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Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... kinder surprise (good or bad) - that is yet to be unveiled. But one thing, I won't be surprised about is if Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison provides a more optimistic assessment and outlook for the domestic economy. Not only would a lift in Australia's ...

Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Federal treasurer Scott Morrison is laying the groundwork for a boost in national infrastructure investment after unveiling changes to the way government debt is reported. In his final pre-budget speech, delivered to the Australian Business Economists ...

Home deposits unwelcome in super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2017
... retirement savings system away from addressing the nation's housing affordability problems. Earlier this week Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said the government is likely to address housing affordability in its May Budget, and there have been several ...

APRA urges banks to raise capital

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... were to re-accelerate, while advancing the implementation of the regulatory reform agenda," the review said. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison welcomed that IMF review, highlighting the need for the government to press ahead with a program of "fiscal ...

Government repeats fintech focus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
Addressing the G20 Conference, Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison praised robo-advice and called on other governments to begin considering investing in 'regtech'. Speaking in Wiesbaden, Germany, Morrison told delegates more must be done to evolve and ...

MYEFO: Surplus of promises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
Beam me up Scotty! That's the underlying message from Australian Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison's Budget update where the Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) report showed the budget deficit beamed up by a cumulative A$10.3 billion over the ...

AustralianSuper, IFM Investors buy Ausgrid in five weeks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... investors. A spokesman for IFM Investors confirmed the consortium began preparing its unsolicited proposal the moment Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison knocked back a foreign investment bid on August 19. Both IFM Investors and AustralianSuper have paid ...

Aussie government bond flaunts confidence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
... to the Australian government's 30-year bond demonstrates both foreign and domestic confidence in the country. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said the bond raised $7.6 billion from investors and the historic issue attracted bids totalling almost double ...

AustralianSuper and IFM seek energy asset

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 SEP 2016
... prices, cuts to services and job losses. ETU secretary Steve Butler said the unsolicited offer came a month after Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison blocked a similar sale of the company, citing national security concerns. "The Federal Government has been ...

ASIC investigating ASX outage

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison has confirmed that ASIC is investigating September 19's significant disruption to ASX trading. The ASX has blamed the outage, which was the longest in five years, on a "hardware failure" though no other details were ...