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Australia well-insulated against US rate hikes: Costello

AAP  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2004
Australian Treasurer Peter Costello today said Australia was well-insulated against expected rate rises in the United States, but declined to say whether he saw another rate hike in his own country. "There seems to be a general view that as the American ...

Business puts competitiveness before national security, survey shows

... almost 44% of members ranked international competition the most critical issue that had to be addressed by Treasurer Peter Costello. Availability of skilled workers (39.8%), personal tax levels (39.7%), the superannuation guarantee levy (33.6%) and company ...

BAD tax to be scrapped

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2004
... territory governments today agreed to shoot down the Bank Accounts Debit (BAD) tax more than four years after Treasurer Peter Costello put the tax in his sights. The meeting of federal state and territory treasurers agreed the BAD tax would be scrapped ...

Sherry will keep his job despite super blooper: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
... Senator Sherry this week apologised for an $8 billion mistake in the opposition's pension policy after Treasurer Peter Costello said the policy had been incorrectly calculated. Latham reiterated that the document Senator Sherry had used to formulate ...

Labor says we were wrong on super blooper

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
... confessed it had no plans to pay retirees an extra $25-a-week. The opposition owned up to the mistake after Treasurer Peter Costello seized on Opposition Leader Mark Latham's definition of the pension benchmark. Latham said this week a Labor government ...

Australia close to full employment: Costello

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2004
Treasurer Peter Costello today said Australia was getting close to full employment at its current jobless rate. Figures for February put the jobless rate at 5.7%, up from several months at 5.6%, a level which has not been bettered since the early 1980s. ...

Interest rates expected to stay on hold

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2004
... 47% to $46.8 billion last year, due partly to a 30% rise in the Aussie as well as a weak world economy. Treasurer Peter Costello said the current account deficit was still significant and showed Australia's farm exports had not yet recovered from the ...

Costello unveils changes to retirement incomes

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Treasurer Peter Costello today unveiled plans to keep older people in the workforce longer and encourage retirees to take their superannuation savings as a pension rather than a lump sum. Outlining a key plank in the coalition's re-election strategy ...

Baby boomers to be urged to rethink early retirement

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Baby boomers will be urged to rethink their retirement plans in a major speech by Treasurer Peter Costello today, which will form a cornerstone of the coalition's re-election strategy. Costello is expected to push later retirement and measures to encourage ...

CPA Australia welcomes FSRA allowances

Accounting body CPA Australia has welcomed an announcement from Treasurer Peter Costello that accountants will be allowed to provide some advice to clients on self-managed superannuation under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA). Costello said ...