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Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could be sending strong regulatory signals when he said people earning more than $60,000 may not need welfare support and government protection. The Prime Minister this morning told Fairfax radio that the people who really ...

Attack tax with tact

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
... 2020 Summit was for a "root and branch" review of tax system even though we all know this is just code for Prime Minister Rudd wanting to increase, not lower, the tax take. Case in point is the last time the tax system had tree surgery like this under ...

Short selling flaw lies in disclosure

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2008
... Australia's ability to attract foreign-sourced investment funds, he said. Senator Sherry cited comments the Prime Minister Rudd made earlier this month in Britain: "We want to ensure that Australia's regulatory regime does not impose an undue burden ...

Macq predicts SG to top 9pc

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
Australia's superannuation guarantee level is set to rise above the current 9 per cent under the Rudd Government, predicts a head strategist at Macquarie. Pointing out that it was the Labor government that set the wheels of the present super regime ...

Margin lending collapses risk regulatory over-reach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... extent should the government be there to bail them out when it comes unstuck? This might have been on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's mind in early March when he told reporters that consumers need to understand the organisations they are dealing with and ...

Further regulation not needed: Nelson

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... to be instinctively calling for more regulation unless there is a solid case for it." In addition, Nelson criticised the Rudd Government's handling of the inflation issue, stating it needed to be addressed, but the situation was not dire. "It important ...

When good housing news is bad

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... fight against housing affordability is effectively lost. Indeed it kills any hope a young person may have had to even use the Rudd government's new First Home Saver Accounts to help them get into the market as these are only intended to help people save ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... retentions rates. The proposed scheme reduced the government's financial burden, transferring it to the funds members. The Rudd Government received the report and released the findings in December, however it has not declared it will implement any of ...

China response has big trade implications

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
With pressures growing on Prime Minister Rudd to scold China over its treatment of Tibet, the irony is that its left to just to the Prime Minister to defend our position even though the beneficiaries of our China relationship extend into every corner ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... rock. The report will obviously have to be rewritten. As for Heritage Listing the sky in NSW, no wonder Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has escaped for 17 days. And no doubt his plane flew west from Canberra so he would minimise any NSW sky rental charge. ...