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Hockey to head Treasury and Cormann Finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... says what it means and means what it says. A government of no surprises and no excuses". "The boats will be stopped. The budget will be on track for a believable surplus. And the roads of the 21st century will finally be well under way." Through this ...

Coalition victory to boost business confidence

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... stalemate in the Senate. Furthermore, he believes that a potential confidence pick up will be counterbalanced by a growing budget deficit, recently revised from $18 billion to $30 billion for FY14. "Business confidence is the last hope to meet the fall ...

The weekend that could change the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... much choice either between Labor or the Coalition - nothing much to differentiate policies in terms of their impact on the budget bottom line.A No wait, there is...hot off the press, Treasurer-in-wishing Hockey just crowed that his budget deficit is ...

Mercer trumpets "lifetime super concessional cap"

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
Mercer has proposed that lifetime concessional caps on superannuation contributions would be a fairer system than the current annual concessional cap of $25,000. This policy would particularly help those approaching retirement who have not benefited ...

Growth and QE - will this time be different?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 AUG 2013
... Boston Marathon bombings and who could forget Duke Nu-Kim' Jong Un.A Not only that, these happened at the time that US budget spending is in sequestration. If this laundry list of negatives can't bring the US down, nothing can.A With China's economy ...

One-third of US federal workers could retire

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 AUG 2013
... mid-October they will have to suspend payments to some of the US government's creditors and clamp down even harder on recurrent budget expenditure particularly if pressure keeps mounting for increased military expenditure in an even limited intervention ...

Coalition to save $1.6bn via SG delay

AAP & ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 AUG 2013
The Coalition has confirmed that it will make $1.6 billion budget saving A by delaying the increase of the compulsory superannuation guarantee from 9% to 12%. After pressure from Labor shadow treasurer Joe Hockey released a seven-page document that ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... extra in tax per year and in fact should be resisted by all of us." According to costings carried out by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the Greens' very similar scheme, ruling out franking credits would save the government between $1.4 and ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to cost retirees $1.6 billion in hidden tax

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2013
... quite possibly unintentional - it is by no means insignificant. According to costings carried out by the Parliamentary Budget Office (PBO) on the Greens' very similar scheme, ruling out franking credits would save the government between $1.4 and $1.6 ...