Amanda Rose

Consumers may love paying discount prices for a well-made ‘dupe’ but the copycat craze continues to put more designers and artists out of business.

Australia has no shortage of entrepreneurship programs, incubators, startup workshops, and business leadership courses aimed at encouraging more women to start their own businesses, but are they selling a pipe dream instead of actually helping women?

As the buzz around the four-day work week reaches fever pitch, businesses must carefully consider the full implications that such a work mod…

Ahead of the federal budget unveiling today, vulnerable women small business owners across Australia are hoping for relief from the relentless cost of living pressures currently plaguing the entire country.

The challenges of the past few years are yet to disappear for small businesses, says Amanda Rose. So what can they do to tread water in 2023?

By now it should be clear that Australia’s dismal rate of female workforce participation is something that needs to be drastically improved.

"Increasing the minimum wage isn't the silver bullet that people are hoping that it will be," writes Amanda Rose.

As the Albanese government settles in, it must consider boosting female-owned small businesses as a line of defence against the onslaught of economic challenges Australia currently faces.

As COVID-19 restrictions are rolled back and floods hit the east coast, small business owners are hunkering down to fight for their survival.

The NSW government's Westinvest slogan talks the talk, but will small businesses benefit from the $5 billion program?

Small business women operating in Victoria are speaking out about what they need to survive the fourth, and potentially not the last, snap lockdown by the Victorian government. 

"What happened to shopping around? Consumers have more power than they realise. They can change governments with a simple vote."