The Business Growth Fund is a new bid to free up equity investment for SMEs with encouraging growth prospects – in theory, this will mean access to cash without the need to give up a controlling stake in your business. Based on UK and Canadian models, the idea is for government to partner with banks and super funds to inject equity capital into the new fund, kicking off with $100 million in public money for a projected total of $1 billion once matured.

You’ve landed that big interview – now plan for success by avoiding these common pitfalls. These days you need to do more to land a job than simply run a comb through your hair, type up a resume and perfect a firm handshake. Modern job-hunting can seem like a full-time occupation. All that searching and scrolling; an endless churn of cover letters and CV edits; being hopeful, then discouraged, then mainly just bewildered.

Right now, crocheter Paula Risanto is feeling a bit envious of her one-year-old son, Ren. He gets to wake up in what was - until recently - Paula's dedicated craft room, complete with wall of yarn, neatly filed craft books and accessories, and a heap of super-bright half-done crochet projects. "I'm kind of jealous, actually, because I want to wake up with a wall of yarns!"

Former teacher and professional creative Kate Fisher is the artist behind KatFish Collection, a range of acrylic jewellery and bespoke pieces that's cute, colourful and sparkly - just like her craft room. Here, Kate shows off her wares, and her extremely neat storage solutions, in the place she calls her "comfortable little bubble".

The end of the financial year wraps up June 30. That means from July 1st, it’s tax season. For sole traders and partnerships using myTax, you’ll need to lodge by October 31st, or if you’re lodging through a registered tax agent, they can advise on the date. Small companies generally need to lodge by February 28th, though – again – if you’re going through a tax agent they will let you know when to lodge.

It might not be mid-winter yet - we know because we can still feel our toes - but there is definitely a chill in the air. This means you're officially allowed to sit in front of the telly and craft. Whether you're curled up in front of your favourite baking show, bingeing a crime drama, or indulging in the kind of so-bad-it's-good reality TV where rich people scream at each other all day, you'll want a satisfying project to pair with your screentime.

When you think about it, the life of a stock photographer sounds a bit odd and great: take photo, upload shot, watch it go pretty much everywhere from news blogs to memes to mags (and probably the side of a bus or two). But what do they actually do all day? We asked three of our favourite Stocksy shooters about their imagery, the importance of arses, and what it’s like to work with a doona on your head.

Bryan Cush’s Sawdust Bureau workshop used to house a lot of things that go bang. Constructed in the 1870s to hold explosives for Victoria’s gold-mining boom – and, apparently, stockpile gunpowder in case the colony had to go to war against New South Wales – Jack’s Magazine in Melbourne’s inner west is a heritage-listed complex with a narrow-gauge train track running through it.