business creation

31 January 2019

The future of freedom in Australia was dealt a blow at the start of the year with Senator David Leyonhjelm’s announcement that he will be resigning from federal politics to have a tilt at the state level in New South Wales. The Liberal Democrat Senator from NSW was one of precious few voices in Canberra who could be relied upon

30 November 2017

A new report from the Department of Industry has found that the Australian entrepreneurship downturn is worse than previously thought. Earlier this month the IPA’s new report on entrepreneurship, Reigniting Australia’s Entrepreneurial Flame, found that there were 15,000 fewer new businesses created in 2016 than in 2003 and a fall in business entry rate of 16 per cent. This finding, which was based on analysis of the ABS business counts data, is despite working age population growing by

5 November 2017

The Institute of Public Affairs has tracked the state of entrepreneurship in Australia since 2014. This research was developed by Dom Talimanidis, the IPA’s former Ian Mence Fellow for Entrepreneurship, and is now part of the IPA’s Cut Red Tape to Unleash Prosperity project. Talimanidis found that the rate of firm creation, a key measure of entrepreneurship, has decreased. This

5 November 2017

Australian entrepreneurship is in a state of stagnation, largely due to red tape, which is threatening our prosperity, according to a new Institute of Public Affairs report Reigniting Australia’s entrepreneurial flame: Finding the missing 275,000 businesses authored by IPA research fellow Matthew Lesh. The report finds business entry and exit rates remain below 2003-04 levels, across all states and territories