Local Federal MP Bruce Billson and the Shadow Minister for Justice Michael Keenan have met with local Mornington and Mt Eliza traders, the Mornington Peninsula Shire Council and police about the further roll-out of the CCTV network and community safety concerns.Mr Billson said areas identified for the potential roll-out of more cameras to prevent a...

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The Coalition has urged family businesses across the country to get behind a Parliamentary Inquiry into the sector.Shadow Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson said around 70 per cent of Australian businesses were family businesses and that the inquiry would help flesh out some more hard data on the sector and explore impediments to family ente...

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Small business people across the country are becoming more and more anxious about the growing red-tape and compliance burden being placed on their business, according to the Coalition. Shadow Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson, who was today visiting businesses in Geelong, said proprietors were too often being dragged away from servicing cus...

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Established local disability employment service providers with 20 years of experience building strong local networks and successful partnerships have lost their funding as a result of a recent Gillard Labor Government tender.The disability employment support service funding has been awarded to larger national providers and new entrants to the regio...

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The Coalition has questioned why funding to help small business remains frozen while the Gillard Government has happily handed out $24 million to academics to research how European societies thought, felt and functioned more than 200 years ago.Shadow Small Business Minister Bruce Billson blasted the Gillard Government’s funding approach saying it f...

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Figures released today by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirm that small business is doing it extremely tough in Tasmania.Nowhere else in the country have retail trade figures slid for the past 11 successive months in trend terms, according to the Federal Shadow Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson. “Tasmania has been totally for...

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Cafes, hairdressers, builders and other small businesses will pay a high price for Labor’s mismanagement with the mid-year budget review confirming $390 million will be spent as part of a continuing tax office crackdown on small businesses as the Government searches for more cash to fill its $120 billion budget black hole.“Despite already carrying ...

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Mark Brennan will have his work cut out for him as the new Commonwealth Small Business Commissioner working for a Gillard Labor Government which doesn’t understand small business, according to the Coalition. Shadow Small Business Minister Bruce Billson said it was disappointing for Mr Brennan and small businesses that he hasn’t been given any of th...

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The Coalition shares small business scepticism about the true value of the Gillard Government’s announcement it would appoint a Small Business Commissioner with no new powers following advertisements and interviews for the position.Shadow Minister for Small Business Bruce Billson said that the Gillard Government had opted for a largely symbolic rol...

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The Coalition has urged the banks to immediately pass on in full today’s interest rate cut to small business loans and not add further to the increasing margin on small business which has almost doubled under Labor.Shadow Small Business Minister Bruce Billson said the ‘spread’ between the official cash rate and residentially secured small business ...

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With the RBA tipped to cut interest rates tomorrow, Shadow Small Business Minister Bruce Billson has urged the banks to pass on any cut immediately to business loans.“A cut in interest rates would help breathe some life into a small business sector which is struggling with higher operating costs and tighter margins because of the carbon tax and poo...

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The delivery of winter electricity and gas bills is seeing Dunkley residents and businesses hit with massive bill shock according to Local Federal MP Bruce Billson.“This weekend marks the first three months of the carbon tax and it is clear that households and businesses throughout Seaford, Frankston North, Frankston, Langwarrin, Mt Eliza and Morni...

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Traders have taken their concerns over planned works by Melbourne Water along Heatherill Road to the state Water Minister Peter Walsh. Melbourne Water plans to run a large storm water drain along part of Heatherhill Road to reduce the impact of any future floods. But traders claim the works have the potential to send them broke as they’ll greatly d...

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Local Federal MP Bruce Billson has helped launch the Coalition’s nationwide survey on broadband speeds, to help find which suburbs are in most need of upgrades.“There are many suburbs in the greater Frankston and Mornington Peninsula area which have poor broadband including Mornington and Mt Eliza,” Mr Billson said.“The survey will provide importan...

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The Gillard Government’s cuts to the Medicare Chronic Disease Dental Scheme (CDDS) are a slap in the face for those who are struggling with chronic diseases who are need of urgent dental work, according to Local Federal MP Bruce Billson. “The Coalition is fighting against this Medicare cut, which abandons chronic disease sufferers because it attack...

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