| Date | Title | Description |
| 05.11.2024 | Australian shoppers brace for record Black Friday sales | Australian shoppers are preparing for what is predicted to be a record-breaking Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping season, while cybersecurity concerns surrounding online scams loom large.
Consumers are expected to spend over AUD $69.7 ... |
| 01.11.2024 | Australia Post's Shift: A New Era for Small Business Licensees | Australia Post is at a crossroads. The government-owned postal service has decided to dissolve its long-standing advisory board for small business licensees, the Australia Post Licensee Advisory Council (APLAC). This move, while framed as a... |
| 01.11.2024 | Australia Post liquidates small business advisory board as licensees face downturn | Source: AAP Image/ James Ross article-article-body
Australia Post is changing the way it negotiates with its small business licensees, after quietly liquidating the advisory forum it has used for more than 20 years.
The government-owned pos... |
| 31.10.2024 | With the rising cost of living pressures, Aussies embrace e-com for wedding planning through retails like SHEIN. | SYDNEY, Oct. 31, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- As wedding preparation surges in Australia, customers are exploring trending wedding items through online marketplaces such as SHEIN, indicating that while your wedding day may be one of the most import... |
| 21.10.2024 | 3G shutdown: Less than one week left for small businesses to upgrade phones and devices | Source: Unsplash/Poster Pos. article-article-body
Australian small businesses have less than a week to retire their 3G devices before the network shuts down, or risk losing connection to vital workplace technology.
How this Australian-made ... |
| 18.10.2024 | Brewing Success: Australia Post's Bold Move to Support Small Businesses | In a world where small businesses often feel like ships lost at sea, Australia Post has thrown them a lifeline. This holiday season, the national mail carrier is not just delivering parcels; it’s delivering hope—one cup of coffee at a time.... |
| 17.10.2024 | Never accept ‘no’: Madmia’s colourful journey from a one-woman show to $15 million in revenue | Madmia's Tanja Filipovska. Source: Supplied, Facebook/Madmia. article-article-body
Perhaps the most famous quote from the Disney character Stitch is “Ohana means family, and family means nobody gets left behind”, but for Tanja Filipovska, S... |
| 15.10.2024 | Australia Post’s latest ‘pick-me-up’ service gives small business owners a coffee fix | Source: Australia Post. article-article-body
Australia Post will deliver millions of parcels across the country this holiday season, but the mail carrier has also launched a ‘pick-me-up’ service of an entirely different nature.
Throughout O... |
| 18.09.2024 | Microsoft launches AI Academy for Australasian organisations | Microsoft has announced the broad availability of its AI Academy in Australia and New Zealand, aiming to help organisations enhance their AI capabilities and accelerate AI adoption across the workforce. The program supports both technical p... |
| 10.09.2024 | EY getting set to shift its office in Melbourne after six-year wait | Big Four professional services firm Ernst & Young is preparing to move its Melbourne branch to the east end of Bourke Street, shifting from its current Exhibition base of almost twenty years.
According to industry reports, Ernst & Y... |
| 16.07.2024 | Online spending grows by 2% despite cost of living squeeze | Source: Unsplash. article-article-body
Online retail therapy is still booming despite the cost of living crisis putting pressure on Australian wallets.
Even with inflation leading to more expensive groceries, interest rates remaining high a... |
| 04.07.2024 | Peter Marelas appointed as New Relic Field CTO for APJ | New Relic has announced the appointment of Peter Marelas as the Field Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) region. Marelas, who previously served as the Chief Architect for APJ at New Relic, will take on this ... |
| 02.07.2024 | Better connectivity for smarter transport | A patchwork of technologies will no longer cut it in the transportation industry. You can’t simply add boxes and services in an ad-hoc way and expect to get your goods and people where they need to be, when they need to be there. A holistic... |
| 13.06.2024 | “Struggling to remain viable”: Petition calls for licensed post offices to provide more services, not less | A post office in Kemps Creek in Sydney, Monday, Oct. 2, 2017. Source: AAP Image/Brendan Esposito article-article-body
Licensed post offices across Australia are “struggling to remain viable”, a new petition says, arguing restrictions on the... |
| 17.05.2024 | Digital ID laws finally pass Australian parliament | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
After a long battle, Digital ID laws have finally passed the Australian parliament. This move aims to dampen the oversharing of personal information in order to enhance privacy protections in a lands... |
| 06.05.2024 | Newcastle newsagency files for liquidation after failed battle to retain Aus Post license | The Lambton Nextra, which operated as a Licenses Post Office until May 1. Source: Facebook article-article-body
A Newcastle licensed post office that fought to keep its doors open has entered liquidation, as Australia Post champions reforms... |
| 03.05.2024 | PwC launches new strategy alongside fresh board appointments | Profile PwC
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Professional services firm PwC has launched a new three-year strategy for Australia in its bid to get back on track, including via the appointment of six new members to its governance board.
