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Kennedy loses bid to keep notes to lawyer from ASIC

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2004
... notes to his Swiss lawyer, Benno Hafner. ASIC is investigating whether Mr Kennedy, former stockbroker Rene Rivkin and former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson owned an undisclosed 38 per cent interest in printer Offset Alpine when it was destroyed ...

Business groups fear Labor government: Andrews

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2004
Business groups fear a federal Labor government will derail the economy, Workplace Relations Minister Kevin Andrews said today. Andrews attacked Labor and the Australian Democrats after the government overnight failed for the second time to pass laws ...

Labor targets audit committee chair in NAB fallout

AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2004
... National Australia Bank (NAB) as a result of its forex trading fiasco, singling out embattled board member Catherine Walter. Labor financial services spokesman Senator Stephen Conroy said Walter, chair of the NAB audit committee when losses from the ...

Sherry will keep his job despite super blooper: Latham

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2004
Labor's retirement incomes and savings spokesman Nick Sherry would keep his job despite bungling a pension plan announcement, Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. Senator Sherry this week apologised for an $8 billion mistake in the opposition's ...

Labor says we were wrong on super blooper

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2004
Federal Labor was yesterday forced to admit to an embarrassing bungle in its latest pensions promise and 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 ...

ASIC lack of funds behind lack of transparency: Labor

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2004
Inadequate funding could be behind the corporate watchdog's lack of transparency, Labor said today. Opposition financial services spokesman Stephen Conroy said the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) decision-making processes could ...

Conroy outlines CLERP 9 amendments

Shadow Minister for Trade, Financial Services and Corporate Governance Senator Conroy last week outlined several of Labor's latest amendments to the constantly evolving Corporate Law Economic Reform Program (CLERP 9) Bill. Conroy said that in its current ...

Kennedy fights ASIC over access to Offset Alpine papers

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2004
... notes to his Swiss lawyer, Benno Hafner. ASIC is investigating whether Kennedy, former stockbroker Rene Rivkin and former Labor powerbroker Graham Richardson owned an undisclosed 38% interest in printer Offset Alpine when it was destroyed by fire 10 ...

Latham lashes super schemes for high-end pollies

Superannuation schemes for federal MPs, judges and the Governor-General would be closed down under a Labor government, Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today. The schemes were well outside the community standard and were out-of-date, Mr Latham said. ...

Backlash continues over free trade agreement

... will be toughened, and there may be changes to Australia's local content regulations on cable and satellite television. Labor and the minor parties are likely to set up a Senate committee this week to examine the deal, although only parts of the agreement ...