'Not overly difficult': federal departments pushed to pay up

By Thomas McIlroy
Updated October 16 2017 - 8:13am, first published 7:50am
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Some of the federal government's biggest spending departments could require contractors to pay their supply chain businesses within 30 days, as part of a campaign by Small Business Ombudsman Kate Carnell.

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