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Interest rates expected to stay on hold

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2004
... 47% to $46.8 billion last year, due partly to a 30% rise in the Aussie as well as a weak world economy. Treasurer Peter Costello said the current account deficit was still significant and showed Australia's farm exports had not yet recovered from the ...

Costello unveils changes to retirement incomes

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Treasurer Peter Costello today unveiled plans to keep older people in the workforce longer and encourage retirees to take their superannuation savings as a pension rather than a lump sum. Outlining a key plank in the coalition's re-election strategy ...

Baby boomers to be urged to rethink early retirement

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2004
Baby boomers will be urged to rethink their retirement plans in a major speech by Treasurer Peter Costello today, which will form a cornerstone of the coalition's re-election strategy. Costello is expected to push later retirement and measures to encourage ...

CPA Australia welcomes FSRA allowances

Accounting body CPA Australia has welcomed an announcement from Treasurer Peter Costello that accountants will be allowed to provide some advice to clients on self-managed superannuation under the Financial Services Reform Act (FSRA). Costello said ...

Costello promises surplus with hope for tax cut this year

Treasurer Peter Costello today promised to keep the Budget in surplus while holding out the hope of a tax cut this year. Mr Costello said the government had brought down six surplus budgets since it came to power in 1996 while at the same time dramatically ...

Australia, New Zealand moving toward single economic market

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2004
Australian Treasurer Peter Costello, in a meeting with New Zealand Finance Minister Michael Cullen, said there had been significant progress made towards trans Tasman business integration. The two ministers, speaking to reporters last week said they ...

Jobs figures strengthen expectations of further rate hike

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2004
... expectations of a further rate hike next month as figures showed unemployment remained at 14-year lows. Treasurer Peter Costello said the December jobless rate of 5.6%, the same as November, was further proof of continuing strength in the Australian ...

Costello appoints Jeffrey Lucy acting ASIC chairman

Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced he has appointed current deputy chairman of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), Jeffrey Lucy AM, as acting chairman of the regulator pending David Knott's departure next week. Mr ...

Treasurer praises departing ASIC chairman

... (ASIC) chairman, David Knott, is taking leave prior to his resignation at the end of the year, the Federal Treasurer Peter Costello has announced. "Under Mr Knott's leadership, ASIC has proven to be a highly effective regulator. He was appointed as ASIC ...

Latham poll shows election to be close: Costello

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 DEC 2003
... support for Labor leader Mark Latham showed the federal election expected next year would be a close race, Treasurer Peter Costello said. The Australian newspaper's Newspoll showed that, in two weeks, Mr Latham's rating as preferred prime minister has ...