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West Sydney gets $400m for infrastructure

Councils in Sydney's west are getting $400 million in grants from the NSW government for infrastructure projects, with residents asked to contribute ideas about how it should be spent. Premier Dominic Perrottet says councils in 15 local government areas in Sydney's west and southwest will get between $20 million and $35 million each as part [...]

Glasgow named best city for a small business to be based

Glasgow has been named the best city for a small business to be based, with London not featuring in the top 25, according to a new report. A study based on average wages, travel times, house prices and jobs, also suggested that Manchester and Derby were among the best places in the UK for small [...]

Business confidence and cash flow dries up amid Omicron COVID-19 outbreak

Business confidence plummets As Omicron surges, business confidence is plummeting, according to a new Business NSW survey. Forty per cent of the more than 2,000 business owners surveyed said they did not have enough cash flow for the next three months. Business NSW chief executive Daniel Hunter said as a result, businesses were putting off [...]

What is Launchme

What is Launchme Launchme is a free initiative giving people the opportunity to develop, finance and launch their own business. Successful applicants will work alongside other community members to create their business ideas from scratch with support from experts in the field. How can Launchme help you? Launchme will support you to balance your life [...]

AWS went down – and large parts of the internet went with it

The official AWS dashboard has published the following statement: "We have executed a mitigation which is showing significant recovery in the US-EAST-1 Region. We are continuing to closely monitor the health of the network devices and we expect to continue to make progress towards full recovery. We still do not have an ETA for full [...]

Strengthen your business after the 2019-20 Australian bushfires

Strengthening Business Strengthening Business provides access to experts who'll work with you to make your business stronger, more resilient and better prepared for the future. They'll work with you to develop a roadmap, and strengthen your business systems, operations and strategies. Additionally they'll connect you to services you need to achieve your business goals. [...]

Tasmanian Hospitality Association receives millions in grants after lobbying against Greens, Labor

A powerful lobby group believed to be instrumental in the re-election of the Tasmanian Liberals in 2018 has been promised about $15 million in taxpayer funding since, documents show. Documents obtained under Right to Information laws show the Tasmanian Hospitality Association (THA), which spent almost $900,000 campaigning against Labor and the Greens at that year's state election, has since received [...]

First look inside the new Western Sydney airport

While Kingsford Smith is finally abuzz with passengers after a long 19 months, across town the transformation of Sydney's second airport is taking shape with work to begin on the terminals within weeks.Since bulldozers moved into what will be known as the Nancy Bird Walton Airport, 20 million cubic metres of earth have been shifted.In what has [...]

Biden’s crew touch down at Glasgow Airport for Cop26

Part of President Biden's huge entourage arrived at Glasgow Airport today in advance of COP26 -  A C17 military jet kicked up clouds of vapour as it touched down on the runway Mr Biden and his wife Jill are in Rome today to meet the Pope to discuss a range of issues including climate change.  [...]

Whyalla GreenSteel could be PM’s COP26 get out of jail card

The refinancing of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance two weeks ago has kick started work on plans for a massive, world-scale GreenSteel investment by the company which would transform its Australian operations centred on the Whyalla steelworks on upper Spencer Gulf in South Australia. @AuManufacturing understands negotiations have been underway in recent days involving GFG and [...]