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'About bloody time': Industry responds to PPL super reform

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2024
The wealth management industry has overwhelmingly welcomed the federal government's commitment to pay superannuation on the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave scheme. The Albanese government has said, if it wins the next election, it will add superannuation ...

Government passes FAR legislation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2023
The Financial Accountability Regime (FAR) passed the upper and lower houses of parliament yesterday, more than four years after it was first introduced. The Financial Accountability Regime Bill 2023 will apply to the banking industry six months after ...

Government pledges $2bn to fast-track social housing

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 19 JUN 2023
... "We know that supply is an important part of addressing the housing challenges we inherited from the former Liberal government. This funding will help build more of the rental homes that Australia needs. "We could do even more if the Senate stopped blocking ...

Liberals should liberate Australians from super: Bragg

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2022
... waste early access withdrawals on luxury expenditure." "That's what happened during the COVID period when the Liberal government had no control or monitoring plan on who was granted early access to super savings. "This portion of the population will ...

Labor won't support YFYS Bill in current form

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2021
... released its final report on YFYS reforms yesterday, a week later than initially planned. In the meantime, the Liberal government has released draft regulation for the reforms, incorporating two of the many demands from the industry: inclusion of administration ...

Release the Retirement Income Review: Labor

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
... government to increase the pension. Not by a small amount, but a very large amount." He added that under a Liberal government, he did not think there was any possibility that the pension would increase. "With super cuts and the pensions frozen, there ...

Labor says yes, economists say no to SG rise

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... of working Australians and using the cover of COVID-19 to try and get away with it." Rudd said the current Liberal government is using the argument that the increase of the SG will depress wages growth; an argument that he vehemently disagreed with. ...

AMP should stop whining: Slater and Gordon

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... about how inconvenient it is for ordinary Australians to want their money back." He added that he thinks the Liberal government's inquiry into class actions is being driven by a business lobby and that big business doesn't want to have to worry about ...

ISA condemned by union

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... fact that the union views nuclear power and uranium mining as a deadly threat to workers. "With the Federal Liberal Government totally incapable of leading on energy policy, we think ISA should take a leading role in energy investment, but it must not ...

Labor responds to 'unfair' Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... Australians will be most disadvantaged by this year's Budget proposals. Opposition Leader Bill Shorten said the Liberal Government's budget is "unfair" and favours big business. In a series of Tweets, Shorten said the 2018-19 Budget fails the fairness ...
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