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🇦🇺 Australian State Small Business Support Index 2026

Free business advice and start-up money in every Australian state and territory, 2026

Where a state or territory states it, free advice for a new small business runs to a median of 3 hours (range 0.75 to 4, 4 of 8 jurisdictions), read from each government’s own pages on 26 September 2026. None of the eight runs a general start-up grant for new businesses.

  • 3Median · hours of free business advice
  • 0.75 to 4Range · hours of free business advice
  • 4 / 8Sources
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  • New South Wales4
  • Australian Capital Territory4
  • Tasmania2
  • Victoria0.75
Advice only: median 3 (n 4)
Australian State Small Business Support Index 2026
SourceFigureStart-up money from the stateRead
New South Wales4 hours free · no state start-up grant or loanAdvice only
Australian Capital Territory4 hours free · no state start-up grant or loanAdvice only
Tasmania2 hours free · no state start-up grant or loanAdvice only
Victoria45 minutes free · no state start-up grant or loanAdvice only

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These sources were checked and do not state the figure. Who publishes is itself a finding.

The sentences as published
  • New South Wales: up to 4 hours of business advice in person, online or over the phone, each financial year (26 September 2026, sha 8be90dbc810deba4)
  • Australian Capital Territory: Both new and established businesses can get up to 4 hours of free tailored business advice on: (26 September 2026, sha be9b24b4bb886d89)
  • Tasmania: The New Business Support Service connects those intending to start a business, or those who have had an Australian Business Number (ABN) for less than 12 months, with advisors who can provide up to two hours of free business advice. (26 September 2026, sha 94626a603ab36a5a)
  • Victoria: One free 45-minute general business advice session and business action plan per business. (26 September 2026, sha 80f32dd70d148aff)
Methodology

Every row is a sentence quoted word for word from the named official page, read on the date shown and pinned to a hash of the page text we read. 4 of the 8 sources we could read state the figure; 4 do not and are listed as not published, never filled in. One row per state and territory: its official free business advice service, with the free hours when the official page states them, and any state grant, loan or training program a new business could use, each quoted from the official page. A jurisdiction with no such program on the pages read is recorded as none, never filled in. The index figure is free advice hours; jurisdictions whose page gives no number of hours count in coverage, not in the median.

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