{"id":5749,"date":"2013-05-17T09:33:29","date_gmt":"2013-05-16T23:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/?p=5749"},"modified":"2025-08-25T21:22:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:22:49","slug":"one-coin-two-sides","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/05\/one-coin-two-sides\/","title":{"rendered":"One coin, two sides; One budget, two perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are always two sides to a coin, two side to a story and <a title=\"What does April Fool communicate?\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2013\/04\/april-fool-communicate\/\">two perspectives<\/a>\u00a0to view things by.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5753\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sides_of_coin.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5753\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5753\" src=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sides_of_coin-300x158.jpg\" alt=\"sides of a coin, balancing attention vs avoidning costs\" width=\"300\" height=\"158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sides_of_coin-300x158.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sides_of_coin-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/sides_of_coin.jpg 417w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5753\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which perspective do you chose? Or does it depend on the sides of a coin?<\/p><\/div>\n<p>On Tuesday, the <a title=\"Australian Government Budget\" href=\"http:\/\/www.budget.gov.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Federal Budget<\/a> was announced.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read quite a few summaries of the Budget so I can write updates for clients. Some are better than others, of course.<\/p>\n<h2>Perspectives of the Federal Budget<\/h2>\n<p>However, my point relates to how <a title=\"Are you part of the SMB trends for online activity?\" href=\"http:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/2012\/08\/smb-trends-for-online-activity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">small business<\/a>\u00a0is impacted by this\u00a0Budget. Noting that small business\u00a0got very little\u00a0direct mention by the\u00a0Government in this budget.<\/p>\n<p>A number of business groups have released their view that Government ignored this significant sector of our economy. As advocates of this\u00a0diverse group, they are annoyed because small business\u00a0don&#8217;t appear to have been included.<\/p>\n<p>Yet another business group or two has put out the view that small business was lucky to have avoided the attention big business got in the Budget. I for one am glad we don&#8217;t have to report PAYG each month, for instance.<\/p>\n<p>Both views are based on the\u00a0 same fact (little mention of small business) but are looking at it in different ways. I found that very interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government made little reference to the small business sector in the 2013 Budget. There are two ways to view this fact&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1425,53],"tags":[1325,1625,622,901],"class_list":["post-5749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-communications","category-business-info-tools","tag-budget","tag-coin","tag-perspective","tag-small-business"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12846,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5749\/revisions\/12846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordconstructions.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}