Small business was lost in the budget and the budget reply in Canberra this week. For me, the best example is the hundreds of millions in benefits delivered to the free to air TV networks to enable them to fund structural change while small business newsagents continued to be ignored as we move through a more significant structural change of our own.
What did I expect? Not much … but this does not block my disappointment.
Politicians care only about where their money comes from and those with the loudest voices. One day maybe they will understand that investing in small business can deliver excellent rewards.