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| Oct 2, 2024 | Queensland Govt Backs Cauldron Ferm’s Efforts to Build APAC’s Largest Precision Fermentation Facility | 4 Mins Read Australian fermentation specialist Cauldron Ferm has received financial support from the Queensland government to build a first-of-its-kind precision fermentation contract manufacturing plant.
The state of Queensland is exhibiti... |
| Sep 2, 2024 | Think Tank Lays Out Policy Recommendations for Australia’s Precision Fermentation Sector | 5 Mins Read Australia has a young but burgeoning precision fermentation sector, but to meet its potential, it needs a big helping hand from the government.
It may only be home to six companies, but Australia’s precision fermentation ecosyst... |
| Aug 30, 2024 | Unpacking Australia’s $1 Billion Bet On a Future World-Class Quantum Computer | Earlier this year, Australia agreed to invest nearly AUD $1 billion in U.S.-based quantum start-up PsiQuantum in an effort to become the first country to own a commercial-scale quantum computer.
The technology is expected to be operational ... |
| May 30, 2024 | “Nasty negativity”: Chalmers slams opposition over $20,000 instant asset write-off delay | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: SmartCompany via AAP Image/ Mick Tsikas. article-article-body
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has blasted the federal opposition, accusing the Coalition of holding up the passing of the $20,000 instant asset write-off... |
| May 28, 2024 | Future Made in Australia will create jobs but it doesn’t go far enough | Source: Adobe Stock article-article-body
The shift towards net zero emissions and greater international competition have created new opportunities for clean energy industries – poised to shape the global economy in the coming decades.
To ha... |
| May 27, 2024 | Australia’s domestic manufacturing gets a $523.2 million boost with Battery Breakthrough | Source: Adobe Stock. article-article-body
Australia has a new National Battery Strategy, unveiled last week as a key part of the government’s Future Made in Australia agenda. The vision is for this country to be making batteries with secure... |
| May 14, 2024 | New $325 energy bill rebates for one million small businesses | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: SmartCompany article-article-body
As part of a suite of measures providing renewed help with energy bills for every household and many small businesses, the 2024-25 federal budget provides a total of $3.5 bil... |
| May 14, 2024 | Future Made in Australia unveils $1.7 billion innovation fund | Prime Minister Anthony Albanese. Source: SmartCompany. article-article-body
One of the biggest pre-budget announcements was the Future Made In Australia policy. What wasn’t divulged was a $1.7 billion innovation fund aimed at early-stage de... |
| May 14, 2024 | Responsible AI gets $39.9 million in the federal budget | Minister for Industry and Science Ed Husic. Source: SmartCompany. article-article-body
Artificial intelligence continues to be a focus for the federal government when it comes to the tech sector, and the 2024-25 budget reveals $39.9 million... |
| Feb 13, 2024 | Submission to the Australian Treasury consultation on the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax | The shift from petroleum to gas has had deep consequences on the revenues collected from the PRRT, owing to the structure of the rent tax. Previous reviews of the PRRT and the associated gas transfer pricing rules have shown that the rent t... |
| May 10, 2023 | What you need to know about the numbers behind the 2023 Budget | Surplus or not, the budget papers show us living through pretty awful times, writes Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University.
Living standards measured by the buying power of wages are set to go backwar... |
| May 10, 2023 | The full list of IT projects in the 2023-24 federal budget | With an expected $2 billion ICT and digital spend in the next financial year alone, the stage was set for a large list of government technology projects in Budget 2023-24.
Back-of-envelope calculations show the topline amount spent could co... |
| May 9, 2023 | Gov allocates "more than $2 billion" to digital and ICT | The federal government has budgeted “more than $2 billion” for digital and ICT in its 2023-24 budget, and up to $3.7 billion over the next four years.
