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Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... hearts are heavy across the nation tonight and as your PM and as your parliamentary leader of the great Australian Labor Party I accept responsibility. I gave it my all but it was not enough for us to win." Yes Virginia, right through to the end Rudd ...

FSC lobbies Rudd for last minute FoFA delay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... Lunch event in Sydney, FSC chief executive John Brogden said he'd seized on the opportunity presented by the dramatic Labor party leadership spill to contact Rudd and ask for the delay. "These reforms are wider and deeper than any reforms seen in the ...

Dissenting Coalition TASA report could impact independents

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... independents," Anderson said. Independent MPs will have the key to wether or not the TASA bill is amended, as the Labor Party needs independent votes to pass it. However, a dissenting report from the Coalition could make independents move to a different ...

FPA, AFA to lobby MPs for TASA delay

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... will negatively affect financial advisers. The bill is scheduled to be voted upon in Parliament tomorrow, after the Labor party blocked an inquiry about the Tax Laws Amendment bill in the Economics Legislation Committee last week. As a consequence, the ...

Govt loses, then wins vote on super legislation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
... boards was no longer appropriate in the 21st Century," Cormann said. "We are disappointed that Bill Shorten and the Labor Party continued to resist our efforts to achieve this important reform to improve superannuation in the Parliament today." He added ...

Super council won't prevent Labor tax raids

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 APR 2013
... statement with Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann and Hockey dismissed the government's measures. "So, the Labor Party tinkers with superannuation then pretends to set up a process to prevent further tinkering!" the statement said. He called ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... entertainment? I doubt that even the best of the best comedic minds could come up with a farce such as the one the Australian Labor Party delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the brouhaha about the leadership ...

Keep chasing architects of Trio collapse: Agencies

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Financial Standard that the group plans to put forward a candidate to challenge the seat currently held by Australian Labor Party politician Stephen Jones, as a result of the Gillard Government's alleged unfairness in awarding compensation in the wake ...

Trio Capital action group to put forward Federal Candidate

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... Financial Standard that the group plans to put forward a candidate to challenge the seat currently held by Australian Labor Party politician Stephen Jones, as a result of the Gillard Government's alleged unfairness in awarding compensation in the wake ...

Labor's $30bn secret super tax plan revealed

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2012
... superannuation returns and would lead to increased government revenue without the need for all these new and increased Labor Party taxes." With this in mind, Cormann suggests that Swan and Shorten should drop their secret $30 billion super tax plan a ...