The fi... |
| 29.04.2024 | 2024 is the year of ‘ugly’ content. Here’s how your business can benefit | Victoria Obieglo of The Digital Picnic. Source: Supplied. article-article-body
In digital marketing, we’re witnessing a shift towards a more engaging style of content. It’s raw, authentic, and strategically blends brand alignment with enter... |
| 12.04.2024 | It’s official: Australia Post will now deliver your letters every second day | article-article-body
Australia Post will take longer to deliver letters under new performance standards agreed with the federal government recognising its growing role in parcels.
From Monday, letters will be delivered every second day inst... |
| 04.04.2024 | ‘Won’t pretend to have all the answers’: New ATO chief pledges to listen to SMEs | Australian Taxation Office Commissioner Rob Heferen. Source: Supplied article-article-body
New Commissioner of Taxation Rob Heferen has introduced himself to the small business community with humility, using a conference to admit he has muc... |
| 22.03.2024 | Odoo and Starshipit Revolutionise Shipping Processes | GOLD COAST, Australia, March 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Business management software firm Odoo announces partnership with Starshipit, a shipping and fulfilment platform serving customers in Australia and New Zealand. This partnership aims to ... |
| 21.03.2024 | Fifo Capital CEO says too many SMEs miss out on support measures | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
Australian small businesses have not been supported through economic turmoil in the way they should have been, Fifo Capital CEO Wayne Morris says, as robust interest rates and the cost of doing busin... |
| 19.03.2024 | Singapore Post completes strategic review; group to be reorganised into three business units | SINGAPORE: Singapore Post on Tuesday (Mar 19) announced the completion of its strategic review, adding that the group will be reorganised into three business units.
The three business units of Singapore, Australia and International will be ... |
| 19.03.2024 | Sendle renews push to open up Australia Post’s network to competitors | Sendle co-founder and CEO James Chin-Moody. Source: supplied. article-article-body
Australian entrepreneur James Chin Moody loves to make curry, but he won’t settle for any old supermarket spice.
“We get our curry powder sent from Humpty Do... |
| 18.03.2024 | $63 billion online spend: Australian basket sizes shrink but purchase frequency up | Online shopping. Source: Unsplash. article-article-body
The average value of an online shopping basket fell in 2023, but spending is still clustered around the magic $100 ‘free shipping’ mark, according to e-commerce data from Australia Pos... |
| 18.05.2023 | Australia Post Announces $100 Million Sustainability Bond | Listen to this story:
Australia Post announced it has successfully priced its first-ever sustainability bond, focused on both environmental and social projects. The 6-year $100 million bond was priced on 15 May 2023 and was significantly ov... |
| 25.11.2022 | Australia Post brings forward Christmas cut-off dates for WA and NT due to floods and rail disruption | Source: Australia Post
Small businesses on the east coast are advising customers to get their orders in if they want to send gifts to friends and family in Western Australia, after Australia Post brought forward the cut-off date for deliver... |
| 23.08.2022 | The countdown is on – is your business .au ready? | Australian domain names are getting a shake-up with the launch of the new, shorter .au domain name extension, writes Tamara Oppen, Managing Director at GoDaddy Australia. Local businesses are being urged to make sure they are .au ready.
For... |
| 16.08.2022 | Australia Post parcel shipping will become more expensive next month as fuel costs hit logistics providers nationwide | Small businesses will soon pay more to send their goods via Australia Post, as the service gears up to increase the cost of parcels, shipping bags, and other prepaid products.
