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'We're living in the world China is making': Conference

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... aggressive approach to the world," Grant said. This is a long way from 2014 when Xi Jinping came to Australia and Tony Abbott described him as a partner for democracy, he added. "Now during an election campaign, after the signing of the Solomon Islands ...

Business leaders recognised

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... Australia and Campaign for Small Business. The list also included a number of politicians including former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, former NSW premier Mike Baird, former Victorian premier Denis Napthine and former federal Liberal ministers Philip ...

ZIRP to bring back "animal spirits"?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... time - actual capex was falling around mid-single digits and expectations were dropping in the low teens - and oh, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey were still Prime Minister and Federal Treasurer, respectively. But Gov Glenn did more since. The RBA cut interest ...

Financial services industry unites for marriage equality

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2015
... time. Australian Marriage Equality (AME), the organisation behind the campaign, will give the letter to Prime Minister Tony Abbott on August 17, the first day of the next Parliament sitting. Banking institutions supporting the initiative are ANZ, Bank ...

Labor demands to see Treasury papers on super

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2015
... Information request by Labor to federal Treasury allegedly shows the Expenditure Review Committee, chaired by Prime Minister Tony Abbott, was considering changes to superannuation tax concessions until Labor announced its superannuation plans. The Treasury ...

Is content king for super funds?

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... engage anybody. But putting it into the context of what Joe Hockey has just said about account based pensions or what Tony Abbott's been saying, that suddenly becomes relevant because people say, 'Oh, well here's a super fund with an opinion.'" He believes ...

Shadow Treasurer will go to election over super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... just four years. This is a challenge for budget sustainability that must be met right now." Bowen said Prime Minister Tony Abbott promised not to touch superannuation but already had by freezing the superannuation guarantee at 9.5%. The announcements ...

Super concessions key to tax review

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... super in this term of parliament and we have no plans to make adverse changes to super in the future," Prime Minister Tony Abbott said shortly after the budget was released. Government sources told Fairfax that Abbott is not planning to make changes ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... Minister Tony Abbot "promised" that this one would be a "pretty dull and pretty routine" budget. Then again, with Tony Abbott, we can never be sure. And then, there's the question of how many of the savings/spending measures would pass the Senate this ...

No changes to neg gearing, super in Budget

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... speculation that the government might act to limit negative gearing on residential property investment, when Prime Minister Tony Abbott was asked at a media conference if the tax breaks would be wound back, he answered with an unequivacol "No", reported ...
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