With Friends Like COSBOA Luke Who Needs Enemies

COSBOA is the Council of Small Business Australia. According to its website:

We were created by people who believed that small business needed a voice that was not also representing big business – as a result, the Council of Small Business Australia is now the country’s peak body exclusively representing the interests of small businesses.

Interesting. Very interesting.

Now I seem to recall that a prior head of COSBOA was “charmed” onto the Prime Minister’s plane to travel to Canberra and gave support to one of the Albanese government’s most destructive economic polies through industrial relations:

Business groups have slammed a union deal with small business on multi-employer bargaining as risking further complexity for employers and potentially opening the door to mass strikes.

I wonder how multi-employer bargaining is helping small business - especially now that the Shoppies Union it trying it on through Maccas franchisees.

Business groups said the union claim, to be subject to a two-day hearing before a Fair Work Commission full bench in February, was an attempt to expand Labor’s “highly union-friendly supported bargaining stream into industry sectors it was never intended for”.

Given that COSBOA claims to exist to:

Promote and support the development of small businesses in Australia

I wonder howz that’s going.

But in the same news cycle, current head of COSBOA, Luke Achterstraat has written in the Oz about its “pre-budget submission for the Australian federal budget”. So what does COSBOA want?