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4 things governments can do to help small business

  • Written by Andrei Alexander Lux, Lecturer in Leadership and Organisational Behaviour, Edith Cowan University
4 things governments can do to help small businessJames Ross/AAP

So much for the v-shaped recovery.

Australia is set to record its biggest quarterly fall in GDP in history this week. The federal government will extend its JobKeeper wage subsidy program by six months. About 1.75 million workers, including about 1 million Victorians, are expected to rely on it till March.

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