Business calls for tax reform as opposition slams Victorian government’s ‘pathetic’ economic growth plan

Business calls for tax reform as opposition slams Victorian government’s ‘pathetic’ economic growth plan

Victoria’s promised economic growth statement,designed to drive economic growth,is not expected to include tax reform. Business and the opposition want more.

  • byRachel Eddie andKieran Rooney

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Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward

Perth families denied burial plots seek ‘compassionate’ way forward

After closing a cemetery,a Perth metropolitan council has advised widows they can no longer be buried in the lots they bought beside their husbands.

  • byGary Adshead
Toothbrushes to dodgem cars cheaper with tariffs on chopping block

Toothbrushes to dodgem cars cheaper with tariffs on chopping block

The Albanese government says cutting almost 500 tariffs on everyday products will be the biggest change to the system in two decades and will help businesses and households.

  • byRachel Clun
Unintelligible gobbledygook:Government paperwork needs urgent overhaul
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Unintelligible gobbledygook:Government paperwork needs urgent overhaul

Inequality must not be perpetuated nor entrenched by technology. The challenge for the digital economy is not just to be efficient,but to also be fair.

  • byJon Faine
Rules relaxed during COVID-19 pandemic set to stay and deliver $3.1b boost to economy
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Rules relaxed during COVID-19 pandemic set to stay and deliver $3.1b boost to economy

A raft of relaxed rules introduced during the pandemic – such as takeaway alcohol services and 24-hour retail deliveries – are set to stay.

  • byNatassia Chrysanthos
Red tape on small businesses in Frydenberg’s budget sights

Red tape on small businesses in Frydenberg’s budget sights

Small business owners would get a cash flow boost under a government plan to change the way tax bills are calculated as the economy rebounds.

  • byKatina Curtis
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Charities fear $150 million hit from cost of new government rules
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Charities fear $150 million hit from cost of new government rules

Research commissioned by a number of charities and not-for-profit groups shows rules designed to stop unlawful acts could cost up to $150 million in their first year.

  • byNick Bonyhady
‘Can you please do your job?’:Births,Deaths and Marriages registry complaints jump

‘Can you please do your job?’:Births,Deaths and Marriages registry complaints jump

Like most of us,19-year-old Will Richardson’s life feels like it has been put on hold. But it’s not just lockdowns holding him back – it’s an inability to get a copy of his birth certificate.

  • byRachael Dexter
Industry key to Australia’s emissions target,not ‘inner city dinner parties’:PM

Industry key to Australia’s emissions target,not ‘inner city dinner parties’:PM

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has promised not to “tax our industries off the planet”,saying net zero emissions can’t be achieved at “dinner parties and wine bars” but with the assistance of manufacturing and agriculture.

  • byShane Wright
Food trucks to move easier between Perth's south east with streamlined permits

Food trucks to move easier between Perth's south east with streamlined permits

The simplified trading partnership permit,launched on Friday,gives food trucks and mobile food vendors the ability to trade at approved events across the Town of Victoria Park and cities of Canning and Gosnells.

  • byHamish Hastie
Lost to translation:despite decades of experience these interpreters can't apply for work

Lost to translation:despite decades of experience these interpreters can't apply for work

New federal rules that govern translation and interpretation accreditation have disqualified three experienced practitioners,who say they can no longer get government jobs.

  • byAnna Patty