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Xenophon rejects Senate FoFA report

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUN 2014
... some as tacit support to the Committee's report. With 33 representatives in the new Senate coming in on July 1, the Coalition will need six extra votes to approve the amendments to the financial advice law. Labor and the Greens are opposing the reform ...

Parliament passes temporary tax levy

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
High-income earners will pay more tax after parliament approved the coalition government's first budget measure. The temporary budget repair levy increases the top income tax rate, which applies to any income earned over $180,000, from 45 per cent to ...

FoFA changes designed to protect big players: opposition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... reports to the Parliament yesterday, as the Senate Economics Committee presented the conclusions to its inquiry into the Coalition's proposed FoFA amendments. Labor recommended that the bill not proceed and said that the government "should abandon any ...

Senate report supportive of government FoFA reforms

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The Senate Economics Committee has shown broad support of the Coalition's proposed amendments to the Future of Financial Advice (FoFA) law, although it suggested some changes. The Committee made public the conclusions of the Senate inquiry into the ...

Wall Street slips on oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... US$15.43 a barrel in June 1990 (before Saddam's adventure in Kuwait) to a high of US$41.07 by October of the same year (as Coalition forces prepared to kick Saddam's butt). Gulf War II in 2003 sent oil prices on the hop by 49.37% between November 2002 ...

Power sell off approved by NSW govt

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... multi-billion dollar partial sale of its electricity network assets and will take the controversial policy to the next election. Coalition MPs agreed to privatise 49 per cent of the poles and wires assets on 99-year leases, with proceeds of up to $20 ...

Palmer United will hold the key to FoFA approval

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... Committee presentation of the report on the FoFA inquiry, on June 16. With 33 representatives in the new Senate, the Coalition will need six extra votes to approve the amendments to the financial advice law. The Palmer United Party's three Senators have ...

Govt needs six votes to pass pension changes

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
... The government has proposed lifting the pension age to 70 by 2035, and indexing it to inflation rather than wages. The Coalition will also reportedly need four more votes to pass its Medicare $7 co-charge policy. Currently it has the support of the Liberal ...

Masseurs Tony and Joey

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2014
... Australian Senate votes to pass all the measures as is. Disclosure: lest I be crucified yet again, I'm neither an ALP nor Coalition fan.

Super needs a radical new solution to longevity: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAY 2014
... completely new basis of thinking than anything we've been doing now by the former Labor government, as you mentioned, or the Coalition," he said. He added, "We can't try and pretend that like a piece of Indian rubber, we can stretch the accumulation ...