• Business

    ANZ’s four-day work week pilot success a “game changer” for how we work


    Joe Jiang |  July 5, 2023


    Successful trials of the four-day work week in Australia and New Zealand have signalled a need to transform the way we work to achieve sustainable benefits for the employee, the organisation and society, RMIT Professor Zhou (Joe) Jiang, explains.


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  • Finance

    Australian middle market continues to power ahead as the engine room of economy


    Mick Wright-Smith |  June 30, 2023


    Banks face several key challenges in lending to middle market companies, Mick Wright-Smith, Co-Founder and Partner, Epsilon Direct Lending explains.


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  • Digital transformation

    Embrace digital transformation now or risk falling behind


    Adrian Floate |  June 26, 2023


    Businesses of all sizes need to embrace digital transformation – especially in how they make/accept invoice payments and how this impacts cash flow – as a means of survival in today’s uncertain economic environment, Adrian Floate Managing Director of Spenda explains.


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  • Retail

    Retail recession will be life-changing for consumers


    First 5000 |  June 23, 2023


    According to customer experience expert, Lyndall Spooner of Fifth Dimension, the retail recession will be life-changing in a positive way for consumers. While brands are going under and there is blood on the streets, consumers will be the winners.


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  • Digital transformation

    SMES to benefit from staff training, digital investment


    First 5000 |  June 22, 2023


    Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand (CA ANZ) is encouraging SMEs businesses to act now if they want to benefit from a new tax incentive to train their employees and digitise their business.


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  • Cyber security Have your say

    ASIC invites Australian entities to assess their cyber resilience


    First 5000 |  June 21, 2023


    ASIC-regulated entities, including mid market businesses, publicly listed companies, other entities holding licences and authorisations, are invited to take part in a survey to measure cyber resilience in Australia’s corporate and financial markets. 


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  • Human resources

    Changes to pay secrecy explained


    Sean Melbourne |  June 14, 2023


    Penalties for pay secrecy clauses have been updated. Sean Melbourne from professional services company Source explains what employers and employees can and can’t do when it comes to pay secrecy.


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  • Superannuation

    Federal Government announces payday super from 1 July 2026


    First 5000 |  June 1, 2023


    The Albanese Government has announced it will require super to be paid at the same time as salary and wages from 1 July 2026.


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Latest News

  • You can only control what you have control over in business

    Chris Morrision     |      April 16, 2019

    Imagine if the government legislated that unless you doubled your business in 12 months you couldn’t stay in operation. You would have to certainly think differently than you do now and become more active to achieve stronger results.

  • Australian Paper welcomes ADC findings on dumped paper

    First 5000     |      April 16, 2019

    Australia’s only local office paper manufacturer has welcomed the decision by the Minister for Industry, Science & Technology to accept the Anti-Dumping Commission’s (ADC) final recommendations relating to the dumping of A4 copy paper in the Australian market.

  • Young people call for paid internships, training and job creation

    First 5000     |      April 15, 2019

    New research shows that 45 percent of young people are not confident, or are unsure, of finding work in their chosen career after completing their studies, with many young people wanting more jobs to be created and additional help finding work through opportunities such as paid internships and training.

  • Overcoming digital disruption is not just about technology 

    First 5000     |      April 15, 2019

    Disruption and transformation is not all about technology. It is as much about educating leaders and empowering people to transform, says a leading not-for-profit. 

  • Macquarie University to link Australia’s future smart satellites

    First 5000     |      April 15, 2019

    Eighty-four research and industry partners are contributing $190 million investment in cash and in kind to the new Cooperative Research Centre for Smart Satellite Technologies and Analytics, and the Australian government is contributing a further $55 million.

  • Best sellers use story-triggering

    Shawn Callahan     |      April 12, 2019

    Story-triggering happens when someone does something remarkable enough that the people who see or experience it tell a story about it.

  • Singapore small business owners optimistic about growth in 2019

    First 5000     |      April 12, 2019

    Small businesses in Singapore grew less strongly than their counterparts in Southeast Asia, despite growing at their strongest pace in three years in 2018 and outperforming other developed economies like Australia, Hong Kong, New Zealand and Taiwan, according to a new survey released today.

  • Opportunity knocks for Sydney designers

    First 5000     |      April 12, 2019

    The City of Sydney will give up to 10 local fashion designers the opportunity to establish viable business models and open their first retail spaces.

  • Business Council releases plan for stronger Australia

    First 5000     |      April 11, 2019

    The Business Council is today releasing a plan aimed at creating a more resilient Australia, with better jobs, more jobs, higher wages, lower taxes, improved living standards, and lower energy prices, Business Council chief executive Jennifer Westacott said.

  • Aussie retailers discounting to disaster: report

    First 5000     |      April 11, 2019

    Discounting is considered the bane of many retailers’ existence. Yet, are retailers’ slaves to discount-demanding consumers, or have they created these ‘discount monsters’ themselves?

  • How SMEs can benefit from Design Thinking

    Lillian Connors     |      April 11, 2019

    New products and businesses always start out as somebody’s great idea, but unfortunately those great ideas don’t always work out.

  • Redefining the data ecosystem for the data economy

    Rachel Bevans     |      April 10, 2019

    Organisations know that to capitalise on the data economy and grow their business, they need data to make decisions that enable delivering a unified customer experience and employee experience, supply chain integration, innovation and new business models.

  • Impediments to business investment report

    First 5000     |      April 10, 2019

    The House of Representatives Standing Committee on Economics has presented the report of its inquiry into impediments to business investment.

  • Delay on consumer disclosure in super will hurt member retirement outcomes

    First 5000     |      April 10, 2019

    The Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) has today warned that delays to consumer disclosure requirements will negatively impact on the retirement outcomes of millions of unsuspecting Australians.

  • SMEs say no to property as security: survey

    First 5000     |      April 9, 2019

    Eight out of 10 business owners say they resent providing property as security to fund their SMEs, and overwhelmingly they would be willing to pay a higher interest rate to get property out of the funding equation, according to national research.