Australia Post quietly announced a price hike earlier this month... |
| 15.08.2022 | How to find the balance between digital and in-store services to maximise sales | Source: Unsplash/Kentaro Toma.
Today’s shoppers desire flexibility, convenience and personalisation at every stage of their purchasing journeys. With shoppers increasingly mixing online and in-store shopping experiences, now is the time for... |
| 22.06.2022 | Australia Post unveils 57 Local Business Heroes with “unique” connection to their communities | Joshua and Lindsay Pringle from Keep Tassie Wild. Source: supplied.
A family business that makes nature-themed patches, stickers and clothing to raise awareness of Tasmania’s wilderness is set to gain access to new markets and expert advice... |
| 07.04.2022 | Inside Australian Online Shopping Report reveals $63 billion eCommerce boom | Australia Post’s 2022 Inside Australian Online Shopping Report reveals good news for online businesses, with a $62.3 billion boom for eCommerce as Australian households buy up big online.
Released this week, the Inside Australian Online Sho... |
| 05.04.2022 | By the numbers: Australia Post’s 2022 online shopping report | Source: Pexels/Cottonbro
Australia Post released its 2022 Inside Australian Online Shopping report on Tuesday, showcasing how the e-commerce sector grew in 2021, and highlighting the trends businesses should look out for in the months to co... |
| 14.03.2022 | Australia Post is looking for Local Business Heroes to share in $285,000 in prizes | Former Australia Post Local Hero winner Happy Hubble. Source: supplied.
Small businesses across the country are being encouraged to put their hands up to be counted as Local Business Heroes, with Australia Post setting aside a prize pool wo... |
| 14.03.2022 | How much is technophobia costing your business each year? | Source: Pexels/Ketut Subiyanto
The growing digital divide in the small business community caused by technophobia is a big concern for governments globally. We’re seeing Singapore invest over $352 million and the UK commit more than $900 mil... |
| 16.11.2021 | X15's Toby and Helen from Cheddar | x15 launches deal discovery app, Cheddar.
Cheddar to use AI to personalise shopping offers for the $364 billion Australian retail sector.
Commonwealth Bank of Australia's (CBA) venture-scaling entity, x15ventures, has today launched its new... |
| 11.11.2021 | 10 things you need to know this morning in Australia | Good morning, all.
Australia has joined a coalition of countries working to water down a key proposal from the Glasgow climate summit. Said proposal would put pressure on the more ambitious 2030 emissions reductions target. Morrison has for... |
| 10.11.2021 | Australians started buying stuff online at the start of the pandemic — and never stopped. It’s a major factor in current supply chain issues, experts say. | Suhaimi Abdullah/Getty Images
Since the start of the pandemic, e-commerce has exploded globally, radically transforming shipping and supply chains.
It’s part of the avalanche of factors behind current supply chain chaos.
“There’s a huge amo... |
| 03.11.2021 | Global-e joins with Australia Post to accelerate Australian merchants' international e-commerce sales | PETAH TIKVA, Israel, Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global-e (NASDAQ: GLBE), the world's leading platform enabling and accelerating global, direct-to-consumer cross-border e-commerce, announced today a new collaboration with Australia Post, t... |
| 28.10.2021 | Gavin Gomes, former Sr. Executive of TELSTRA, AUSPOST, CANNON, & FUJIFILM, Startup Entrepreneur, & Business Process expert teams up with global Software Company SAASTEPS | Our Global Team "Collaboration done successfully is the ultimate harmony!"
BROOMFIELD, Colo. (PRWEB) October 28, 2021
SAASTEPS, who recently acquired Kinetic Growth to expand its Lead-to-Revenue offerings to Salesforce Customers, ... |
| 28.10.2021 | Australia Post to give more customers two-hour delivery estimate | Australia Post will expand technology that allows it to estimate the arrival time of parcels down to a two-hour delivery window as part of a $20 million systems upgrade over the next year.
The postal service this week revealed it will spend... |
| 22.09.2021 | Fallen victim to delivery and post office text scams? Here’s what you can do about it | Source: Unsplash/Priscilla du Preez.
