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International media question Australia's "austerity budget"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... consumer confidence in an economy that is doing better than most of its counterparts. "Australia's first budget under Tony Abbott was either brave or foolhardy," BBC Sydney correspondent Jon Donnison wrote following Treasurer Joe Hockey's budget speech ...

Industry prepares for Abbott's first budget

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... infrastructure and the deficit look likely to take prominent position in tonight's budget, described by Prime Minister Tony Abbott as bringing "pain with purpose." However, superannuation and financial services are expected to get off fairly lightly. ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2014
... to $35.175 and National Australia Bank had added 32 cents to $34.50. Mr Keenan said investors were keenly awaiting the Abbott government's first budget, due out on Tuesday night, however negative budget talk had already been priced into the market. He ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2014
The Australian share market has opened higher on the eve of the release of the Abbott government's first budget. At 1010 AEST on Monday, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index was 14.1 points, or 0.26 per cent, higher at 5,474.9, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Super needs a radical new solution to longevity: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... continue to build the accumulations between 60 and 80." Keating also said that part of cause of this pressure - as the Abbott government is now finding out as it prepares for its first budget - is that tax changes introduced by former Prime Minister ...

No cut to age pension in this term: Abbott

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
Prime Minister Tony Abbott has said there will be no change to the age pension in this term of parliament, putting an end to speculation that the pension would be cut back in next month's budget. However, the PM used his address to the Sydney Institute ...

FoFA amendments undermine confidence in advisers: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... stop changes which undermine confidence in the financial planning market." Shorten spoke a day after Prime Minister Tony Abbott refused to rule out that the government was preparing to introduce a levy on high incomes to reduce Australia's deficit. "We ...

FEATURE: Re-imagining Australia's financial future

STAFF WRITERS  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... financial crisis, another investigation is more than necessary. In November 2013 a joint release between Prime Minister Tony Abbott and Treasurer Joe Hockey introduced us to the government's wide-ranging plans. The release said the Murray inquiry was ...

Prescriptions galore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014

The scares that weren't

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAR 2014
... thing". Sowee, but at this point I can't help but recall what our very own then Opposition leader and now Prime Minister Tony Abbott said about the spoken word back in May 2010. "I know politicians are going to be judged on everything they say but sometimes ...