By RORY CURTIS – TWEED HEADS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DAYLIGHT savings has ended for another year and some normality can return for another six months until this crazy cycle starts all over again. To my knowledge, we are the only place on earth that has a time zone difference set to latitude instead of longitude that not only passes through an international airport but splits local roads and businesses. Maybe we should be leveraging off this anomaly more and turn it into a tourist attraction?
There are plenty of exciting events happening in the Tweed, with another successful Battle on the Border cycle event run from May 1 to 5, attracting 500+ competitors and thousands of spectators and film crews to the area. The Cooly Rocks on extravaganza is not far away, from May 31 to June 10. The Cooly Rocks on Crew is looking for potential sponsors and volunteers – if you can help for a few hours contact them via this website www.coolyrockson.mybigcommerce.com
For the first time in history, NSW’s peak business organisation, the NSW Business Chamber, has joined together with its fellow Chambers of Commerce from across Australia to launch a national small business campaign in the lead-up to September’s federal election.
The campaign has been titled “Small Business – Too Big to Ignore”, and will feature press, radio, television and online advertising, as well as a series of events in metropolitan and regional Australia between now and the election.
Small business employs seven million Australians, which is around 60 per cent of the Australian workforce and the NSW business chamber is providing a channel for the collective voice of Australia’s small business entrepreneurs and their staff to be heard and respected, for their needs to be acknowledged and made a priority of the next Federal Government.
This is about highlighting that the small business sector is crucial to the health and well-being of the Tweed and Australian economy.
Following the Australia Day long weekend floods the NSWBC provided $200,000 towards flood damaged businesses in the Mid North Coast and Northern Rivers regions.
This Flood Assistance Program has now concluded, with several chamber of commerce members across the Tweed receiving financial assistance from the NSW business chambers. Businesses in Murwillumbah received $18,500 and Tweed received $7500 to help them get back up and running after flood waters temporarily stopped their businesses from operating.
The next Tweed Chamber breakfast will be on Tuesday the 11 June, from 7am to 8.30am.
Speakers include:
– Justine Elliot MP,
– Peter Fenton, Director Oculus, presentation title: ’Tax issues for small business’, and
– Kay Strong Regional Manager Aus Industry, presentation title: ’Small business support form the Federal Government.
