Recognise and mobilise Australia’s ‘missing middle’: IISA


Joseph Brookes
Senior Reporter

A small and misunderstood cohort of medium-sized firms could hold the key to addressing Australia’s structural prosperity issues, according to the federal government’s top industrial policy advisers.

The medium-sized companies — typically defined as private enterprises employing 10 to 199 people — pay higher wages and are more productive and innovative than smaller businesses, while also acting as a crucial economic conduit and export source.

But they have remained a …

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