Business Advice

Many volunteers for independent candidates were small business people. "So why would small business people get involved?" asks Peter Strong.

Business leaders should listen closely to the findings and recommendations of the Broderick review, managing director of culture consultancy We Are Unity, Nat Cagilaba, tells SmartCompany.

Former prime minister Scott Morrison swore himself in as a second resources minister when Keith Pitt had the portfolio in the previous Coalition government and killed off a gas project.

The Opposition Leader publicly turned down an invitation to the Jobs Summit, claiming the summit would be compromised by government favouritism towards union policy suggestions.

The new Labor government may have an unlikely ally in One Nation as it pushes for legislation enshrining equal pay between full-time staff and casual labour hire workers.

Approaching day 49 of the inquiry into the appointment of the New York trade commissioner, it has already prompted the resignation of NSW Liberal deputy leader Stuart Ayres, with more fallout a distinct possibility.

The small business community will be closely watching where this government moves on the economy and on removing the cumbersome complexity that bedevils workplace relations, writes Peter Strong.

The shape of Australia's looming Jobs and Skills Summit is becoming clearer, as senior federal government ministers tout the end of one-sided enterprise agreement terminations and a new kind of digital skills apprenticeship as leading items on the agenda.

A state-by-state breakdown shows state governments are spending $44 million on trade representatives overseas. What do taxpayers get for it?

Alister Henskens will take on the trade portfolio, following the resignation of Stuart Ayres.