2 million self-employed
Their interests are our interest
It's your contract: Take control of it!
We say you should control your contract. Here's how. Check for clauses that are:
Red for Stop
Amber for Caution
Green for Go
You can also make use of our Contract Template to design your contract.

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You and Your Contract
Charter of Contractual Fairness.

Debate: Suck it up?

Contract problems?
Fixing business disputes
There's lots happening for new dispute resolution services for small business people. The Small Business Commissioner (SBC) model is being rolled out across Australia. Explanation of developments.
Watching: Self-employed entrepreneurs
Our discussion on enabling innovation
Watching: The coordinated attack against self-employed in Australia
Do unions hate the self-employed?
Federal tax attack
Sham contracting small problem
Watching: New Technology
Opportunities and new threats for self-employed people
Charles Dickens on debt and misery
'Income 20 pounds; expenditure 21 pounds; result misery!'
Bureaucracy can be so confusing!
The perils of designing a traffic sign
Great truths ...
25 great quotations
Our Campaigning
We need unfair contract protections
Defend contractor tax laws
Watching: Your Superannuation
Scary super stories

Abbott says ATO to administer Super

Super Review and Govt response.
Watching: Work Safety Laws
Harmonised laws have big problems.
Watching: Government Contracts
Military Aircraft (JSF)

National Broadband Network
Watching: Fair Work Act
We're watching

What the AIG wants
Handy ATO Links
Filing your tax return:
A member's problem
ATO advice

Handy ATO tax links:
ATO debt collection: overview
ATO debt collection: 'Products'
Guide to managing your debt
Not-for-profit tax guide
Lodge your BAS online
PAYG withholding tax tables
New tax form: Taxpayer Statement of Account
New tax form: Notice of Assessment
Mortgage scams
Small business support
Payment arrangement calculator
Want an ATO visit?
ATO Help for small business
ABN eligibility rules
Self managing your tax debt

Handy Super links:
ATO SMSF compliance
ATO free seminars.
SMSF Admin advice
New Super clearing house
Tax on SMSF loans
Watching Global Economies
Watching Global Economies
Watching the USA
Watching China
Central Banks on Debt
Watching Housing Bubbles
Ken Phillips on the debt equation

National Independent Contractors Summit 2009
Building relationships with the self-employed

Held in Melbourne, Thursday 12 November 2009

Conference Materials and Presentations

Listed below are selected presentations delivered at ICA's National Summit for 2009 in Adobe PDF format, together with some brief biographical details. Videos of the presentations will be available from this page in the near future. Please note that the PDFs on this page have been converted from the original PowerPoint presentations delivered at the Summit.

SpeakerBiography
Anne Zelvys
Junction Rd Dog Kennels		DetailsDownloadClick here
Daniel Bolger
BYTEXT Media		DetailsComing soonClick here
Dr Tui McKeown
Monash University		DetailsDownloadClick here
Vlad Dugandzic
Australian Taxation Office		DetailsDownloadClick here
Michele Levine
Roy Morgan Research		DetailsDownloadClick here

Jonathan Knowles and Pedro Fric
Entity Solutions		DetailsDownloadClick here
Fay Styman
Australian Taxation Office 		DetailsDownloadClick here
Symon Brewis-Weston
Commonwealth Bank		DetailsDownloadN/A
Steve Ciobo, MHR
Shadow Minister		DetailsN/AClick here
Prof. Patricia Leighton
UK/EU expert, labour law		DetailsDownloadClick here
Nigel Ridgway
ACCC		DetailsComing soonClick here
Mark Brennan
Victorian Small Business Commissioner		DetailsDownloadClick here
Barry Jones
Department of Innovation		DetailsDownloadClick here
Robert Gottliebsen
DetailsN/AClick here