For most people, the ping of an incoming SMS will induce some level of excitement — or mild intrigue at least. But with SMS scams on the rise, many may now be meeting this same sound with trepidation.
Ac... |
| 15.06.2021 | End of Financial Year sales: Three sure-fire strategies for retailers | End of the financial year (EOFY) sales are fast approaching, and many retail businesses will experience peak demand. However, with Deloitte predicting “retailers will struggle to hang on to the market share gains they enjoyed in 2020”, ther... |
| 04.05.2021 | eBay Australia is rolling out a new sneaker verification program, which it says will protect local buyers from counterfeit kicks | eBay Australia is seeking to combat counterfeit goods and open the US sneaker market to Australians.
eBay is launching a third-party verification program that will allow US sneakers to be bought and shipped to Australia.
The service opens u... |
| 24.03.2021 | The country’s biggest online beauty retailer is calling out the industry for failing to stock products that reflect the diversity of Australian consumers | Adore Beauty says the Australian beauty industry fails to serve its diverse customer base.
Adore Beauty has called out the beauty industry for failing to stock products for a diverse range of Australians.
It has pledged to offer 2,600 shade... |
| 13.11.2020 | Try these simple strategies to boost your Black Friday results | Black Friday has long been associated with North American shoppers eagerly filling their carts to make the most of the pre-Christmas sales. However, the event has now evolved into one of the biggest days on the Australian retail calendar to... |
| 25.09.2020 | Weekly Wrap #21: Embracing the online revolution, podcast movies and in-home drones | Welcome to our Weekly Wrap, where we cut through the noise to bring you our favourite insights from the technology and startup world.
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| 07.07.2020 | The eCommerce cheat sheet: Selling online with confidence | While the popularity of eCommerce was already climbing, the current environment has taken it to new heights., writes Jason Toshack, General Manager ANZ at Oracle NetSuite.
In 2019, online shopping increased by 17.2 per cent year on year in ... |
| 26.06.2020 | Retail roulette: COVID-19 has changed the way we shop, and the future will be a mixed bag of fortunes for businesses | online shopping habits have changed the future outlook of retail.
By Gary Mortimer, Queensland University of Technology; Jana Bowden, Macquarie University; Jason Pallant, Swinburne University of Technology; and Louise Grimmer and Martin Gri... |
| 17.06.2020 | Pass the parcel: How the rise of Instagram, Facebook and email has changed the game for Australia Post | By Flavio Romero Macau and Ferry Jie
Handwritten letters and posted bills are disappearing, and they were vanishing well before the latest slump.
Australia Post says between 2007 and 2019 the volume of personally addressed letters more than... |
| 20.12.2019 | How to help your online business thrive during the holiday season | Australians spent $28.6 billion on online shopping in 2018. That’s a lot, and what’s more, Statista predicts online businesses are expected to see a further 15 per cent growth in revenue by the end of this year. With December – the peak tra... |
| 25.07.2019 | Worse than wrinkles: FaceApp’s fine print gives it the right to use your photos as it sees fit — and you can’t do anything about it | FaceApp fun (terms and conditions apply). Source: FaceApp.
By Mark Giancaspro, University of Adelaide
Viral photo app FaceApp has taken the world by storm. Launched in 2017, the app has recently enjoyed mass popularity due largely to Hollyw... |
| 23.11.2018 | Protect your business from employee risks on cyber Monday | The Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping days are set to excite Australian consumers this week, seeing shoppers swoop on mass discounts and sales in the lead-up to Christmas. According to the latest figures from Australia Post, Australian... |
| 26.10.2018 | Australia Post to run more robot trials | Australia Post says it has “regulator support” to conduct more trials of robots to make last mile deliveries after a trial run in the Brisbane suburb of New Farm at the end of last year.
The postal service ran a four week trial in November ... |
| 19.03.2018 | Victorians can use AusPost Digital ID as proof of age card | Victoria has begun accepting a digital version of Australia Post’s Keypass ID card as a valid form of identification in licensed venues across the state.
