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Chief economist update: All Ords rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2018
... months. In turn, providing more uplift to commodity prices. Both would be beneficial for Australia. Domestically, both the Coalition government and the opposition Labor Party have promised tax cuts for us, Australians, all. Aside from the fact that no ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... for parents, health for the sick, roads and bridges for the travellers, and so on and so forth. And oh, despite the Coalition's generosity, the government's fiscal account is projected to be in surplus one year earlier - equivalent to 0.1% of GDP in ...

Budget means Aussies can get more from retirement

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
... help build a sustainable retirement," Breckon said. "After some major changes this decade it's gratifying to see the Coalition continuing to bed down superannuation policy, as well as helping people - especially young people just starting out in the ...

Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... tax incentives will come under closer scrutiny, as the government aims to save $2 billion over the next two years. The coalition is also proposing to change the tax treatment of stapled structures so that foreign companies will no longer get tax breaks ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... contrast to Australian government t net debt reducing from $350 billion to $319 billion over the same period. When the coalition government was elected in 2013, net Government debt was $160 billion; when the Rudd government was elected in 2007 Australia ...

FASEA consultation could sway retirement outcomes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... addressed in both the CIPR reforms and the FASEA consultation process. "Between these two reforms initiated by the current Coalition government, there is every chance that we can create a world-class retirement income system," the paper reads.

Enter the dragon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... (Abenomics lives on); and closer to home, New Zealand's election stalemate ended with the opposition Labor Party forming a coalition government with New Zealand First (expected to lead to a change in the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's conduct of monetary ...

APRA pushes for greater control over super

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... Measures No. 2) Bill 2017. Industry Super Australia public affairs director Matt Linden also spoke at the hearing said the Coalition is pushing ahead to make Australia's industry super funds more like the banks, with public hearings into a Bill that ...

Labor unyielding on banking Royal Commission

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2017
... would be important" for him to lift it to 12%. The Shadow Treasurer also commented Labor has yet to make a call on the Coalition's proposal of giving APRA more powers to give consumers greater flexibility over their super funds, adding the party will ...

Labor fights phoenix fraud

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
... account, yet the Government has barely raised a peep about phoenix activity," Labor Senator Katy Gallagher said. "The Coalition has chosen to continue its narrow, ideological agenda of delivering billions of dollars in tax cuts to multinational corporations ...