Small Business
The State Opposition has said a report showing a 37 per cent rise for business failures in Queensland in the December 2011 quarter shows business has little confidence in Labor's poor economic record.
"This Dun & Bradstreet analysis of business start-ups and failures paints a grim picture for Queensland and if things keep going like they have been under this tired, 20-year Labor government, it will only get worse," Deputy Opposition Leader Tim Nicholls said.
Labor's initiative to cut government red tape has been left rudderless by the Premier and the Treasurer with the Queensland Business Commissioner identifying just two issues of concern – ironically both spearheaded by the LNP.
LNP Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jann Stuckey said the issues – home sale contract forms and the mandatory code of practice in the local clothing industry – were issues taken up by the LNP but attacked by Labor.
The tired, 20 year old Queensland Labor Government has been rated the least popular in the country - in not one, but two small business surveys, with the tourism sector in particular struggling under the weight of Labor's increased taxes, charges and red tape, the State Opposition said today.
Shadow Minister for Small Business Jann Stuckey said a massive sixty five percent of Queensland businesses were reportedly dissatisfied with the Bligh government and more than half of Queensland's small businesses were also unhappy with the Gillard Labor government*.
Brisbane's much-loved The Island Party Boat foundered this week on Labor's red-tape.
LNP Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jan Stuckey questioned Labor's Small Business Minister Jan Jarratt why she allowed the river cruise business to sink.
Labor expected Queensland's struggling small business sector to believe the appointment of a single bureaucrat could cut through 90,000 pages of regulation that had overwhelmed the entire Office of Regulatory Efficiency.
LNP Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jann Stuckey questioned Small Business Minister Jan Jarratt today in parliament on how the new Business Commission would succeed where teams of other public servants had failed.
The tired 20-year Labor government's answer to red tape that 's choking Queensland business – is to employ one more bureaucrat, the LNP said today.
LNP Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jann Stuckey said the appointment of a single bureaucrat on election eve was pure tokenism from a long-term government out of ideas and lacking any commitment to supporting business.
Labor's new waste levy came under fire at this week's small business forum attended by owners/operators from Brisbane's inner-city and inner-west.
The new legislation, being pushed through by Labor before the end of this year, was branded a "nasty Christmas surprise" at the forum by the Shadow Minister for Small Business, Jann Stuckey.
Rather than protecting pay and conditions for clothing industry outworkers, Bligh Labor's mandatory regulations were likely to ship their jobs offshore, the LNP warned today.
LNP Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jann Stuckey said Labor's cumbersome red tape and onerous paperwork threatened to kill-off those clothing and textile jobs still left in Queensland.
Labor's carbon tax and pokie limits threaten the survival of Gold Coast surf clubs.
LNP Shadow Minister for Tourism, Manufacturing and Small Business Jann Stuckey said Labor's carbon tax and poker machine limits would have a huge impact on clubs and could force some to shut their doors.
The latest Australian Industry Group report into business regulation has confirmed Bligh and Labor's over-regulation was strangling small business, the State Opposition said today.
LNP Shadow Minister for Small Business Jann Stuckey said the AI Group report confirmed what small businesses right across Queensland had been saying for years - over-regulation was hurting.