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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 ...

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 ...

Govt seeks discretion to freeze super guarantee

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... and their 30s and their 40s and indeed their 50s will have tens of thousands of dollars less to retire on because Tony Abbott's decided to break his promise." He said the policy was an attack on ordinary people while politicians draw on their generous ...

Labor questions Murray, calls for another inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... next two weeks. Greens Senator Peter Whish-Wilson revealed yesterday that he has written a letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott, asking him to cast Murray aside from the chairmanship of the inquiry. "He was the CEO of the Commonwealth Bank until 2005 ...

Government still mulling response on Senate report

LAURA MILLAN AND AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2014
... set up a Royal Commission to investigate cases of bad advice, fraud and document forgery within CBA, prime minister Tony Abbott said he won't be rushed into a further inquiry. Instead, he wants to first consider the report on the issue. Mum and dad investors ...

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... government has not yet made its position public regarding the request for a Royal Commission. Last Friday, Prime Minister Tony Abbott said that the government needs to "carefully consider" the Committee's 500-page report. "We do obviously have an inquiry ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... Committee's recommendation that there be a royal commission into Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA). Prime Minister Tony Abbott said the government would "carefully consider" the parliamentary committee report. However he remained non-committal over ...

FEATURE: Gear up for retirement

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... say on retirement incomes policy further down the track." "[Superannuation] is on my mind, it's on [Prime Minister] Tony Abbott's mind. We're thinking about how we're going to make retirement incomes policy sustainable," Hockey said. As the superannuation ...