** IMPORTANT INFORMATION**

Business Flood Survey

Has your business been affected by the recent flood event? The Queensland Government is undertaking a survey to assess the impact of a natural disaster on the affected businesses and the regional economy. Simply visit the natural disaster business survey here.

Red Cross – helping communities recover

Recovering your business from the impacts of the recent flood events can be stressful and exhausting – it’s a complex process that may take months or even years to overcome.

Red Cross are there to help the community recover from emergency-affected communities providing both practical and emotional support and information.  Visit the Red Cross resource page for more information or contact 07 4052 2500.

**ENDS**

Queensland Government Business Development
The one-stop shop for business information, licensing and assistance in Queensland

Queensland Government Business Risk Management

Queensland Department of State Development
A complete online solution to accessing business support offered by local, state and federal governments

Australian Government Business website
The Australian Government's agency for delivering products, services and information that support innovation, industry, science and research

Austrade
The Australian Government's agency for international trade development

Australian Tropical Foods
The food and wine industry portal for Tropical North Queensland

Australian Taxation Office (ATO)

Queensland Government - Ideas2market
Visit this site if you have an idea but are unsure of how to get it to market and harvest the wealth it creates.

Australian Industry Group (Ai Group) 
A  peak industry association in Australia which, along with its affiliates, represents the interests of more than 60,000 businesses in an expanding a range of sectors. These include manufacturing, engineering, construction, automotive, food, transport, information technology, telecommunications, call centres, labour hire, printing, defence, mining equipment and supplies, airlines. The represented businesses employ more than one million employees.

Australian Institute for Commercialisation
Provides innovation and collaboration services that help organisations grow

Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS)
Statistics and census data online

Chamber of Commerce & Industry Queensland

Commonwealth Government Services
Provides information on all Australian Government services, departments and more 

Indigenous Business Australia (IBA)
A progressive, commercially-focused organisation promoting self-management, self-sufficiency and economic independence for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people

Industry Capability Network Australia (ICN)
An organisation that introduces Australian and New Zealand companies to the supply chains of major projects

Queensland Manufacturing Institute (QMI) 
Dedicated to improving the skills, performance, innovation and capability of the Queensland manufacturing industry

Rural Skills Australia
Improves rural involvement in education and training, with a view to enhancing the skills and capacities of new entrants, existing workers and primary producers alike

Australian Securities and Investment Commission

Patent Information

Australian Department of Employment

Australian Competition and Consumer Commission

Troplinks
Taking Australian tropical expertise to the world