Piano teacher Joseph Adams said he was spurred to create the Australian Business Party after enduring years of being part of the ``forgotten and neglected'' small-business community.

He plans to run for the Fairfield mayoralty, a directly elected position.

He seeks prospective party members to run for Liverpool Council in September.

``People in small business are very hard workers and 70per cent of them in Australia are home-based,'' said Mr Adams, whose business is also home-based.

``For the first time in Australian history, the business community has a political party dedicated to its needs,'' he said.

``I'm not endeavouring to make the rich richer. We're about helping the people on the small end. We're interested in creating jobs and encouraging youth to get into small business.''

Mr Adams has no prior political experience but said his ambition was to have representation at the local, state and federal levels.

He said a particular sticking point for him was a Fairfield Council regulation which did not allow home-based businesses to employ people not residing in the home.

Home-based businesses in the Fairfield area can employ up to two people but they must be residents.

Liverpool Council allow non-resident employees to work within a home business, subject to conditions.

Liverpool Council's city planning director Adam Coburn said the council home businesses form ``part of a dynamic city such as Liverpool, where employment trends are changing, and provide an opportunity for people to live and work within the city''.

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