The Federal Government’s proposed $2 billion small business loan scheme is the wrong response to a real problem.
The decline of small businesses in Australia presents a substantial policy challenge.
In 2017 there were 6,000 fewer new businesses than a decade earlier, despite Australia’s working age population growing by 20 per cent, according to a recent report by my colleague at the Institute of Public Affairs Matthew Lesh.
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