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Greens propose scaled super contribs tax

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2012
The Australian Greens have proposed that rather than tax superannuation at a flat rate of 15%, it should be taxed on a sliding discounted scale based on a fund members' marginal tax rates. The proposal follows emerging debate about the cost of superannuation ...

Bond boom or bust?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 SEP 2012
We've peered through the Hole and we saw something - we think. Now it's the Europeans turn. Yes Virginia, the Europeans are back in town! And yes, Virginia, we can tell because we're hearing the same rhetoric from the usual suspects being replayed on ...

MySuper flipping ban passes lower house

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... Government's MySuper legislation has passed through the House of Representatives, with some last-minute amendments. A push by Greens deputy leader and employment spokesperson Adam Bandt to stop employers gouging additional fees, by changing employees' ...

ACT prohibits guns & smokes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... and Deputy Chief Minister, Andrew Barr, told the Canberra Times, however, that the ACT Labor government will not support Greens legislation to extend the ban to companies related to sweatshops or child labour, and to businesses that tested cosmetics ...

Greens plan to fell Westpac-backed logging

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
Greens senator Lee Rhiannon yesterday moved a motion calling on the Government to get involved in the debate over Westpac's financial backing of logging operations in the Solomon Islands. Earlier this week Westpac was identified as the guarantor of ...

Future Fund defends tax havens

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Luxembourg. The fund asserted its independence at yesterday's inquiry - defending itself against a bill put to Parliament by the Greens which would see it forced out of several contentious investments. The Greens' 'responsible investment' push would ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... ensuring that responsible investment will become mainstream." ESG investing has been highlighted recently, with the Australian Greens party putting a bill before parliament that would force the Future Fund to pull out of socially questionable investments. ...

Foreign MIS tax legislation delayed

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... treasurer Mathias Cormann responded, claiming the federal government had misled constituents and caved to pressure from the Greens Party. In a statement yesterday, Cormann said "Business cannot invest with confidence when the government clearly has no ...

Equity value - cheap or the new normal?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
There must be some truth in reports that came out a few days ago, that Australians have now surpassed the Brits as the world's biggest whingers. Whinge, whinge, whinge. This went on full display right here, right now after the RBA decided to give the ...

What price surplus?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Whose fault is it anyway? New Greens leader Christine Milne has barely warmed the seat Bob Brown vacated last week and she's already off to a firing start. Don't blame Julia and Swan (and the Greens?), they've been locked in into delivering the "promised" ...