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Hockey defends budget backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey presented a budget he said focuses on Australian citizens' and businesses' opportunity to "have a go," despite hardening economic conditions. Hockey presented his 2015 budget as "the government's plan to strengthen our nation's ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
Shadow Treasurer Chris Bowen has given his backing to small business tax cuts made in the budget but has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... announced by Social Services Minister Scott Morrison prior to the budget release. Although in his budget speech, federal Treasurer Joe Hockey did say the Age Pension "will continue to increase, twice a year, this year, and every year - at the highest ...

Budget for uncertainty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... first-class dividend stock". I could only surmise that it's the uncertainty surrounding the great reveal of Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey's second Budget (or is it Social Services Minister Scott Morrison's first?). Prime Minister Tony Abbot "promised" ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... housing finance figures for March are released, the ANZ-Roy Morgan weekly consumer confidence survey is due out and Treasurer Joe Hockey hands down the federal budget in the evening. In equities news, Coca-Cola Amatil holds its annual general meeting ...

Dear mom, all's good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... is redeploy our savings and redeploy government expenditure into areas of growth in the economy". That's the Federal Treasurer Joe Hockey in black and white. And it gets better, better, better. Commodity prices are picking up - iron ore's up 1.2%, oil's ...

Terminally ill granted early access to super

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... superannuation in such cases, following consultation with Breast Cancer Network Australia and other organisations, Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg said. Under the current provision for early access to superannuation, terminally ill patients must ...

Gearing for SMSFs won't be significant: Colley

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... about gearing would change the investment pattern of self-managed fund trustees. "We've only just seen the assistant treasurer with something about gearing in SMSFs and what that will be I don't really know," Colley said. "It seems there might be a rule ...

Hockey launches Serious Financial Crime Taskforce

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
Treasurer Joe Hockey will allocate millions to a taskforce that will fight "serious and organised financial crime." The Government will provide $127.6 million over four years to the Serious Financial Crime Taskforce to investigate and prosecute cases ...

Frydenberg to decide on advice standards in June

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg is expected to release a final document outlining the measures to improve professional standards for financial advisers at the end of June. The Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) chief operating officer Phil ...