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Thousands of SMEs still without working eftpos terminals, as Tyro outage stretches into fifth week

Over 2,000 small businesses are still affected by Tyro’s payment terminal outage, which has now entered its fifth week.

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Perth’s Fringe World Festival cancels events and closes venues as city enters five-day COVID-19 lockdown

Western Australia’s largest annual arts event Fringe World has cancelled every performance and closed its venues for five days.

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Retail and fast-food workers to receive increase in minimum wage from today

Fast-food and retail workers will receive a pay rise from today, following a Fair Work Commission decision to increase award wages by 1.75%.

Andrew Leigh tax multinationals contracts super complaints

Labor calls for JobKeeper inquiry as minerals miner Iluka repays $13.6 million in subsidies after recording strong sales

Labor is pressuring the Morrison government to call an inquiry into the JobKeeper scheme, as another firm repays $13.6 million in subsidies.

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NSW government’s freshly minted R&D action plan gets a $26 million boost and wins praise from business group

The NSW government has launched an R&D acceleration plan, which involves boosting collaboration between government, universities and SMEs.

Tasmania

Tasmania tops the states for economic performance, while NSW slides to its lowest rank in eight years: CommSec

New data reveals Tasmania has the best-performing economy in Australia, with retail spending and population growth pushing it ahead.

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“Business was completely lost”: SMEs on frontline as climate change inaction tipped to cost $100 billion annually by 2038

Globally, disasters caused economic losses of $272 billion in 2020, with most losses linked to weather-related disasters such as floods.

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Google pulling its search engine from Australia “would be a disaster” for SMEs

Google’s threat to remove its search engine from Australia “would be a disaster” for small businesses and digital marketing agencies.

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Government inquiry clears former Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate of wrongdoing, but reveals more corporate credit card spending

Former Australia Post chief executive Christine Holgate’s decision to gift four watches worth to staff did not amount to fraud, report finds.

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Ongoing travel restrictions put 32,000 tourism businesses at risk of failing, as end of JobKeeper looms

The tourism industry is calling for support from the federal government, as new research shows 32,000 operators could fail this year.

Google threatens to leave Australia

A whopping 80% of Australians say search engines should disclose algorithm changes, as inquiry into news code continues

An overwhelming 80% of Australians believe that search engines should be more transparent when experimenting with algorithm changes, new data reveals.

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“There’s no plan B”: Businesses give corporate boxes a miss at this year’s Australian Open

Businesses opt to skip spoiling their clients in corporate boxes at this year's Australian Open, as the global pandemic teeters along.

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