Gaming and liquor regulation minister Marlene Kairouz approved the use of Keypass with... |
| 05.12.2017 | Social enterprises are building a more inclusive Australian economy | Rosyln Campbell, founder of eco-friendly feminine hygiene company Tsuno, is one the growing number of social entrepreneurs in Australia. Source: Supplied
By Erin I. Castellas and Jo Barraket, Swinburne University of Technology
Social enterp... |
| 17.10.2017 | Australia Post 'infrastructure issues' cause parcel problems | Australia Post is recovering from an infrastructure outage that disabled a series of APIs powering label printing, tracking and delivery of parcels.
The problems began just before 3pm AEDT on Monday as customers wanting to send parcels took... |
| 10.10.2017 | AusPost creates Shipster service for online orders | Australia Post is trialling a subscription-based delivery service for online purchases with around 40 local retailers, including Myer, Target and Harvey Norman.
The service, called Shipster, requires users to pay an initial fee of $9.95 - a... |
| 19.02.2016 | How the ABC is using startup thinking to “reinvent” itself | The Australian Broadcasting Corporation is experimenting with startup thinking and setting an example for innovation in big business, ABC technology director Ken Gallacher says.
Gallacher was a judge at the SE-Corp CIO Summit Shark Tank in ... |
| 24.07.2015 | Technolog: Hack of dating sites signals an end to promiscuous use of online identity | If anybody is still labouring under the mistaken belief that anything online can remain private and secure, this week should have seen them finally admit defeat. In the US, UCLA Health reported that 4.5 million health records had been compr... |
| 04.03.2015 | Competition heats up in delivery space, as Shippit battles Parcel Point | Missing a parcel will become a thing of the past if Shippit gets its way.
By integrating with online retailers and courier companies, the startup enables users to pick a three hour delivery time slot between 7am and 10pm. Buyers can track t... |
| 28.07.2014 | Tracking your digital fingerprint online raises privacy issues | Just how much information we give away about ourselves as we browse the web has been raised again by a tracking device used in thousands of websites.
Researchers at Belgium’s University of Leuven have revealed the widespread use of a techni... |
| 16.10.2012 | Return to spender: Australia Post’s digital strategy might deliver few returns | Australia Post have every reason to be pleased with their role in the online shopping revolution.
They are central to the process by providing a means of converting the virtual into the real, by delivering online shoppers’ purchases to thei... |
| 25.05.2012 | Sorry, you can't mail your iPhone or iPad overseas 'til next year | The United States Postal Service has put a ban the international shipment of lithium-based batteries (Lithium Metal, Lithium Alloy, and Lithium ion.) This ban includes electronic equipment with lithium batteries permanently installed such a... |
| 02.08.2011 | The reality of online retail | I read today that Myer intends to do away with shipping and handling costs for its online store, to stop the leak to internet shopping. Apparently “Commonwealth Bank estimates that Australian consumers spent $9.5 billion online last year, w... |
| - | Readers share frustrating moments with Aus Post as ‘Sorry we missed you cards’ get axed for MyPost customers | Last week we reported on Australia Post removing ‘Sorry we missed you’ slips specifically for MyPost users. And this resulted in robust conversations in our comments around Australia Post’s current delivery standards, as well as security co... |
| - | TikTok drama between Hero Packaging, Aus Post unearths deeper problem with compostable packaging | The Hero Packaging team with their compostable mailers. Source: supplied
It all started with TikTok drama.
A couple of weeks ago, Hero Packaging posted a video calling out Australia Post. This was in regards to its Online Retail Industry Aw... |
| - | Seeing red: Is this the end of Australia Post’s daily letter deliveries? | Source: Twitter/AusPost
Australia Post is seeing red. A lot of it.
After posting a razor-thin profit of $23.6 million in the last six months of 2022, it anticipates a loss for the full 2022-23 financial year — only the second time since bei... |
| - | Small businesses brace for Australia Post price hike on July 3, with some expecting to pay $5 more per parcel | Image: Supplied
Next month Australia Post will be raising some of its prices, making it more expensive to send packages domestically and internationally. Some Australian small businesses have spoken out against the changes, saying it has be... |
| - | Australia Post to axe “Sorry we missed you” cards for MyPost customers | Many of us have a story about it. A tale of woe that begins with that electric hit of serotonin when you click ‘buy’ on an online shopping cart.
Days pass and the anticipation for your shiny new item grows. For those working from home, you ... |
