What small businesses really want from the budget

What small businesses really want from the budget

Australians are spending less,and the government has ruled out cash injections in Tuesday’s federal budget. Small business is caught in the middle.

  • byJessica Yun

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‘There is trepidation’:Why business owners like Jared are worried about their future

‘There is trepidation’:Why business owners like Jared are worried about their future

Spiralling costs,high interest rates and lower spending are driving more businesses into insolvency.

  • byAndrew Taylor
Bonza’s lessors push ahead with plans to remove planes from Australia

Bonza’s lessors push ahead with plans to remove planes from Australia

Lawyers told the Federal Court that Bonza’s aircraft leases had been terminated last week,while emails confirm its backers knew in March of a plot to shut it down.

  • byAmelia McGuire
All Bonza flights cancelled until Wednesday with no refunds imminent

All Bonza flights cancelled until Wednesday with no refunds imminent

Bonza administrator Hall Chadwick says early discussions with the owners of the airline’s grounded fleet will continue into next week,with all flights cancelled before then.

  • byAmelia McGuire
Refunds up in the air as Bonza leaves passengers grounded

Refunds up in the air as Bonza leaves passengers grounded

Administrators Hall Chadwick confirmed late on Wednesday that the airline was not currently positioned to issue refunds after it entered administration on Tuesday.

  • byAmelia McGuire
The global turbulence behind Bonza’s backers
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The global turbulence behind Bonza’s backers

Bonza airlines was tipped into voluntary administration. But its problems are just part of wider questions being asked about the financial health of its backer,US investment firm 777 Partners.

  • byAnne Hyland
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Bonza enters voluntary administration after cancelling all flights until Friday
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Bonza enters voluntary administration after cancelling all flights until Friday

The airline’s boss Tim Jordan confirmed all Bonza flights have been grounded ahead of the company’s voluntary administration filing.

  • byAmelia McGuire andSarah Danckert
Nothing Bonza in this brutal chapter of Australian airline history
Opinion
Aviation

Nothing Bonza in this brutal chapter of Australian airline history

Grounded planes,stranded passengers:Bonza looks like the latest casualty to join the Australian aviation graveyard.

  • byElizabeth Knight
Big companies dodge spending crunch as small businesses face rising failure risk

Big companies dodge spending crunch as small businesses face rising failure risk

Large corporations,including supermarkets,have become more resilient,but smaller retailers are facing greater risk of failure as the consumer spending crunch drags on.

  • byMillie Muroi
Cladding fire at high-rise building blamed for top architecture firm’s liquidation

Cladding fire at high-rise building blamed for top architecture firm’s liquidation

The architects behind some of Melbourne’s most prominent buildings,including the curvaceous Beyonce-inspired Premier Tower,say the Lacrosse tower fire in Docklands sent them broke.

  • bySarah Danckert
Why no one wants to start a small business any more

Why no one wants to start a small business any more

Australia’s 2.5 million small businesses are collapsing at a rapid rate – and there are many who say the government is adding to red tape rather than reducing it.

  • byJessica Yun