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Budget aims to please women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... year's announcement that the annual cap on the child care subsidy would be removed and subsidies for second and subsequent children would be increased will remain in place - with the government projecting these measures assist 250,000 families and save ...

Floods, fires, plagues catered to in Budget

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... 'Resilient Kids' program, $10 million will be provided over 4 years from 2021-22 to support the mental health of school-aged children in the Northern Rivers region affected by the recent flood event." While Frydenberg committed to net zero by 2050 in ...

New scaled advice offering launches

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... solution was initially developed in 2019 for Arch Capital's staff and family members, C and D clients, and the adult children of existing clients. Scientiam runs on a subscription model and is exclusive to advisers. As part of the registration process ...

Budget to back aspiring homeowners

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... The Family Home Guarantee is specifically targeted to single parent families, assisting eligible single parents with children to buy their first home or to re-enter the housing market with a deposit of as little as 2%. Frydenberg reported that of total ...

Childcare key to super gap

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
... "The gender super gap widens dramatically during the years when many women take time out of the paid workforce to raise children. That's because childcare costs gobble up any income from paid work and far too many mums don't get paid super on parental ...

Super should help secure home loans: Inquiry

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
... options for low to medium income earners, people experiencing homelessness, women escaping domestic violence, parents and children," the report says. Other recommendations include all states and territories scrapping stamp duty in place of a land tax ...

HESTA pushes forward with internalisation

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2022
... senior people usually coming to a period in their lives where they actually want to make a difference. They've got children, they want to be part of driving sustainability, they want to be leading outcomes for people that matter." Blakey agreed that ...

Super Fierce targets gender wealth gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... parenting is the one thing that no society or economy can do without. The average penalty is $280,000 for a woman with two children who takes an average six years out of paid work and then returns to part-time work," Probert said. "Super Fierce helps ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... pay gap and the fact women generally take far more time out of paid employment to do unpaid work, such as caring for children and elderly family members. As a society, we need to keep making a concerted effort to address these imbalances," Stewart says. ...

Super baby bonus could end inequality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... people agree that government should try to boost the super balances of women who take time out of the workforce to have children." The research is based on balances of an average 30-year-old man and woman (in 2022) and assuming the woman has one baby ...