Bruce Billson and Kim Napier discuss upcoming internet domain name changes on ABC Radio Northern Tasmania.

The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Bruce Billson, has implored small businesses to take urgent action to safeguard their brand and identity on the internet.

The Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman Bruce Billson has welcomed the Albanese Government’s move to introduce legislation to ban unfair contract terms for small businesses. 

More than half of the nation’s big businesses are missing their own deadlines for paying their small business suppliers, according to the latest data from the Payment Times Reporting Regulator.  

Bruce Billson interview with Glen Bartholomew, ABC NewsRadio.

Changes to Commonwealth procurement rules that take effect today will create more opportunities for small business to win government contracts.

An increase in the national wage and higher superannuation payments are among a raft of changes starting on July 1.

If your business has a website domain ending in .com.au, you can now get a domain that just ends in .au.

Bruce Billson is calling on the community to join him today in saying a big thank you to the women and men running our small and family businesses.

Australian small businesses can now register a domain name of .au, allowing the .com,.net or .org to be dropped from your internet address (this means shoes.com.au can become shoes.au).