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Small business council calls for nationally consistent approach to COVID-19 restrictions

Source: supplied. Mandated closure of ‘non-essential business’ and other trading restrictions have been a nightmare for small business owners around the country, both for income and for mental health. Confusion just makes it worse. We need a nationally consistent, standardised  approach to COVID-19 restrictions so that small business owners can plan for the risk of a lockdown.   When Australia first went into lockdown in March 2020, the Australasian Convenience and Petroleum Marketers Association (ACAPMA) started receiving concerning phone calls from distressed service station owners in Victoria and South Australia reporting that police officers were ‘manhandling’ truck drivers away from roadside rest areas they had interpreted the rest areas to be a dining facility, a non-essential part of the service station that was required to close. The federal government had made an exemption for roadhouses, truck stop facilities and truck driver lounges to stay open so heavy

Open letter from business organisations seeking urgent action on debit payments

Open letter from business organisations seeking urgent action on debit payments Source: Pexels/Karolina Grabowska. Ten industry associations representing Australian SMEs have come together to pen this open letter to the federal government, demanding urgent action be taken to avoid higher transaction costs for Australian retailers. The letter is in response to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) examining whether medium and smaller banks should be able to issue debits cards with one payment scheme on them, instead of two, such as Visa and eftpos.  Australia’s debit payments system is at a critical juncture, and we need urgent action so hundreds of thousands of businesses do not face the cost burden of higher transaction fees in-store and online.