Finance minister Katy Gallagher wrote in a preface [pdf] that the funds represented a “si... |
| Mar 14, 2023 | Sitharaman Announces Rs 1.18 Lakh Cr Annual Budget For J&K | |
| Mar 6, 2023 | Baghel Announces Rs 2500 Monthly Allowance To Unemployed Youth In Chhattisgarh budget | |
| Feb 23, 2023 | In A Startup-Friendly Budget, UP Govt Keeps INR 100 Cr For Seed Funding, INR 20 Cr For Agritechs | The state government has earmarked INR 60 Cr to develop the proposed Uttar Pradesh Information Technology and Startups Policy
Uttar Pradesh is home to 50 incubators and 7,200 startups operating across the length and breadth of the state
Und... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Budget 2023: Govt raises farm credit target by 11% to Rs 20 trn for FY24 | The government on Wednesday announced an 11 per cent hike in agriculture credit target to Rs 20 lakh crore for the next fiscal with focus on animal husbandry, dairy and fisheries, a moved aimed at providing higher farm loans at a subsidised... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Budget 2023-24: Railways gets record Rs 2.6-trillion capex boost | Indian Railways is set to see a record capital expenditure (capex) of Rs 2.6 trillion in fiscal year 2023-24 (FY24). This announcement in the Budget on February 1 would give a push to the massive infrastructure expansion lined up and the go... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Budget 2023: Credit Guarantee Scheme for MSMEs gets Rs 9,000-cr boost | The government will infuse Rs 9,000 crore into the Credit Guarantee Scheme for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs), enabling lenders to dispense additional credit worth Rs 2 trillion.
This is expected to reduce the cost of credit by... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Budget: NPCIL gets Rs 9,410 cr as India seeks to ramp up nuclear capacity | NPCIL, India's sole nuclear power plant operator, on Wednesday received an allocation of Rs 9,410 crore in the Union Budget for 2023-24 as it sets out to ramp up atomic power generation capacity in the country.
The allocation to the Nuclear... |
| Feb 1, 2023 | Budget 2023: Corp Affairs min gets Rs 756 cr, higher than current fiscal | The corporate affairs ministry will get a budgetary allocation of Rs 756.19 crore in the next financial year, higher than the amount earmarked for the ongoing fiscal ending March 31.
In 2022-23, the total allocation was initially at Rs 733.... |
| Nov 2, 2022 | After its $197 million cut the Entrepreneurs’ Programme will be assessed again for the next budget | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas
The controversial Entrepreneurs Programme will be re-assessed again ahead of the next budget, the Department of Industry, Science and Resources (DISER) has confirmed with SmartCompany.
The Ent... |
| Oct 30, 2022 | Tech talent migrates to Web3 as large companies face layoffs
FTX CEO dissects Mark Zuckerberg’s intent to pump $10B/year into Meta
Championing Web3 features in role-playing games — Here's why it matters
Vitalik Buterin ‘kinda happy’ with ETF delays, backs maturity over attention
Simplifying ...... | As inflation continues to grow, coupled with a looming recession, many tech firms are having to cut portions of their staff. To put this in perspective, data from Layoffs.fyi found that over 700 tech startups have experienced layoffs this y... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | Asset management firm launches BTC Lightning Network startup accelerator
Hong Kong could be key for China’s crypto comeback — Arthur Hayes
Blockchain embraces gold to provide stability and growth for crypto assets
Metaverse losses top $3.6B for Meta with spending set to increase
Championing ...... | Asset management firm Stone Ridge, the parent company of Bitcoin company NYDIG, has launched the first startup accelerator that focuses on the Bitcoin Lightning Network and the Taro protocol, called In Wolf’s Clothing (Wolf).
The accelerato... |
| Oct 27, 2022 | What’s in the Federal Budget for startups? | Dr Chalmers delivered his first budget on Tuesday night. Image - Parliament House, Canberra.
Labor has just announced the October 2022 federal budget, and many in the tech sector have mixed emotions about the points made.
Treasurer Jim Chal... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Budget 2022: Energy efficiency grants for SMEs form key plank in Labor’s green energy strategy | Small and medium enterprises looking to improve their energy efficiency will be handed $62.6 million in grant funding, thanks to a new program revealed in Tuesday’s federal budget.
Electricity prices have soared as a result of the war in Uk... |
| Oct 25, 2022 | Budget 2022: Depreciation of intangible assets scrapped to save $550 million | The federal government has decided not to proceed with a previous Coalition policy that would have allowed business operators to self-assess intangible depreciating assets, such as patents, registered designs, copyrights and in-house softwa... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Small businesses brace for cost increases as fuel excise reduction nears its end | Source: Unsplash
As Australian motorists prepare for a steep increase in petrol prices later this month, small business owners are dreading the end to the six-month fuel excise reduction.
