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The review will be the second such assessment since the agency was directed to do the reviews every five years.

SME lender ScotPac will completely waive the first three months’ of interest on loans to small businesses offered through a new dedicated working capital fund that is launching today. 

New lending models and technology developments over the past decade have led to more financing options for small businesses — and we’re likely only seeing the beginnings of the positive changes for SMEs.

Advanced economies around the world have, to varying degrees, witnessed the same trend of slowing economic and real wages growth since the financial crisis of 2008-09. Why?

The difference between a good and bad super fund can be $660,000 in retirement, but the government’s proposed Your Future, Your Super law is set to change super for the better.

Vocational education has seen a steady decline in the uptake and completion of apprenticeships over the last five years, a new report has found.

The government is planning to move ahead with a bid to axe an SME patent regime set up to make it easier for businesses to invest.

The Productivity Commission has taken a swipe at the government's $2 billion Business Securitisation Fund, questioning whether it is in the public interest.

Australian small-businesses owners are calling for fewer obligations when it comes to dealing with workers' superannuation.

A crackdown on superannuation and changes to the Fair Work Act have been passed in the final sitting week for the year in Canberra.

The commission has heard that banks still don’t really “get” the vagaries of farming and that farm valuations have become fluid and unpredictable.

Though employees can choose their super fund, employers often default them into funds that underperform.