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...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... Senator O'Brien said on 8 February. However, in Parliamentary Question Time yesterday he appeared to contradict the the Labor Party position. "Yesterday in the other place, Senator Heffernan said in the House that I had given a commitment on behalf of ...

ALP finally agrees to back Budget super reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2006
It was a long time coming, but the Australian Labor Party (ALP) has bowed to the inevitable and finally agreed to back the government's superannuation reforms announced in the Federal Budget. Peter Dutton, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer ...

Kiwisaver allows contributions to be diverted into mortgages

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  MONDAY, 28 AUG 2006
... coodinated by the New Zealand Department of Inland Revenue (their tax department) and is thought to be where the Australia Labor Party got the idea to have the Australian Taxation Office operate as a national super choice clearing house. Alex Dunnin ...

Budget super consultations attract 3,500 submissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 AUG 2006
... from the [formal] correspondence from 1,500-plus businesses, individuals and organisations is any submission from the Labor Party. The Labor Party's inaction on this issue demonstrates an appalling lack of interest in a major policy initiative that will ...

SnowyHydro snow job?

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2006
... acknowledge the sale is a done deal, the real irony is that the fast-tracked sale is being so strongly supported by the Labor Party which supposedly opposes the Federal Government's sale of Telstra for almost identical reasons to why the NSW Government ...

Labor launches 6-point super plan

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2006
The Labor party has announced plans to finetune the nation's superannuation system, targeting lifting retirement income, cutting superannuation taxes and making it simpler for people to consolidate lost super. The Leader of the Opposition, Kim Beazley ...

Labor's super plans costly, complex and a disincentive: Liberals

... about $1 billion in government co-contributions, making superannuation the largest government tax expenditure. The Labor Party has also pledged that it will introduce measures to reunite individuals with lost or forgotten super funds. Nick Sherry, Labor's ...

Ezy Banking shows direct-selling is tough

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2005
... Banking brand provided the basic bank account product that some consumer groups and also politicians - notably the Labor Party - demand of banks, though the bank's core bank brand didn't offer a genuine low cost banking option. The bank's investment ...

Senate passes changes to super payments reporting

... superannuation entitlements to employees with little resistance in the upper house of Parliament from the Opposition. The Labor Party have moved to amend the legislation to ensure the level of non-payment of employer contributions was reported by the ...

Labor ripe for the picking on super; ASFA

Superannuation is in danger of being used as a "political honeypot" if the Federal Labor Party's policy proposals are enacted, the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) said yesterday. "Over $5 billion is being carved out of super ...