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Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... cost-saving proposals including $1.2 billion of cuts to programs, which experts have said are aimed at Australia's working women. If elected this weekend, the Coalition's 'Superannuation on Paid Parental Leave - parental choice' would be introduced to ...

Perpetual Wealth Management adds five senior advisers

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2025
... serving clients across the country." Perpetual also said that Kent and Bosman will further strengthen Perpetual's 'Advice for Women, by Women' program, which focuses on the comprehensive and unique financial needs and goals of women. Close to 60% of ...

Government to 'crack down further' on financial abuse

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2025
... perpetrators of financial abuse, as part of its gender equality plan Building Australia's Future: Labor's Commitment to Women, launched yesterday by Labor senator Katy Gallagher and minister for social services Amanda Rishworth. In a joint statement ...

NGS Super to launch lifetime income product

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2025
... health (59%), enough money to enjoy life (41%), and good mental health (38%)." The report also revealed that a third of women over 60 (34%) are "extremely or very worried" about outliving their savings, compared to 20% of men.

Future Group positions super offerings for growth

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2025
... has directed its investments to companies that perform well when it comes to gender equality, including across pay parity, women in leadership, and inclusivity. The new option focused on gender equity will screen for the same five thematics as its Gender ...

The tax system is being weaponised to inflict abuse, ombudsman says

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2025
Over two million Australians, mostly women, have suffered financial abuse at the hands of an intimate partner, sometimes through the weaponisation of the tax system, with impacts that can be "devastating and long-lasting" to survivors and their families ...

Chalmers boosts Help to Buy scheme, construction sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... billion is pledged to the National Housing Infrastructure Facility (NHIF) to support crisis and transitional accommodation for women and children experiencing domestic violence and for youth experiencing, or at particular risk of, homelessness.

Payday super on track, but so is the $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... super tax benefit for some of the nation's lowest-income workers," SMC said. "Almost two-thirds of LISTO recipients are women - making a push to lift the LISTO a targeted measure to help close the super gender gap." However, SMC chief executive Misha ...

Government makes record commitment to Medicare

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... easier to see a doctor and get the care you need," Chalmers said. Further, the government has also pledged more resources for women's health, investing some $793 million into delivering better healthcare for around 8500 women who are set to benefit from ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... "Small businesses in the Asia Pacific form the backbone of developing economies and single mothers and other individual women entrepreneurs play a vital role," Tjoeng said. "By empowering women, whether they lead family enterprises or operate independently ...