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Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2006
... the Sydney Futures Exchange at 0727 AEST, the September share price index contract gained 20 points to 5,010. The NSW government will meet with Westpac today over a proposal to move almost 500 of the banks administrative jobs offshore. The military coup ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... economy has not started to slow despite a couple of interest hikes this year and many months of high fuel prices. The NSW Government has decided to move 239,600 workers under the age of 18 away from the federal Work Choices scheme back to the state based ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2006
... and the fuel bill for NSW has increased by about 40 per cent in two years, from $202 million to $280 million. The NSW Government has committed to reducing the public sector workforce by 5,000 over the next two years which falls far short of the request ...

After failed IPO, Snowy Hydro still top rated

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... precise factors why the NSW Iemma Government wanted to sell SnowyHydro even though poor political management by the NSW Government forced the Prime Minister to scuttle the sale in June. "Such factors together mitigate its higher business risk compared ...

Former NSW Treasurer joins HOSTPLUS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2006
... Public Accounts Committee where he worked with Labor Premier Bob Carr and Treasurer Michael Egan to examine the NSW Government's unfunded superannuation liabilities. Collins replaces outgoing HOSTPLUS independent director John Burge effective 1 July ...

Pillar to get $4.5 million IT upgrade

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2006
... get a $4.5 million IT hardware and data storage upgrade. The development initiative was announced in yesterday's NSW Government Budget. Pillar is wholly owned by the NSW Government. In its Budget statements, the NSW Government announced that the development ...

SnowyHydro snow job?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... Party which supposedly opposes the Federal Government's sale of Telstra for almost identical reasons to why the NSW Government wants to sell SnowyHydro. At least the enabling Telstra sale legislation was debated for years, was the subject of numerous ...

Pensioners call for 13 per cent more council tax rebate: CPSA

... afford to throw their money away like that, they should not be getting any rate increases at all." He called for the NSW Government to amend the Local Government Act 1993 and give NSW pensioners an increase in their council rate rebate of 13 per cent ...

FPA appoints new CEO

... positions include executive director of NSP Buck, strategic consultant with Macquarie Bank and also a stint with the NSW Government as parliamentary liaison officer, environmental planning and consumer affairs.

ADPIA applauds abolition of NSW vendor tax

The Australian Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) has welcomed the NSW Government's decision to scrap the vendor tax believing the move will stimulate further investment in property syndicates. Until now all transactions involving the sale ...