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Govt bonds reach $237bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2012
... ALP government was elected in December 2007 it has increased 34%, compared to it's 134% increase during the Howard government's 11 year reign during 1996 to 2007. The RBA estimates that only 14% of this net external debt is held by the official government ...

Super tax subsidies don't favour the rich: Mercer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... paper coincides with the government's moves to trim back excessive middle class welfare, which surged under the Howard government through the health care rebate, increases to family income thresholds for child care support and family benefit payments ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... senior financial sector positions both in Australia and the US," added the Prime Minister. Russell is replacing Howard government appointee Mark Paterson AO who is heading back to Sydney to work with the new Liberal Party NSW state government. At the ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... possibly the government as several conservative senators are not expected to hold their seats. Recall that the Howard government won control of the senate in 2004 following the collapse of the Australian Democrats that saw its middle class voter base ...

Astarra pain spreads to super funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... new Federal legislation introduced this year, which replaced the previous award modernisation law under the Howard government, complicates the matter further. Second, while it is the super fund's responsibility to administer the transfer of the SG contributions ...

CPRS chaos poses big risks for fin services

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2009
... are likely to find it difficult to hold their support then Coalition Senators elected during the reign of the Howard government could be in for a tough fight. The risk for some segments of the financial serrvices lobby is that if the small Senate quotas ...

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... billion. Driving the liability growth is public sector employment climbing 34 per cent during the reign of the Howard Government from 119,000 to 160,000 and generous superannuation conditions that require notional employer super contributions of 21 per ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... tough one. Those were the days. Previous Federal Budgets handed down - especially towards the second half of the Howard Government and into now Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's first - provided dwindling interest among Australians. And this is mainly ...

ETS is upside down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... will simply drive us to buy cheaper goods or imports that don't have these cost imposts. "It would be like the Howard government introducing the GST but only applying it to exports," he said. Carmody said a much more effective model would be to penalise ...

Fix contributions, then worry about fees: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... "Would we be sloshing around in those overseas debt markets if we didn't have this $600 billion debt [left by the Howard government]. Our banks would not be at the behest of those in New York if we had SGC at 15 per cent not 9 per cent." "Our current ...