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AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 SEP 2012
... downgraded its growth forecasts for the 17-nation bloc. In local economic news on Friday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABC) is due to release the June quarter international trade in goods and services figures, while the Australian Industry Group/Housing ...

Untargeted tax subsidies inept

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 AUG 2012
... fact that we give a little bit to low income earners isn't an excuse to give a huge amount to high income earners," he told ABC Radio last week.

Untargeted tax subsidies inefficient

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... fact that we give a little bit to low income earners isn't an excuse to give a huge amount to high income earners," he told ABC Radio yesterday.

Bad news sells

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... Australian) Rates outlook unnerves consumers (Australian Financial Review) Failure to win gold leaves Aussie consumers cold (ABC) Bad news sells, 'ey? There were a host of reasons cited for that 'woeful' consumer confidence number in one month - Europe ...

ASIC bans ABC LC auditor

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
The Australian Securities & Investments Commission has banned an ABC Learning Centres auditor from practicing for five years. The Australian Securities & Investments Commission (ASIC) said it has accepted an enforceable undertaking (EU) from Brisbane ...

Media Super funds film

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2012
... You Were Here starring Joel Edgerton and the highly successful Miss Fishers Murder Mysteries series, recently screened on ABC TV, featuring Essie Davis.

Austock sells PFM to Folkstone

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2012
... giving them approximately a 6% share. Austock is the former house broker and financial adviser to childcare centre operator ABC Learning, which collapsed in 2008 owing creditors $1.6bn, forcing the sale of 1200 childcare centers. Taxpayers contributed ...

NSW budget to focus on creating infra deals

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2012
... in overseas projects funneled back into NSW. Ahead of the release of the 2012 state budget, NSW treasurer Mike Baird told ABC radio that "it seemed to me very strange that we had our own superannuation fund that was investing significantly in infrastructure ...

Trio investor secures damages from adviser

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2012
... former financial adviser, after losing substantial savings in the Trio fraud. Wollongong-based legal firm RMB Lawyers told the ABC it has been representing the woman, who has a terminal illness and lost approximately $1 million when the superannuation ...

ASIC moves on insider trading

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2012
... sophisticated and more of the people we call gatekeepers have access to otherwise confidential information," Gibson told the ABC's AM program this morning. "And you'll see what is interesting is that many of the cases we've brought are against employees ...