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FPA offers free advice to farmers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2007
... being trialled in the southwest NSW region of Sunraysia. The FPA approached the minister for agriculture, fisheries and forestry, Peter McGauran, in July and together with the Rural Financial Counselling Service Program created a taskforce to develop ...

Gunns fuels CG debate

... surrounding the mill." According to the same statement, the proposed mill will be the largest ever investment in Australia's forestry sector and will add around $6.7 billion, or 2.5 per cent to the Tasmanian economy. Michelle Baltazar

FPA lends farmers a helping hand

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... Dieters announced the launch of the project in Mildura yesterday with Federal Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry Peter McGauran. McGauran welcomed the FPA's pro bono work and said the project would help many. "I warmly welcome this initiative ...

Statewide launches target return investment option

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2007
... return investment choice. The Statewide Target Return Option invests entirely in infrastructure, property, private equity, forestry and collateralised debt. Statewide is following the lead of MTAA Super Fund that also offers a similar strategy. Both ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2007
... of goods and services that acted to reduce GDP by 1.4 percentage points. At the industry level it was the agriculture, forestry and fishing industries that detracted from the result to the order of 0.3 per cent. This latter result is what we have been ...

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... nonetheless criticised the ATO decision. "The changes announced by the Howard Government to the tax treatment of non-forestry managed investment schemes without proper consultation with industry could potentially threaten jobs and investment in rural ...

Fight the ATO not Govt on MIS tax ruling: Costello

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 FEB 2007
... investment community that the Australian Tax Office's proposition to scrap the up-front tax concessions associated with non-forestry managed investment schemes (MIS) will cause havoc. Treasurer Peter Costello has defended the ruling, emphasising that ...

Agribusiness cops a caning from ATO

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2007
Non-forestry agribusiness managed investment schemes (MIS) are set to have their taxation position drastically altered after Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday announced the Australian Taxation Office was preparing a new Draft Ruling on the ...

Employment mobility figures revised

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2006
... restaurants (38 per cent). Ten years or more of service was most likely to come from the following industries; Agriculture, forestry and fishing (51 per cent), Electricity, gas and water (42 per cent), Education (38 per cent) and Government administration ...

Noonan replaces Wason on CBUS board

CBUS director George Wason has been replaced on the fund board by fellow Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) official Dave Noonan, following an election held last week. The decision came amid reports in the Canberra Times of a Federal ...