Pitch Engine
The Times Real Estate

.

Melbourne's second lockdown spells death for small businesses. Here are 3 things government can do to save them

  • Written by John Vaz, Senior Lecturer, Department of Banking and Finance, Monash University
Melbourne's second lockdown spells death for small businesses. Here are 3 things government can do to save them

The reimposition of stage 3 restrictions on metropolitan Melbourne is, as Victorian premier Daniel Andrews says, a matter of life or death. That’s also true for small businesses.

A further six weeks of stay-at-home orders for the city’s 5 million residents will kill off many small and medium sized businesses unless there are critical...

Read more: Melbourne's second lockdown spells death for small businesses. Here are 3 things government can do...

More Articles ...

  1. Low-paid, young women: the grim truth about who this recession is hitting hardest
  2. Australia needs a six-month GST holiday
  3. Marriage and money help but don't lead to long-lasting happiness
  4. It's one thing to build war fighting capability, it's another to build industrial capability
  5. Big Tobacco's decisive defeat on plain packaging laws won't stop its war against public health
  6. Memo to Australia's states: try renovating your tax system before asking for a new one
  7. The market is not our master — only state-led business cooperation will drive real economic recovery
  8. The spending splurge matters, regardless of what modern monetary theory says
  9. Vital Signs: Stamp duty is an economic drag. Here's how to move to a better system
  10. Politics with Michelle Grattan: two leading economists on Australia's post-COVID economy
  11. Forget JobSeeker. In our post-COVID economy, Australia needs a 'liveable income guarantee' instead
  12. The sun is setting on unsustainable long-haul, short-stay tourism — regional travel bubbles are the future
  13. UniSuper take note: there's no retirement on a dead planet
  14. Disagreeability, neuroticism and stress: what drives panic buying during the COVID-19 pandemic
  15. Be careful what you claim for when working from home. There are capital gains tax risks
  16. Teleworkability in Australia: 41% of full-time and 35% of part-time jobs can be done from home
  17. In praise of the office: let's learn from COVID-19 and make the traditional workplace better
  18. Cutting unemployment will require an extra $70 to $90 billion in stimulus. Here’s why
  19. No big bounce: 2020-21 economic survey points to a weak recovery getting weaker, amid declining living standards
  20. Qantas cutbacks signal hard years before airlines recover
  21. You've got (less) mail: COVID-19 hands Australia Post a golden opportunity to end daily letter delivery
  22. Vital Signs: why even competent politicians refuse to change policy course
  23. COVID-19 provides a rare chance for Australia to set itself apart from other regional powers. It can create a Pacific 'bubble'
  24. Mortgage deferral, rent relief and bankruptcy: what you need to know if you have coronavirus money problems
  25. COVID-19 has changed the future of retail: there's plenty more automation in store
  26. If we could design JobKeeper within weeks, we can exit coal by 2030. Here's how to do it
  27. The death of the open-plan office? Not quite, but a revolution is in the air
  28. Why China believed it had a case to hit Australian barley with tariffs
  29. Learning from experience: how our universities can turn the international student crisis into an opportunity
  30. Informal feedback: we crave it more than ever, and don't care who it's from
  31. Young women are hit doubly hard by recessions, especially this one
  32. Vital Signs: COVID-19 recession is different – and we need more stimulus to deal with it.
  33. Retail won't snap back. 3 reasons why COVID has changed the way we shop, perhaps forever
  34. Forced labour, sexual exploitation and forced marriage: modern slavery in Australia hides in plain sight
  35. Australia Post can't turn back. Here's why
  36. A question of trust: should bosses be able to spy on workers, even when they work from home?
  37. Watch yourself: the self-surveillance strategy to keep supermarket shoppers honest
  38. Vital Signs: why 'the marketplace for ideas' can fail – from an economist's perspective
  39. About that spare room: employers requisitioned our homes and our time
  40. Footy crowds: what the AFL and NRL need to turn sport into show business
  41. How to improve JobKeeper (hint: it would help not to pay businesses late)
  42. By sacking staff and closing stores, big businesses like The Warehouse could hurt their own long-term interests
  43. You better hope your work cleaner is one of the few who has time to do a thorough job
  44. Businesses get extension for instant asset write-off
  45. Economists back wage freeze 21-19 in new Economic Society-Conversation survey
  46. Sun, sand and uncertainty: the promise and peril of a Pacific tourism bubble
  47. Fast moves in India-Australia relations risk pushing millions more into modern slavery
  48. HomeBuilder might be the most-complex least-equitable construction jobs program ever devised
  49. After Robodebt, it's time to address ParentsNext
  50. Vital signs. Remembering Alberto Alesina, the father of political economy