In order to reduce the impact of high international ... |
| Jun 8, 2022 | Why the RBA won’t continue to raise rates at the level the market expects | Source: Shutterstock/The Conversation.
By lifting its cash rate by 0.5 points, from 0.35% to 0.85%, the Reserve Bank has added about another $120 per month in payments for a $500,000 mortgage.
If financial markets are to be believed, by the... |
| May 20, 2022 | Australia’s unemployment rate officially begins with a ‘3’. What now?’ | Source: Shutterstock.
Early in the election campaign, on April 14, we learned that Australia’s unemployment rate had slipped below 4% in March, to 3.95% — the lowest rate in 48 years.
But the Coalition was denied the bragging rights that wo... |
| May 11, 2022 | Why the Stage 3 tax cut won’t benefit everyone, and work against the RBA’s measures to counter inflation | Source: Shutterstock.
The Reserve Bank is pushing up interest rates to take money out of our hands.
The first increase in the current round will add about $65 a month to the cost of paying off a $500,000 mortgage.
The second will add a bit ... |
| Apr 26, 2022 | Election 2022: A closer look at Morrison’s promise of no new taxes for small business | Prime Minister Scott Morrison. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has pledged no new taxes for small businesses in a wide-reaching economic pitch to voters ahead of the May election in a press release laden with eyebrow-r... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Budget 2022: Australian SMEs granted 20% “bonus” tax deductions on tech upgrades and digital skills training | Parliament house. Source: AAP.
Australian businesses upgrading their digital skills and equipment will receive $1.6 billion in tax relief under a plan put forth by the 2022 federal budget that will come into effect tonight.
In a package ref... |
| Mar 29, 2022 | Ten things small businesses need to know about the 2022 federal budget | The 2022 federal budget has arrived, showing a government pitting its preferences for economic ‘repair’ against the benefits of targeted fiscal support.
With an election on the way, the Morrison government has a little to crow about: toplin... |
| Mar 25, 2022 | Australia’s economists want emissions cuts, not tax cuts, in the upcoming budget | Overwhelmingly, Australia’s top economists would rather the budget funds measures to cut carbon emissions than cuts income tax or company tax.
They are also dead against rumoured cuts to petrol tax and the tax on beer.
The Conversation’s pr... |
| Mar 17, 2022 | Budget 2022: Fuel prices are soaring, but cutting petrol tax isn’t the best solution | Source: Shutterstock, CC BY-SA.
Cutting petrol tax to bring down the cost of living used to be the political version of a joke. Failed US presidential candidates John McCain and Hillary Clinton both tried it in 2008. Their bipartisan advoca... |
| Feb 2, 2022 | How the right budget could send Australia’s unemployment below 3% for the first time in 50 years | The Morrison government could achieve unemployment rates once seen under Australia’s longest-serving Prime Minister Robert Menzies. Source: National Library of Australia.
What’s the boldest thing the Morrison government could do in next mon... |
| Dec 20, 2021 | Labour shortages will be an ongoing issue despite the government’s prediction of a jobs boom | We’ve all heard stories of restaurants unable to reopen due to lack of staff. Or reports of consulting firms advertising thousands of vacant jobs. As Australia emerges from lockdowns, labour shortages have been a serious concern for busines... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | MYEFO presents an optimistic outlook, but Omicron could change those predictions | The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) presents a predictably optimistic update for the year ahead for Australia.
This time last year, bookings for cruise holidays in 2021 were soaring because of the belief that the worst of COVID... |
| Dec 17, 2021 | MYEFO: Procurement, small business counselling and the digital economy get funding boost | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg.
The federal government plans to spend $2 million over the next four years to further improve the participation of small and medium businesses in Commonwealth procurement.
Included in Thursday’s Mid-Year Economic a... |
| Dec 16, 2021 | Gov to spend another $161m on digital identity system | The federal government will spend another $161 million on its federated digital identity system over the next two years, bringing total investment since 2015 to more than $600 million.
The new funding, revealed in the 2020-21 mid-year econo... |
| Sep 7, 2021 | Climate change is threatening Australia’s farming industry | Source: Unsplash/Mick Orlick.
The findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change suggest Australia may have to jettison tracts of the bush unless there is a massive investment in climate change adaptation and planning.
The potent... |
| Jun 17, 2021 | Has the end of JobKeeper cost Australia nearly 100,000 jobs? | Source: AAP/Bremdon Thorne.
At its peak, more than 3.8 million Australians were on JobKeeper — three in every ten Australian workers.
Adding in those workers already employed by government, it meant four in every ten received a paycheck tha... |
| May 18, 2021 | “I was expecting more”: Jo Burston discusses the so-called ‘budget for women’ | Jo Burston. Source: supplied
Despite the Australian economy bouncing back better and faster than expected, and our ongoing impressive control of the pandemic, there’s no doubt that COVID-19 has left women, more than men, economically disadv... |
| May 11, 2021 | NBN Co whittles govt loan down to $13.9bn | NBN Co has paid off an additional $2.6 billion of its government loan, leaving a balance of $13.9 billion to be refinanced by mid-2024.
The company paid off its first $3 billion at the end of last year, and budget documents [pdf] show that ... |
| Mar 2, 2021 | Australia Saw Over 100 New Fintechs in 2020 as The Sector Matures | Australia is home to 733 active fintech companies, up from 629 in September 2019, reveals KPMG’s Fintech Landscape 2020 map. This represents an increase of 104 companies that joined the sector between September 2019 and December 2020.
The i... |
| Dec 17, 2020 | Govt pours millions into Covid vaccine tracking systems | The federal government will spend millions standing up tracking and monitoring systems for its planned Covid vaccination program slated to begin in March.
In its 2020-21 mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO) [pdf], the government has... |
| Nov 10, 2020 | JobMaker is nowhere near bold enough: The government should make these four fundamental changes | Source: Shutterstock/Alessandro Biascioli.
The government has targeted its JobMaker hiring credit too narrowly.
The scheme to go before the Senate this week will give employers who take on someone aged 16 to 29 years, who has also been on J... |
| Oct 29, 2020 | STEM cadetships for women: Why $25 million is a small investment compared to the scale of the challenges to be overcome | Source: Gorodenkoff/Shutterstock.
An overarching criticism of the recent federal budget is that it overlooked the workers hit hardest by the COVID-19 pandemic — namely, women. However, the budget includes one promising, albeit small, initia... |
| Oct 20, 2020 | The budget sets us up for an unreasonably slow economic recovery, says Grattan Institute | Josh Frydenberg has told us his 2020 budget is “all about jobs”.
What he hasn’t said is that it is actually aiming for a slower recovery from the recession, as far as unemployment goes, than from most recessions in Australia’s history.
That... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | How the Australian government could restart immigration, generate revenue for regional areas and drive economic growth to boot | The university sector faces up to A$19 billion in losses over the next three years due to lost international student revenue. Source: Unsplash/Wes Hicks
Faced with a difficult economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, Australia needs to... |
| Oct 16, 2020 | Government’s $4 billion JobMaker scheme referred to Senate inquiry, as tight eligibility rules emerge | Finance Minister Mathias Cormann and Treasurer Josh Frydenberg look over the 2020 budget. Source: AAP/Mike Bowers.
The federal government’s $4 billion JobMaker hiring credit scheme has been referred to a Senate committee for inquiry.
Elsewh... |
| Oct 9, 2020 | Budget 2020: New Enterprise Incentive Scheme gets $5.7 million extension to help more aspiring and micro business owners | Source: Unsplash/Dan Burton.
The federal government will spend $5.7 million over the next two years to give more aspiring and micro business owners access to income support, mentoring and training programs within the New Enterprise Incentiv... |
| Oct 7, 2020 | Explained: How SMEs can access the new ‘limitless’ asset write-off scheme | Australian Treasurer Josh Frydenberg speaks to the media during a press conference inside the budget lockup ahead of handing down the Budget 2020/21 at Parliament House. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
It’s one of the big ticket items for businesse... |
| Sep 28, 2020 | JobKeeper and Jobseeker cut back will push 740,000 Australians into poverty | Australian National University calculations suggest JobKeeper and the boosted JobSeeker payment have saved about 2.2 million people from poverty. It’s a remarkable outcome without precedent in Australia. However, the planned cuts to the gov... |
| Jul 24, 2020 | “The reality of where the economy is at”: With tax collection down, budget forecasts are only going to get worse | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg. Source: AAP/Lukas Coch.
