The Confidence Crisis under Labor

One of the potential consequences not immediately apparent from our recent string of natural disasters is that many affected small businesses may not reopen. Experience from natural disasters in the United States suggests around 40% of small businesses may not reopen...

Tough times for small business under Labor

Support for the federal government’s policies from small and medium enterprises has collapsed to its lowest level in nearly 10 years according to the latest Sensis Business Index – Small and Medium Enterprises survey. The proportion of SMEs that believe...

Hard Labor for Small Business

Small business has been doing it tough since Labor was elected in 2007. The number of small businesses in Australia dropped by over 24,000 from June 2007 to June 2009. See for yourself: Labor are making this worse by burdening small business with being the pay clerk...