South Australian businesses whose employees qualify for the Federal Government’s historic $1500-a-fortnight JobKeeper support payments will be exempt from paying any payroll tax on the wage subsidy, the Marshall Liberal Government has announced. Under existing laws, the JobKeeper payment – part of the Commonwealth’s $130 billion stimulus measure to keep eligible businesses connected with their…
DetailsSA’s pubs and clubs, the casino and the Adelaide Oval Stadium Management Authority (SMA) are amongst the first organisations to benefit immediately from funding provided under the Marshall Liberal Government’s $650m Jobs Rescue Package, designed to help save local jobs and industry in the wake of the coronavirus crisis. Each of these businesses have been hit hard by the impacts…
DetailsSouth Australians will have greater choice and flexibility when it comes to their supermarket shopping hours, with the Marshall Liberal Government granting an exemption to allow 24-hour weekday trading to help alleviate pressures due to the Coronavirus. As part of the exemption, granted under the Shop Trading Hours Act 1977, all supermarkets and other non-exempt shops will also be able to…
DetailsThe final report of the independent Commonwealth Grants Commission, released yesterday, will result in a massive GST cut to South Australia of about $2 billion over 4 years compared with GST estimates included in last year’s State Budget. This report would mean a $166m cut to GST this year, and a massive $689m cut next year. Treasurer Rob…
DetailsSouth Australians wanting to stock up on supplies towards the end of the Easter long weekend will have the opportunity to shop closer to home, with the Marshall Liberal Government once again approving retail trading in the suburbs on Easter Monday in addition to the CBD. Treasurer Rob Lucas has granted an exemption under the Shop Trading Hours Act…
DetailsMillicent retailers will be able to trade on Easter Saturday and Geltwood Festival Market Day to capitalise on an influx of visitors and tourists to the region after the State Government once again granted a special exemption under existing shop trading laws. Treasurer Rob Lucas granted the exemption to the Millicent Proclaimed Shopping District under…
DetailsThe Marshall Liberal Government has announced Artesian Venture Partners has been appointed as the new venture capital fund manager to oversee investments of the $50 million SA Venture Capital Fund (SAVCF). The appointment of Artesian Venture Partners was recommended by the independent SAVCF Management Committee, chaired by respected businessman Raymond Spencer. This committee considered an…
DetailsSouth Australians are a step closer to seeing real savings on their water bills, following a Draft Determination by the Essential Services Commission of South Australia (ESCOSA) that proposes reduced drinking water and sewerage revenues for SA Water over the next four years, while maintaining its existing service and safety levels for households and businesses.…
DetailsSouth Australian motorists are driving a hard bargain when it comes to renewing their car registration, saving more than $80 million collectively on their CTP insurance premiums in the past 8 months since the market opened to full competition. Since July, when South Australians have been able to choose their own CTP insurer (either AAMI, Allianz, QBE or SGIC) who…
DetailsSouth Australia’s 25,000-strong teaching workforce has voted overwhelmingly in favour of the Government’s Enterprise Agreement offer, in a move that locks in pay rises of 2.35% per annum for teachers and 3.35% for principals and preschool directors over three years and officially ends the long-running pay dispute. A two-week state-wide ballot, which ended at 5pm…
DetailsAll Rundle Mall and CBD retailers will have the option of trading later, until 7pm, on Saturday and Sunday night – if they choose – so they can capitalise on tens of thousands of people in the city for the Superloop Adelaide 500 and Adelaide Fringe. Treasurer Rob Lucas said he had made the decision…
DetailsColes Rundle Place has become the second supermarket in Rundle Mall to be granted a special State Government exemption to trade extended hours during the Superloop Adelaide 500 weekend, so they can cater for an influx of interstate and international tourists as well as tens of thousands of local motorsport and Adelaide Fringe festival fans. Coles Group wrote to Treasurer Rob…
DetailsInterstate and international tourists, as well as tens of thousands of local motorsport and Adelaide Fringe festival fans, will be able to pick up additional snacks, drinks and other grocery supplies on their way through the city, with the State Government granting a special exemption to Woolworths Rundle Mall to trade later – until 7pm – next Saturday and Sunday…
DetailsSouth Australian small businesses, primary producers and non-profit organisations impacted by the recent bushfires on Kangaroo Island and at Cudlee Creek, as well as other SA regions, including Keilira in the state’s South-East and at Yorketown on the Yorke Peninsula, are being invited to apply to the State Government for concessional loans to assist them…
DetailsThe second year of Boxing Day trade across suburban Adelaide was a ‘roaring success’, with new industry figures revealing record consumer demand last year, as more than 150,000 South Australians and holidaying tourists flocked to the ‘burbs to bag a post-Christmas bargain. Shopping Centre Council of Australia (SCCA) data, using a sample of its member centres, which includes SA’s largest centre…
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