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COSBOA chief executive Peter Strong says the government should continue JobKeeper wage subsidies beyond March.

Tanya Manus Journal staff A new location in the heart of downtown Rapid City gives Lily Mendoza more space to support education, advocate for other women, and promote Native American books and authors. Mendoza is the owner of the Bird Cage Book Store and Mercantile, a shop she ran in The Racing Magpie for four years. In October, Mendoza relocated to her own shop at 524 7th St. The new location is a hub from which her family runs a wholesale book business, Dakota West Books LLC, and online resource Word Carrier Trading Post, along with the brick-and-mortar book store and mercantile...

Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Kate Carnell. Small business groups want this week’s economic update from the federal government to include a greater commitment to small business procurement, flexible loans and more economic data to help SMEs recover from the economic fallout of the pandemic. The Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO), to be released on Thursday by Treasurer Josh Frydenberg, is expected to show an improvement on the federal government’s bottom line by more than $10 billion. Speaking to SmartCompany, small business advocates say they are n...

SmartCompany Resilience Awards winners announced SmartCompany Resilience Awards.  It’s about rebounding from disappointments and being able to roll with the punches.  It’s also about absorbing the unexpected and being present to new possibilities and connections.  This year, we are celebrating members of the Australian SME community that embody these qualities, and then some.  The four winners were selected by a judging panel that included Australian small business and family enterprise ombudsman Kate Carnell, COSBOA chief executive Peter Strong, Salesforce area vice president Adrian ...

The ARA chief executive, Paul Zahra, said he expected “there will be hard-hit retailers who will make use of these provisions as they push through their recovery period”. Zahra said the two-year suspension was a “step in the right direction” to revitalise workplace pay deals to boost productivity and jobs. He said there was “no reason the FWC shouldn’t consider the impact of Covid-19 and the views of employers and employees when approving an enterprise agreement”. “The changes have the right checks and balances in place, including that the views of the people who matter, the e...