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Chalmers boosts Help to Buy scheme, construction sector

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... states and territories to spend on crisis support and to maintain and repair social housing. This includes the doubling of funding for homelessness services to around $400 million a year. Some $6.2 million will go towards homelessness research, advocacy ...

Green technology, clean energy receive Budget boost

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... continuing to invest billions into green technologies and the energy transition. The federal government has also allocated funding for innovative technology and clean energy manufacturing in the FY26 Federal Budget. It announced priority sector funding ...

Chalmers' warning on tariffs and trade wars

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... with a $330 billion investment in the Defence Integrated Investment Program out to 2033-34, which will mean that Defence funding will exceed 2.3% of GDP by the early 2030s. This includes a $50.3 billion investment provided in the 2024-25 Budget.

Government looks to bolster TPB, tax compliance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... is enhancing sanctions the TPB can impose, modernising the registration framework for tax practitioners and providing funding over four years to the TPB to undertake additional compliance targeting high-risk practitioners. This will commence from July ...

Government makes record commitment to Medicare

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... Training Excellence to deliver said services. Commenting, Chalmers described women's health as a "national priority". "This funding will help Australian women save on contraception, access more endometriosis and pelvic pain clinics, and receive better ...

Regal slashes holdings in Opthea over insolvency concerns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... uncertainty as to Opthea's ability to continue as a going concern. As noted above, discussions with the Development Funding Agreement (DFA) Investors are ongoing and Opthea cannot be certain as to the outcome of those discussions or when that outcome ...

New impact fund backs marginalised female entrepreneurs

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2025
... for their families and local people," McMullin said. Good Return's remit, however, goes beyond lending, it said. Grant funding deployed alongside the fund is used to train financial institution employees to address gender discrimination and adopt inclusive ...

Quadrant Private Equity invests in LegalVision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2025
... subscription-based legal model across key markets. The $9 billion private equity firm's capital injection will be used to increase funding for LegalVision's team, technology, and product. The partnership will also give Quadrant board representation at ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... (AUM). The average time it takes to launch a new fund will also go from 12 weeks to nine weeks, while the average seed funding required will fall from US$50.3 million to US$38.1 million. Calastone chief commercial officer Brian Godins said while adoption ...

Insignia Financial takes $53.5m profit hit

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2025
... repayment request from NAB. Insignia issued $200 million of subordinated loan notes (SLNs) to NAB in May 2021 as part of the funding package to finance the acquisition of MLC Wealth from NAB. The SLNs include an equity-linked component under which the ...