Even if the government hadn’t spent $5.9 billion on JobKeeper and other emergency measures last financial year, and wasn’t planning to spend a further $12.2 billion this financial year, its... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | Josh Frydenberg:$85 billion deficit but we’ve saved lives and livelihoods | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg says the government’s swift actions have saved over 700,000 jobs and ensured Australia has the best pathway to recovery post-COVID-19 but it has come at a cost.
Watch the announcement
#LIVE: Important economic upda... |
| Jul 23, 2020 | Govt sinks another $20m into consumer data right | The federal government has handed Treasury and Australia’s competition regulator $19.2 million to continue the implementation of the consumer data right over the next 12 months.
The new funding, revealed in the government’s 2020 economic an... |
| May 14, 2020 | Broadband tax start date delayed to January 2021 | Long-delayed legislation for a broadband tax on non-NBN Co operated fixed line services has finally passed parliament, ending an three-year saga that was interrupted by last year’s election.
But the tax is now slated to begin on 1 January 2... |
| Apr 27, 2020 | Permanently raising the childcare subsidy is an economic opportunity too good to miss | The Australian government’s COVID-19 rescue package for the childcare sector provides a lifeline for centres and parents alike.
Childcare centres now have a guaranteed stream of income and support for wage costs, helping them to stay in bus... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Massive single business register consolidation scores $60m | The federal government has set aside more than $60 million this year to begin developing Australia’s future single business register.
In its 2019-20 mid-year economic and fiscal outlook (MYEFO), released on Monday, the government said the f... |
| Dec 16, 2019 | Govt resuscitates Medicare legacy payments system with another $37m | The federal government will spend almost $37 million continuing to shore up the country’s legacy Medicare payments system after dumping plans for a new bespoke platform last year.
Services Australia will use the new funding for “essential” ... |
| Dec 9, 2019 | Cash stash: Josh Frydenberg’s tax cuts aren’t flowing into small business tills | Treasurer Josh Frydenberg rebuffed NSW's request to go 50:50 on the new JobSaver.
By Peter Martin, Australian National University
Australians saved rather than spent most of the budget tax cuts, almost doubling the proportion of household i... |
| Nov 28, 2019 | Broadband tax now planned to kick in July 2020 | The federal government has reintroduced long-delayed legislation for a broadband tax on non-NBN operated fixed line services, which it hopes will be in place from 1 July 2020.
Communications Minister Paul Fletcher reintroduced the Telecommu... |
| Jul 2, 2019 | Govt wants broadband tax passed this year | The federal government has resurrected its heavily-delayed plan to introduce a broadband tax, with the laws expected to be in place before parliament wraps up for the year.
Plans to both introduce and pass the regional broadband scheme (RBS... |
| May 17, 2019 | Taxpayer-subsidised waste: The instant asset write-off isn’t all its cracked up to be | By Steven Hamilton, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The third leg of the government’s budget (and election) tax package is an expansion of the instant asset write-off which will allow businesses to immediate... |
| Apr 9, 2019 | Tax cuts left, right and centre: Here’s an explanation you’ll understand | Leader of the Opposition Bill Shorten delivers the 2017-18 Federal Budget reply speech on Thursday, May 11, 2017. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas.
By Peter Martin, Australian National University
With all the announcements on tax over the past few d... |
| Feb 27, 2019 | Unnecessary requirements: Why startups aren’t utilising the Global Talent Scheme visa | Hannan Tew Lawyers partner Jordan Tew. Source: Supplied.
On July 1, 2018, the ‘Global Talent Scheme’ (GTS) pilot was rolled out for an expected 12 months, comprising of two streams.
An established businesses stream for businesses that are e... |
| May 18, 2018 | What it’s like to be a “black economy” worker | By Miriam Vandenberg, Flinders University
Nina, not her real name, works for a cleaning company that sends her into private homes, in exchange for about $20 per hour, cash-in-hand.
