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Powerful strategies to increase your online presence
Raul Harman | August 13, 2019What is your business doing to make itself stand out from the crowd? Raul Harman shares his insights into how to create a powerful online strategy to boost your web presence.
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Trade and Investment Growth Inquiry Commences
First 5000 | August 12, 2019The Joint Standing Committee on Trade and Investment Growth has commenced an Inquiry into Supporting Australia’s Exports and Attracting Investment. Submissions from interested individuals, businesses and organisations are invited by Monday, 23 September 2019.
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Partners, children and broken families: the other casualties of advice industry reform
Barry Daniels | August 12, 2019Whilst the enormity of mental health consequences has rarely received a second thought by legislators even less regard has been given to the impact on the partners and children of financial planners.
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How I mastered my elevator pitch
Alan Manly | August 12, 2019Everybody in business has a pitch. To overcome my discomfort with the hard sell I have refined a method that helped master the elevator pitch.
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Brighter, bolder future for Australian girls
First 5000 | August 9, 2019A cooperative alliance to build girls’ participation in entrepreneurship and STEM kicks off today as leaders from a range of sectors gather in Sydney as part of the Future Female Entrepreneurs Program.
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Health is not a short-term issue
Martin Bowles | August 9, 2019The Chair of Australia’s Health 2040 Taskforce Martin Bowles AO PSM explains the rationale behind the Taskforce report and its recommendations.
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SME groups call to increase cost of lodging unfair dismissal claims
First 5000 | August 9, 2019Two leading voices for Australia’s small and medium sized businesses, Employsure and the Small Business Association of Australia (SBAA), have today announced a new partnership to advocate two key areas of workplace reform.
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Australia’s Health 2040: The right care, at the right price, in an efficient system
First 5000 | August 8, 2019Australia’s Health 2040, a cross-disciplinary taskforce facilitated by the independent policy institute Global Access Partners, has released a report outlining 19 reform options for the Australian health system to ensure a more sustainable future.
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How value-based health care can work in Australia
Alison Verhoeven | August 8, 2019The Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association supports Health 2040’s proposals to shift the focus in the Australian health system from volume to value.
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Achieving affordable healthcare through sensible policy change
Rachel David | August 8, 2019The cooperative approach demonstrated by participants in the Australia’s Health 2040 report augurs well for the future of Australia’s mixed public private health system.
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Cyber criminals now targeting small to medium businesses
First 5000 | August 7, 2019SMBs are being urged to get Cyber-crime ready, with the number of businesses targeted by hackers tripling in the past year, according to specialist cyber security company, CTRL Group.
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Survey reviews sentiment around loyalty programs
First 5000 | August 7, 2019In an era where consumer behaviour is more complicated than ever before and the entire retailer environment has been flipped on its head, does the age-old loyalty program still add value?
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How to reduce workplace turnover rates
Zack Halliwell | August 7, 2019One of the biggest concerns facing modern business in 2019, and for the past decade or so in fact, has been that of turnover rates.
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APRA to appear before House Economics Committee
First 5000 | August 6, 2019APRA will appear before the House Economics Committee at a public hearing on Friday, 9 August 2019, as part of its review of the performance and operation of Australia’s banking, insurance and superannuation regulator.
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New global trading process on the horizon for bulk commodities
First 5000 | August 6, 2019When a vessel carrying coal from Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal sailed last week, it heralded the dawn of a new era in global bulk commodity logistics and trade.