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Chief economist update: Australia needs China more than it needs us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... serves me right, exports to China is worth around 1.4% of Australian GDP. If Australia- China trade stops completely, Canberra loses US$88 billion worth of exports to Beijing. China improves its trade balance as it stops imports worth US$58 billion from ...

SISFA relaunches membership to SMSF trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... needs of trustees without involving them in the discussion." SISFA said ordinary SMSF members need a louder voice in Canberra and greater support from the industry. Additionally, it said it will be offering SMSF members a new annual membership rate of ...

Former CBA executive nabs industry body lead role

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... sustainability; and six years as a director of corporate and public affairs at Woolworths Group. He also spent 10 years in Canberra working as a ministerial media adviser. This includes a period as a federal director of the National Party of Australia ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Forget Australia's simmering political and trade tension with China, there's one building right inside our very borders. Canberra's worried that Beijing's ban on beef imports, increased tariff on barley could extend to boycott of Australia's ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... ban/boycott could expand to other commodity and services - education and tourism - exports should Beijing's beef with Canberra persist. Sadly, Australia would hurt more than it would hurt China. Data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...

Property takes $237m hit

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... improvement in sales value. Clearance rates have also dropped across Eastern Australia, except for the nation's capital; Canberra. The findings come out of the City Analytics Lab in the Futures Research Centre at UNSW, who in response to the pandemic ...

Coronavirus no match for Future Fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAR 2020
... thanks to its diversification. Appearing before the Senate Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee in Canberra yesterday, Arndt was asked about the Future Fund's capacity to handle the investment impact of the coronavirus by Tasmanian ...

Academics protest UniSuper investments

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
... expansion". Market Forces said the protest - organised to take place at a Universities Australia event sponsored by the fund in Canberra - is part of its ongoing campaign to "pressure UniSuper to align its investments with the Paris climate agreement." ...

FASEA extension passes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
... chief executive Dante De Gori responded to news of the bill passing on LinkedIn, saying: "The FPA policy team was in Canberra today - and I am pleased to confirm the bill passed the House and this included support from Labor - meaning the bill should ...

Future Fund returns 14.3% for the year

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... they are now slightly below the 10% mark and sit at 9.9%. The fund also said that it acquired a "material interest" in Canberra Data Centres at the end of 2019. "Equity markets performed strongly in the last quarter, supported by easy monetary policy. ...