The highly infectious Delta COVID variant is triggering lock-downs across the country. We look at what help is available and how you can get it.

The COVID-19 disaster payment is available to eligible workers who can’t attend work or who have lost income because of a lockdown and don’t have access to appropriate paid leave entitlements. And, it only applies from the eighth day of lockdown.

If you can’t work because you or someone in your household is impacted by COVID-19, there is support available, but it comes with fairly strict eligibility criteria.

There are two payments accessible to individuals: The COVID -19 Disaster Payment; and the Pandemic Leave Disaster Payment.

Don’t get me wrong here. ‘Mother hen’ is a reference used for any incumbent worker, both male and female, who have played a variety of roles within a business without a targeted skill set. Though they have been valuable in the initial stages of establishing the business through the entrepreneurial journey, the established business that is looking to grow and scale will no longer find this type of staff member effective or profitable.

A data-driven approach to business means using all that information to optimise existing business goals and investigate new possibilities. When a company is ‘data-driven’ they are making strategic decisions based on data analysis and interpretation of that data.

Inside this months’ small business tax update: What's changing on 1 July 2021, work from home expenses under scrutiny and the perils of browsing facebook, and how insurance proceeds are taxed.

In recent times, there have been many references to data being the 'new oil' that will drive economies as the most valuable resource in the world, including this headline that was published in The Economist back in 2017, “The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data.”