By Jacinta Price
I’ve sat down with grocers, butchers, nursery owners, gym owners, truck dealers and tradies in their own workshops and behind their own counters – because you learn more in twenty minutes behind a counter than months in Canberra.
Everywhere I go, I hear the same things.
Bills are increasing, month after month.
Paperwork that eats six hours a week and earns nothing.
And one thing above all, almost word for word, in every workshop and every café: nobody from Canberra has ever asked us anything.
In 2025-26 there were 375,331 businesses that closed down here in Australia.
Complying with government regulation now costs $160 billion a year.
And Labor’s answer is to restrict and tax family trusts. It is estimated that small and family businesses could spend up to $13.3b in advice and restructuring costs as a result of this terrible Trust Tax.
This Albanese Labor Government clearly does not know the first thing about running a small business.
But it spends its time lecturing the people who do.
So today I’m doing the opposite.
I’ve launched a site where a business owner can tell me directly what’s happening – in their own words.
One question. Thirty seconds.
If that’s you, I’m asking for your feedback today.
What you tell me goes with me into Parliament, into Estimates, into the party room, into the changes I push for.
And if it isn’t you, you’ll know someone it is.
Your mechanic. Your hairdresser. The café that makes your morning coffee.
Nobody has ever asked them either.
Forward this article and you’ll be the reason somebody finally does.
Small businesses are not conducive to market monopolies. Our grubbernments will shut them all down, shut down competition and shut down a fair go for everyone. It’s simply intolerable that tiny pip squeak operations should adversely impact on multi-national Globaalist interests which are so desperate and determined to monopolize and serve our Aussie interests.
Further to comment below, Katy Gallagher’s florist collects GST which was invented by John Howard, then a couple of years later there was so much money that Peter Costello invented the Future Fund which locked in the pensions funding for politicians like themselves and their nearest and dearest public servants. So how do they know how much to pay the politicians, the Remuneration Tribunal is always quoted, like a good tribunal it has 3 members total fees around $250k/annum. The job goes for 5 years and you may be reappointed so who could say no for a once-a-year job with a good pay like that. So who appoints the tribunal ? The G-G does that. And who appoints the G-G ? The Prime minister. So Elbow chooses the people who determine his pay, and they are well motivated to try to get a second term. It’s like “I didn’t bite you, my dog bit you, and it doesn’t know what it’s doing”.
President of Tribunal Holly Kramer gets most of the $250k, appointed 1 June 2024 for a five-year term.
Born in the USA Kramer is a graduate of economics and politics Yale, that place with “Skull & Bones” fraternity
“An experienced chief executive and company director. She was CEO of retailer Best & Less and held senior roles at Ford, Telstra and Pacific Brands. Her board roles include ANZ and Fonterra, and she chairs their remuneration committees as well as Telstra’s People/Remuneration Committee. She previously served as Deputy Chair of Australia Post” 2015-2020
Now who was at Australia Post then, pommy Christine Holgate, from 2017 to 2020, Kramer got out a few months before Holgate was thrown out for trying to convert regional PO shops to banking services, as they already have in NZ. A scandal involving 4 gold watches was cooked up and spread widely through the crooked M$M which works against the public it pretends to serve, dragging Holgate through the muck for trying to assist rural communities who wanted a basic local bank service.
It almost looks as if Kramer was reporting on Holgate, and now a few years later Kramer is getting a little reward job, while Holgate went on to a less glamorous and probably less ambitious logistics place which might anyway be running cometition against the governments “Australia Post”. What if Holgate had got away with her dastardly plan, to convert dying AP outlets to local banks ? What if the G-G directed banks to lend to small business instead of inflating house prices. What if, what if
If, and that’s a big if, a farmer gets $500 per tonne for growing oranges that’s 50 cents per kilo. Reality most producers get around $200 to $300 per tonne
Not a bad profit tor big 3 selling oranges at $3.50 per kilo. Like what do they do ? Load it on the truck stack it on the sheves. For that ‘huge’ effort they get $3.00 profit on a 50 cent investment.
More like 20 – 30 cents per kilo paid to farmer. And people wonder why small businesses are wiped out? We’re not being replaced, we are replaced.
“Komu sve, komu nista.”
What do farmers get here for a ton of oranges $30? Not a bad profit for big 3.
A great commment from ant
Everything comes from central control Swissyland these days, it’s fortresses within a fortress within NATO but not paying NATO fees, Swissy is too tight for that. Osterreich also dodges the fees, we see it is an annexe of Swissyland. Ukraina also not in NATO, but treated like a member state. Silly Germans pay nearly the same for “defence” as Italy and France combined, it’s their punishment.
But I digress.
