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The Australian Apprentice Kickstart Extension is available to small to medium sized businesses that employ a new young apprentice in a skills shortage trade before 12 November 2010. The extension triples the first year incentive payment available to those who employ an apprentice. Your business may be eligible for the ...

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If you haven’t yet discovered the business.gov.au Grants & Assistance Finder tool, then you’ve been missing out!This tool can help you find grants and assistance to get your business started or to expand your operations. It’s a central location for you to find business assistance from Australian, state and territory ...

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If you are an exporter and you have spent money developing the export markets, then you are probably eligible to apply for an Export Market Development Grant. Grant applications can be lodged anytime up to 30 November 2010. Austrade will not accept late applications. The Export Marketing Development Grant Scheme ...

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To be eligible for the Australian Government Early Stage Commercialisation Repayable Grants, applicants must have ownership, access to, or the beneficial use of any intellectual property necessary to carry out and/or commercialise the project being funded by Commercialisation Australia. Grants are available to undertake activities focusing on enabling a new ...

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The Textile, Clothing and Footwear Strategic Capability Program (TCF SCP) offers grants to businesses that will boost innovative capability and help provide growth in these industries. The minimum grant size is $250 000 and funding must be matched on a dollar for dollar basis.   Round 1 of the TCF SCP ...

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The Australian Government’s “Commercialisation Australia – Proof Of Concept Grant” offers grants of between $50,000 and $250,000 to assist eligible businesses with turnovers under $10M to test the commercial viability of the business model or idea for a product, process or service. For grant percentages up to 50% of the ...

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The Australian Government’s Commercialisation Australia – Experienced Executive program offers significant assistance to a small medium enterprise which has the ownership, access to, or beneficial use, of any intellectual property necessary to carry out and/or commercialise the product, process or service, for the employment of experienced executives. A successful applicant ...

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Do you hire independent contractors in your business?  Sometimes a person’s status as an independent contractor or employee just isn’t clear cut. Before entering into a contract, it’s important that you understand the differences between employees and independent contractors. The Tax Office have released a handy little online tool to ...

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The Australian Government Enterprise Connect Program provides support to eligible SMEs, including business reviews conducted by an Enterprise Connect Business Advisor. For eligible businesses there is no charge for this review which can take up to 3 days. If the business is admitted to the Enterprise Connect Program, the Government ...

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Are you a small business and want to help your employees by introducing or improving your family friendly work arrangements? Did you know that there are grants available of up to $15,000? It seems only yesterday I was posting a snippet about this program after its launch, and here we are ...

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Are you looking to create a new brand? IP Australia is running a series of breakfast networking events which will provide business owners and brand managers with the tools and strategies needed to develop successful, recognisable brands. The events are being run in Sydney (already booked out), Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane ...

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