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ASX and Bank of China sign major agreement

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Australian dollars and, in future, RMB. The signing of the agreement was attended by the Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Xi Jinping, President of the People's Republic of China. Elmer Funke Kupper, ASX managing director and CEO, said: "The ...

Ruble trouble

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 NOV 2014
Chances are there won't be any "shirt-fronting" happening in Beijing when Prime Minister Tony Abbott faces-off with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Beijing this week. Tony doesn't have to, Russia's very own central bank have done it for him days ...

Arthur's back. Wait, no he's not

COLIN BRINSDEN, AAP ECONOMICS CORRESPONDENT  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
The Abbott government's announcement of an improved register for the beleaguered practitioners was marred by an embarrassing blunder. Treasury was forced to issue a rare apology after mistakenly making the announcement under the name of suspended frontbencher ...

Climate induced GFC a 'very real' risk: Hewson

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 14 OCT 2014
... emission reductions and so on, and [the Australian government] will be playing catch-up. It's almost a siege mentality in the Abbott cabinet these days on the issue of climate change, which I find offensive and bizarre." Hewson's comments come the day ...

Instos get serious about climate change

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 3 OCT 2014
... as AMP Capital, AustralianSuper, Colonial First State, BT Group, UniSuper, HESTA, Cbus and BlackRock - also wrote Tony Abbott an open letter calling for the Renewable Energy Target (RET) to be upheld. It appeared as a full-page ad in the Australian Financial ...

Don't ditch the RET, instos tell Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
A group of Australia's biggest institutional investors has written an open letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott calling on him to maintain the Renewable Energy Target (RET). The call came from the Investor Group on Climate Change (IGCC), a body which ...

Govt to amend fund merger tax laws

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2014
The Abbott government has announced that it will go ahead with amendments to the tax rules around fund mergers to ensure members caught up in such mergers are not inadvertently hit with tax penalties. The amendments were proposed by the previous Labor ...

Calendrically weak

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... group (and has dragged Australia along with it - but no, we're not sending combat boots on the ground, according to PM Tony Abbott, not yet at least). Think of all the money that'll now be wasted as they are redirected from expanding productive capacity ...

Abbott's SG claim incorrect, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... own - not their employees' - pockets, according to survey commissioned by industry fund Sunsuper. This contradicts Tony Abbott's claim last week that the SG rise, which his government put on hold until 2021, would come "out of workers' pockets". The ...

SG freeze to hit young and low income earners hardest

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... creation of a two-tier super system, with inequitable access to tax concessions depending on income." Prime Minister Tony Abbott defended his decision to freeze the SG on ABC's 7.30 last night, saying: "The SG levy comes out of workers' pockets, so by ...