wants to co-operate with small business.

Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell says there is support available for small businesses to export.

How the government can help fund your exports

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Kate Carnell

For some small businesses the perception can be that it's too hard to export, but they should know there is support available.

Sorry, we don't take Amex? You may not hear this so much anymore after the company has cut its fees for small merchants.

American Express cuts fees for small businesses

Clancy Yeates

American Express is cutting the fees it charges small businesses by up to 1 percentage point under an aggressive expansion plan aimed at doubling its Australian footprint in two years.