She’s had numerous cash-in-hand jobs over the past few year... |
| May 11, 2018 | Proposed Changes to R&D Tax Incentive: factsheet | The 2018 Federal Budget has announced a series of changes to the R&D Tax Incentive that are intended to come into effect on 1 July 2018…
On 8 May 2018, the Treasurer, the Hon Scott Morrison MP, announced changes to the R&D Tax Incen... |
| May 8, 2018 | FinTech Australia Chair Stuart Stoyan Welcomes Government Budget, Says Big News Coming on Open Banking | FinTech Australia says their industry will benefit from the 2018-2019 Australian Budget but big news on Open Banking will wait for a future date.
Stuart Stoyan, Chair of FinTech Australia, says he welcomes a number of funding measures outli... |
| Mar 1, 2018 | NBN faces irrelevance in cities as competitors build faster, cheaper alternatives | By Allan Asher, Australian National University
Malcolm Turnbull is now connected to the National Broadband Network (NBN) at his Point Piper home on a 100 megabits per second (Mbps) plan, it was revealed in Senate Estimates this week. But on... |
| Jun 8, 2017 | How we could make the retirement system more sustainable | By Peter Wells, University of Technology Sydney
Our current retirement system is simply not sustainable, as our population ages and life expectancy increases. Australia incentivises people to structure their finances so they are asset rich ... |
| May 10, 2017 | Budget 2017: Will the super housing plan encourage young SME owners to save more? | Treasurer Scott Morrison and Minister for Finance Senator Mathias Cormann ahead of Budget 2017. Source: AAP.
The federal government plans to give young workers the option to “salary sacrifice” into superannuation to save for housing deposit... |
| May 3, 2017 | Will the Budget deliver in favour of small business? | The Federal Budget 2017-2018 is looming and will be revealed 7.30pm (AEST) on Tuesday 9 May 2017. In the meantime, many small business owners are left wondering what the outcome will mean for them?
According to new research from MYOB, almos... |
| Apr 4, 2017 | Government’s tax change shifts definition of small business to $10 million, giving more SMEs access to $20,000 instant asset write-off and other concessions | The government’s hard-fought change to the corporate tax rate for small businesses has also altered the definition of “small business” to now include companies with up to $10 million in annual turnover, meaning budget pledges to extend a nu... |
| Feb 20, 2017 | Would tax cuts for new businesses be more likely to boost “jobs and growth”? | By Saul Eslake, University of Tasmania
The Turnbull government’s signature economic policy at last year’s election was a 5% cut in the company tax rate, over a 10-year period, at a cost to revenue estimated to be in excess of $48 billion. A... |
| Dec 23, 2016 | Why the government’s company tax cuts won’t help most SMEs grow | There has been a lot of discussion about corporate tax cuts following MYEFO. This article, published in SmartCompany, is one of the more thoughtful ones as it raises the human elements of decision making, uncertainty and confidence as major... |
| Dec 22, 2016 | There are two big political problems buried in the latest budget update | Source: AAP Image/Lukas Coch/POOL
By John Edwards, Curtin University
Whether or not we end up in surplus in five years’ time, this week’s Mid Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) exposes nasty political problems for the Turnbull governm... |
| Dec 20, 2016 | All the DTA wants for Christmas is a permanent boss | Executives with their eye on the top job at the federal government’s peak digital agency may have to revise their poolside holiday plans, with applications for the CEO role at the Digital Transformation Agency closing early in the new year.... |
| Dec 19, 2016 | Canberra continues to fork out for OPEL | Canberra continues to fork out for dumped NBN precursor OPEL - more than eight years after it was cancelled - through an out of court settlement with the consortium stood up to build the network.
OPEL was a Coalition government policy initi... |
| Jul 28, 2016 | As surveillance gets smart, hackers get smarter | |
| Jul 6, 2016 | Election 2016: What a hung parliament could mean for superannuation | Source: AAP Image/Dan Himbrechts, Mick Tsikas, Lukas Coch.
By Helen Hodgson, Curtin University
The Australian superannuation system is already complex to navigate without the added uncertainty of looming changes. These changes may not even ... |
| May 5, 2016 | Déjà vu: Why Turnbull still hasn’t sold us on the innovation dream | By Mark Dodgson
The word “innovation” was conspicuously absent from most of the federal budget last night, mentioned just a handful of times in treasurer Scott Morrison’s speech.
