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Let's make the ETS workable: BCA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 AUG 2008
... structures than their competitors and it could cause them to lose their economic advantages, he said. Gailey said this is a huge problem because these exporting businesses collectively account for half of Australia's exports and employ up to one-tenth ...

Climate change opportunities, not just costs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... recently in China he said to the Chinese that we are the world's biggest coal exporter and they are the biggest buyer. We have a huge interest in finding a solution around coal particularly concerning carbon capture and storage," said Senator Wong. Other ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... expected last month and to another drop in oil prices that took crude as low as $US118 a barrel. But the Fed gave stocks a huge push higher in the last hours of trading. In a statement accompanying its widely expected decision, the Fed reported that ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2008
... European share prices suffered steep falls on Friday as oil prices climbed and US automaking giant General Motors reported a huge loss. In London, the FTSE 100 index shed 57.2, or 1.06 per cent, to end the week at 5,354.70. FRANKFURT - The DAX fell 83.1 ...

AMP launches Loan Cover

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... distribution base via financial planners, only a small percentage of people talk to a financial planner. "Mortgage brokers touch a huge volume of people, in fact 40 per cent of mortgages go through mortgage brokers."

Paid maternity leave must include super: AIST

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... hand if we want the best outcome for mothers". Reynolds said time out of the paid workforce to raise children comes at a huge cost to mothers, with a six year career break costing the average wage earner upwards of $77,000 in lost retirement savings. ...

Population hits 21.2 million

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2008
... migration is one-and-a-half times what is required to replace the people in Australia who die. The commodities boom is causing huge distortions in the State growth patterns. According to the ABS, the frontier States of Western Australia, Queensland and ...

Mercer Wealth on adviser recruitment spree

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
Huge volumes of financial advice-related phone calls, numbering more than 1,500 a day, spurred Mercer Wealth Solutions (Mercer) to expand its planning network to include self-employed financial advisers. David Anderson, Mercer outsourcing business leader ...

AUD hits 24 year high against greenback

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... year. Against the Euro and the Chinese renmimbi the AUD also grew 2 per cent although against the Indian rupee the AUD grew a huge 7 per cent since 1 May. Over the last year the short term country patterns however diverge as while the 16.2 per cent growth ...

House prices 30 pct overvalued

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2008
... Australian house prices over the last decade has been far bigger than in the US." "Secondly, and more fundamentally, the huge surge in Australian house prices has left them very expensive and overvalued." The result is that the ratio of house prices ...