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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Steve Evans

With a wave of small businesses going bust, watchdog calls for govt help

The government's champion of small businesses has warned that Australia is in danger of "sleepwalking" into a "big corporate' economy".

The importance of the country's small, family-run enterprises in the economy has fallen steeply - and the trend needs to be reversed for the country's economic good, according to the Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman.

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