It had been very difficult to avoid a strong sense of déjà vu... |
| Dec 2, 2015 | Be sure to read the fine print in Turnbull’s mid-year economic update | Since his swearing in as Prime Minister in September, Malcolm Turnbull has often referred to himself as a “reformer”. In particular, Turnbull has made clear that the time for a change has come.
The Abbott-Hockey plan to “end the age of enti... |
| Sep 3, 2015 | Pilgrim details state of play at OAIC | The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner is forging ahead despite the government's efforts to close it down, and will continue to agitate on behalf of consumer's rights despite its uncertain future, according to Privacy Commiss... |
| Apr 29, 2015 | A field guide to the 2015-16 federal budget | When the 2015-16 federal budget is released on May 12 there will be much analysis of specific measures and all sorts of claims and counterclaims about deficits and debt will be made.
The following is a “field guide” to the federal budget: a... |
| Dec 16, 2014 | SMEs should be optimistic says Bruce Billson, despite $10 billion hit to budget bottom line in MYEFO | Budget revenues have fallen dramatically since the federal government’s first budget in May and it may be years until the budget is back in black, but Small Business Minister Bruce Billson says SMEs still have cause for optimism.
Treasurer ... |
| May 28, 2014 | The ‘myth’ of the Australian entrepreneur | We are still awaiting the details of the Federal Government’s Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program, and how this may impact the Australian entrepreneurial ecosystem.
While this program is estimated to provide $484 million of funding, this ... |
| May 21, 2014 | The ‘myth’ of the Australian entrepreneur | We are still awaiting the details of the federal government’s Entrepreneurs’ Infrastructure Program, and how this may impact the Australian entrepreneurial ecosystem.
While this program is estimated to provide $484 million of funding, this ... |
| May 15, 2014 | Budget 2014: Hockey says details of paid parental leave scheme will depend on states | Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey has said the government is still determining the “exact numbers” of its paid parental leave scheme with the state and territory governments.
The government reinforced its commitment to the scheme in its 2014-15 ... |
| May 15, 2014 | Budget 2014: Changes hit hard for Japara Health, which enters trading halt after aged care funding cuts | Newly listed aged care provider Japara Healthcare has gone into a trading halt in response to the federal budget’s axing of aged care funding.
The company is examining potential damage to its earnings outlook after the federal government an... |
| May 14, 2013 | The GST debate: Is reform necessary? | Few taxes have been as politically fraught as the GST. The deal, brokered by the-then Prime Minister John Howard and the Democrats in 2000, was not only controversial for its political ramifications, but for the economic debate that ensued.... |
| Gov hopes for multi-carrier highway boost | The government will put $50 million from its 'better connectivity plan' into improving mobile coverage on roads and highways.
The Regional Roads Australia Mobile Program (RRAMP) was announced today by communications minister Michelle Rowlan... |
| Thirteen ways to bridge the $70 billion a year deficit in our budget | Treasurer Jim Chalmers. Source: AAP/Mick Tsikas
No one likes spending cuts and tax hikes, but on our estimate, the government will soon need more of them if they are going to make a dent in looming $70 billion a year budget deficits.
A new ... |
| Why the 15% tax on the world’s biggest companies won’t fix the problem of profit shifting | Australia’s federal government has a plan to discourage companies from shifting profits to tax havens. The idea is to impose a “global minimum tax” on large Australian and foreign-owned companies with subsidiaries in low or no-tax countries... |
| S&P 500 jumps 1% to post record close, ending session above 5,300 for the first time: Live updates | The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite popped to record highs Wednesday and added to their strong 2024 performances. The major averages were boosted by a lighter-than-expected U.S. consumer inflation report.
The broad market index gained 1.17... |
| How the federal budget may change the RBA’s view on interest rate hikes | Source: AAP Image/ Mick Tsikas
Inflation, as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has said, is “a tax on the poor”.
The great budget challenge for him and Treasurer Jim Chalmers has been to deliver help to Australians struggling with cost-of-liv... |
| Future Women’s Jobs Academy awaits independent assessment after huge government funding | A SCREENSHOT OF THE FUTURE WOMEN WEBSITE
Future Women, the lifestyle website and women’s employment services program co-owned by Nine Entertainment, remains confident about its success, even as it awaits independent assessment after it was ... |