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Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... liabilities surging faster than anticipated sets up a potential flashpoint between the Future Fund's board of guardians and the Rudd government because while the fund is widely expected to be a major financier behind some of the government's national ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Union (CMFEU) and the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union (AMWU), have written a strongly worded letter to Prime Minister Rudd appealing for him to abandon his plan. While not rejecting the government's fiscal argument outright about rising longevity ...

Pension age lift under fire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
When the Rudd government announced it wants all students under age 20 to stay in education unless they find a job, hardly anyone complained. But its announcement to marginally lift the pension preservation age is creating a furore. In Tuesday night's ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Generally positive reactions by wealth managers to the second Rudd-Swan federal budget indicate the industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... would be suffering from Budget diarrhea. For there is no escape...everywhere you turn, it's Budget 2009 - the second for the Rudd Government and the first in contemporary Australian history of a tough one. Those were the days. Previous Federal Budgets ...

Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... government for penalising high income earners, but Michael Moore said these criticisms are unlikely to have much impact if the Rudd government points to the previous government's record on core versus non-core promises. But minor parties in the Senate ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... there earning $150,000 a year. There is a question about fairness in Australia to how you balance it out," Prime Minister Rudd told Fairfax Radio this morning. The Prime Minister's statements reinforce speculation that next month's budget may seek to ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... last year, a group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy wrote to Prime Minister Rudd proposing that employer super contributions be temporarily cut from 9 to 6 per cent with the money transferring to employees ...

We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... Malcolm, eat your heart out. This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner patting the back of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as he went a-visiting in the good old US of A. This was a perfectly executed diplomatic protocol if ever there was one ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
... an era blotted by outrageous 'golden handshakes' and excessive bonuses. Under legislative reforms announced yesterday, the Rudd Government will change a section of the Corporations Act to reflect that a company must get shareholder approval for any termination ...