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AUSTRALIAN SMALL AND MEDIUM BUSINESS

Our Charter

We support and represent small and medium businesses in Australia in a way no one else does.

We professionally challenge policy and policy actors, but we don’t do what peak industry groups do. We don’t proclaim to be ‘proud of our lobbying effort’, when all we’ve done is sit at ‘round tables’ and delivered mediocre outcomes. Like you, we’re tired of consultation for the sake of consultation. It’s time to challenge the system and deliver less complexity and reduce fees.

You join Small to Medium Enterprise Australia for only $100. And in doing so, secure access to the most progressive partners and companies who genuinely care about SMEs. They have to. Otherwise we wouldn’t have them on our platform.

  • LOBBYING

    Tired of the private sector bureaucracies that call themselves industry groups? Yeah so are we. CLICK

  • Change Management

    We’ve delivered for clients both here in Australia and in New Zealand. The key to our model is that we don’t believe in change for the sake of change. CLICK

  • Project Management

    Our project management division delivers any size project at rates almost no one can match. We deliver every time and take the pressure off you, so you can run your business as normal. CLICK

  • Executive Coaching

    You don’t need to do leadership alone. Our ASPIRE Program is dedicated to supporting you as a leader, as a business owner or someone who wants a career change. Either way we are here to support you. CLICK

  • Recruitment

    We do recruitment like no other organisation in Australia. We’ve recruited hundreds of quality people and we do it well. Moreover, no one beats us on our model or on price. CLICK

  • Business Insurance

    Business Insurance

    We’ve partnered with PSC Insurance Brokers to deliver a general and business insurance platform dedicated to small and medium businesses. CLICK

MEMBERSHIP

You secure access to our entire platform, all of our services, partners, genuine discounts and we lobby hard for change on your behalf for only $100 annually.

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Our Service Platform

We have the best partners: end of story. We either deliver the service in-house at discounted rates, or partner with some incredible firms who genuinely care.

Non-Government Sector

We’ve worked with some dedicated and talented non-government organisations (NGOs). Our focus has been on providing tailored strategic advice, implementing broad change management programs, to raising millions of dollars for clients through both State and Federal Governments.

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Lobbying: challenging the dinosaurs

You can continue to place your hope in stale, worn out peak industry group thinking and strategy - who are all captured by the system - and believe round-tables are still ‘innovative’, or embrace a fresh, vibrant, professional and hard-hitting approach to the future for SMEs in Australia.

The choice is yours.

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POLICY FOCUS

  • $5,000,000,000!

    The Australian Energy Regulator (AER) confirmed in March 2025 that the $5BN price tag for Project Marinus “..will be recovered through transmission charges levied on Victoria and Tasmanian electricity consumer.” That’s on business. WHY when there is a far better solution?

  • National Parks & State Forests

    National parks and state forests are owned by the people. Locking them out isn’t the answer. Effective management is.

  • Policy Outcomes

    We were so proud not to only be engaged by global manufacturers but to deliver an incredible outcome. We also secured Ministerial exemptions for remote use, military and Surf Life Saving Australia (SLSA) saving them millions.

  • Housing Affordability

    Roundtables don’t fix problems. Leadership does. House prices are going up and the only winners are the banks, mortgage brokers and real estate agents. The time for lame is over. We need to address the issue and yesterday.

  • Big Nuclear is Dumb

    We’ve had nuclear in Australia for over 60 years. But big nuclear is not the answer. Small Modular Reactors are. That’s why the US just signed a major deal with the UK and why one SMR can power the entire port of London. SMR’s also prove why Project Marinus across Bass Straight makes absolutely no sense.

  • Quad Bikes back on the US trade agenda

    We’ve reached out to the Trump Administration to advise them of the ridiculous decision the Australian Government made, that forced every respected global manufacturer of quad bikes to leave Australia. It was a disastrous decision and unnecessary. Guess what issue is now back on the trade table menu!

  • Tassies Market Garden Sector

    The Tasmanian Government is seeking to implement new food safety regulations that fail to differentiate between broad acre farming and small cottage based market gardeners. It could make small farmers unviable and yet there is a far better policy soluiton.

Tired of the SPIN Series

As Richard Denniss from the Australia Institute rightly points out, Norway effectively taxes the fossil fuel industry and uses these funds to provide their children with free higher education. In Australia we subsidise the fossil fuel industry and charge our kids a fortune to go to university. Hence, the Federal Government receives more money from HECS repayments, than it does from the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax.

For decades peak industry groups who represent small and medium businesses have accumulated hundreds of millions in membership fees. And yet, it’s never been so hard to run a business in Australia. Our model is very different: we say NO. Our goal is less complexity, smaller government and policy that delivers for SMEs not controls them through unnecessary and excessive rules and regulations.