Small Business Economic Reform Roundtable

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Treasury released a July 2025 summary of stakeholder ideas from a Small Business Economic Reform Roundtable. The document captures reform proposals across productivity and resilience themes. On productivity, attendees suggested simplifying cross-state regulations, introducing a minister for red tape reduction, implementing small business impact statements for policies, reforming ESG supply chain compliance, incentivizing digital tool adoption including AI, and using digital tools for tax administration and data sharing across government and industry. On resilience, proposals included visa reform and apprenticeship incentives, workforce capability uplift through Group Training Organisations, supporting women/mature-aged and refugee/migrant entrepreneurs, women-led business procurement set-asides, co-investment funds for scaling, improving access to flexible finance and microfinance, potentially redirecting National Reconstruction Fund resources to Australian Business Growth, and business continuity planning. The document explicitly notes it does not constitute government policy or endorsement and was marked for internal distribution