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  • Business

  Why the Australian Business Growth Fund doesn’t go far enough

  Lui Pangiarella     |      May 22, 2019

  The newly elected Morrison government’s promised Australian Business Growth Fund needs to be expanded to include acquisitions.
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  • Events

  Cvent unveils 2019 Top 50 Meeting Hotels in APAC

  First 5000     |      May 22, 2019

  Hyatt Regency Sydney took the number one spot for the second year in a row in Cvent’s annual Top 50 Meeting Hotels in Asia Pacific (APAC).
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  • Tax

  $30k asset write-off up for grabs: is your business eligible?

  First 5000     |      May 22, 2019

  With the end of financial year fast approaching, small and medium-sized businesses are being reminded they could be eligible for an instant asset write-off of up to $30,000.
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  • Digital transformation

  NBN consumers continue shift to higher speed plans

  First 5000     |      May 21, 2019

  More than 5.2 million Australian households are now connected to the NBN, with almost 60 per cent subscribed to higher speed plans, according to the ACCC’s latest quarterly Wholesale Market Indicators Report, released today.
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  • Business Awards

  2019 Telstra Business Woman of the Year announced

  First 5000     |      May 21, 2019

  The title of 2019 Telstra Business Woman of the Year has been awarded to Natasha Chadwick, CEO of Queensland aged care facility, NewDirection Care at Bellmere.
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  • Politics and Policy

  Ombudsman calls for returned government to follow-through on SME commitments

  First 5000     |      May 21, 2019

  The focus on the small business sector in the lead-up to the election was a major factor in the win for the Coalition government, the Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman (ASBFEO), Kate Carnell said today.
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  • Business

  From little things, big things grow: the success story of Bio21

  Robert Cromption     |      May 20, 2019

  In 1998, the Bio21 Hub was established through the collaboration of Melbourne University Science Departments and Research Institutes including the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, which has now led to break-through cancer research commercialisation in partnership with major pharmaceutical companies.
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  • Politics and Policy

  Small business votes more valuable than bunkum dollars

  Peter Strong     |      May 20, 2019

  COSBOA today congratulated Scott Morrison on achieving an outcome for the election that very few predicted. This will give certainty to the small business community.
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  • Space

  Earth to Mars: Monash team takes on world’s best in rover challenge

  First 5000     |      May 20, 2019

  A student team from Monash University is taking one small step for Australia and one giant leap for future life on Mars as it competes against the world’s best to build the next generation of space rovers that will one day accompany human explorers to the Red Planet.
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  • Business

  Election winner needs to reignite consumer confidence: Metricon NSW

  First 5000     |      May 17, 2019

  With calls to cut official interest rates likely to be reignited as a result of yesterday’s ABS job market figures showing unemployment has risen slightly to a seasonally-adjusted 5.2 per cent, our common goal should now be finding ways to bring confidence back into the economy, according to Metricon NSW.
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  • Politics and Policy

  Finding employment biggest concern of young voters: survey

  First 5000     |      May 17, 2019

  A new survey conducted by frontline youth service, ReachOut, has found the top three issues of national political interest to young people were employment (65.5 per cent), housing affordability (57.9 per cent) and the cost of education (55.5 per cent).
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  • Grants and support

  New employer incentive scheme to boost apprenticeships and traineeships

  First 5000     |      May 17, 2019

  The Western Australian Government has announced the introduction of an employer incentive scheme from 1 July 2019, to help thousands of employers with the costs of employing an apprentice or new entrant trainee.