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The Federal Government has long signalled the upcoming 2023-2024 budget will not be a spending free-for-all, but portfolio priorities suggest how new financial pledges could flow through to the small business sector.

Small Business Minister Julie Collins has swung against Opposition Leader Peter Dutton's claim the government treats small business owners with "suspicion", drawing links between the Liberal Party's recent by-election defeat and its recent record on small business issues.

There is an important group of people missing in the Treasurer's vision for the Australian economy; a group that has always operated with values.

Collins is either a lame-duck minister or is actually working behind closed doors with other ministers and with the ACTU to make life harder for those she supposedly represents, says Peter Strong.

Why doesn’t the federal government revive an old plan to establish a small business industrial relations award?

Victorian Small Business Minister Jaala Pulford will not recontest the November state election, ending her 16-year tenure in state politics and leaving a vacancy in the Labor government's employment portfolio.

Australian Meat Industry Council’s Patrick Hutchinson and Independent Food Distributors Association’s Richard Forbes are among those standing for election on October 27.

Tradies, hairdressers, nurses and politicians could miss out on a tax break if the federal government backflips on, or rethinks, the scheduled Stage 3 tax cuts, as the Treasurer flags "difficult decisions" must be made in this month's federal budget in light of a looming global recession.

The federal government may be promising a ‘bread and butter’ budget when Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers his economic blueprint in late …

Tax incentives designed to expand Australia's advanced manufacturing base will benefit the economy, Peter Strong says.

There have been no significant reform promises made by the Albanese government, but the push is strong — and coming from numerous places.

The recent Jobs and Skills Summit and its aftermath shows that the current government is very good at duchessing the business community.