Australian business guides
The parts of running a business here that no overseas playbook covers: eight public holiday calendars, the ATO year, FIFO rosters, the wet season and the rest.
- Every Australian public holiday, state by state, and what each one does to your phonesAustralia does not have one public holiday calendar, it has eight. A business trading across state lines is closed, open
- BAS, GST and the ATO calendar that quietly eats an Australian small business's yearAustralian compliance is not hard so much as relentless. The deadlines arrive whether or not the work is done, and for m
- Why rostering staff in Australia is harder than almost anywhere elseAustralia runs a modern award system with more than a hundred separate awards, each with its own classifications, penalt
- The tyranny of distance: what serving customers across an Australian state actually costsAustralia is roughly the size of continental Europe with a twentieth of the people. That single fact reshapes every serv
- What FIFO rosters do to a services business, and how to plan around themFly-in fly-out work is one of the genuinely Australian features of the economy. It reshapes the customer base of every t
- Bushfire, flood and storm season: the Australian businesses that get slammed, and whenAustralia runs an annual natural disaster calendar. For a lot of businesses that is the single biggest driver of demand,
- Trade licensing in Australia, state by state, and why it stops businesses crossing bordersThere is no national trade licence in Australia. Licensing is a state matter, which means a qualified tradesperson can b
- The Australian slang your AI receptionist has to understand or it will lose the callAn AI trained mostly on American English will mishear an Australian customer. In a service business, mishearing the job
- The Australian Privacy Principles in plain English, for businesses putting AI near customer dataThirteen principles govern how Australian organisations handle personal information. Most AI questions a business has ar
- Industries that basically only exist in Australia, and the software nobody built for themA lot of Australian business runs on sectors with no real overseas equivalent at the same scale. That is exactly why the
- What Australian Consumer Law means your AI agent must never sayAustralian Consumer Law applies to what your business says, including when a machine says it. Consumer guarantees cannot
- The wet season and the northern Australian business yearAbove the Tropic of Capricorn the year does not have four seasons, it has two. Every business plan in northern Australia
- Regional Australia versus the capitals: what actually differs for a businessRoughly a third of Australians live outside the capital cities. The businesses serving them are not smaller versions of
- ABN, ACN, GST and the rest: what every Australian business actually has to register forAustralian business registration is a set of separate identifiers that do different jobs. Most confusion comes from assu
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