I saw horrible, ( equal most hideous with WEF YGL infiltrator Claire Oneill ) Finance minister Katy Gallagher the minister overseer for wasting money on every type of rubbish, getting advice from small business on camera, she bombed her local florist since she probably doesn’t actually go shopping for anything else, going to the APH restaurants for everything including networking and dodging media / public. I asked the bot for the prices at these a-la-carte places expecting to see everything half normal price but the menus and prices are not disclosed so I expect caviar and truffles about $1/kilo type of prices, swipe the card, nobody needs to know anything.
So there we have horrible Katy Gallagher with the ABC-TV camera crew barged into the hapless florists whom she sometimes patronises and wanted to know if things were all good and what’s any problems, the florist bravely volunteered that grubberment obligations was taking away too much time from their real job which is customer interfacing and actual product creation. Oh dear flint-heart Gallagher already knows this, but her job is to spend all the money on any kind of rubbish such as Bonehead Bowen’s expenses, or funding the muslim’s breeding programs, she is not in charge of reducing over-regulation or nonsense like the GST which is charged on small business then an approx equal sum goes from Canberra to “the Future Fund” which is for future politician and public servants retirement income. Yes that’s where the GST goes, John Howard made the GST and Peter Costello made the Future Fund ( smirk, smirk ) because they had too much money coming in from the GST. Alas they along with Keating had sold off all the income producing assets so the money has run out now. Their answer is to raise the GST and there will be some pitiful income tax adjustment bundled in for “fairness”. No, what’s fair would be if all the small businesses had their GST returned to them in the form of a big lump sum of superannuation, back-dated for earnings, and the politicians and public servants got nothing, because that’s what small business presently gets, is nothing, unless they contribute it themselves.
Politicians get the sack from the public, otherwise they would be stuck on forever, so they should not be paid, especially when they line up jobs with companies they unfairly assisted while in power.
We see the worthlessness of government writ large, they steal their pensions from the commoners in the florist shop, the government has no way of paying their own pension as they create nothing of value, and in the case of Katy Gallagher, they are wrecking the place and getting paid for it. The UnaParty is like the plantation owner and we are the niggers.
“This Albanese Labor Government clearly does not know the first thing about running a small business.” LOL. They understand perfectly and therefore understand perfectly how to bankrupt them.
Everyone must understand that t its the UN agenda that these clowns are pushing, crippling our producers to break the economy, dissolve our sovereignty, and flood our nation with 3rd world gov dependent peasants. There is no deterant, as so called Aussies continue to look the other way. She’ll be right mate ! …absolute disgrace ..
It is City of London Empire past 500 years at least, creating all wars since 1914 now with one world disorder global. Blending all creeds and colours into a melting pot.
We are not being replaced, we are replaced. Majority working here now not locals. Take a walk thru Chatswood, if you see more than 1 white in 50 say so. Ditto for Indians and Africans majority now in many suburbs. Remember, Tony Albo leads the gay parade every year and he’s our PM for crying out loud.
Banksters communism depends on the Uniparty here. “Komu sve, komu nista. Those employed in government banks corporations are dependant on the tit that feeds them. I came from Tito’s dictatorship where there was only 1 department store. Those connected had ‘sve’ and those not had ‘nista’. Similar to the mass media hysteria with Covid “you will have nothing”. Small business crushed mercilessly, as Bunnings, Coles Woolworths Aldi Westfield power on. Coal goes to CCP, ships lined up from Newcastle to Manly to be loaded, as Oz power stations are 95% shut down. What would our forebears think if here to witness the dismantling of all their blood sweat and tears making this nation the 3rd best economy in world in the 60’s and 70’s thanks to white Oz policy. All changed with Whitlam’s “It’s time”. Time for what, communism now entrenched pushing solar power wind mills as inflation with bills interest and taxes goes through the roof, where locals are pushed to ride bikes !
Wolves in sheep clothing by Fabian’s is the dictat for 6 eyes and beyond. The ‘wall’ came down for a reason, so that party members trained would be employed in the ‘west’ to manage all security and now everything else. For those that still have eyes to see, look around one belt CCP building high rise for ‘15 minute’ prisons and infrastructure with toll roads only for those privileged.
Unless usury and taxation are wiped out, there is no future for our youth shackled to debts that can never be paid off. The only beggars I see on the streets are whites, all by plan. As new immigrants the majority now in all hospitals councils etc. who can hardly speak English
The assault on Australian businesses and workers is not just Labour ideology. It’s a UNIPARTY project !
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How else could it be sustained so consistently and successfully since we began shutting down our manufacturing since the 70s? We’ve been sold out by both Labour and the Liberals. None of them obviously work for us. They’re all doing Self Service instead of Public Service.
LABOR ACTU have never run a successful business that doesn’t involve extortion .