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Chalmers says tax reform coming, but offers no detail

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... go for working people and young people. Secondly, that it attract more business investment, that's a challenge in our economy. And thirdly, that changes make the system simpler, more sustainable so that we can fund the kind of services that all of those ...

APRA sets higher cybersecurity expectations for trustees

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... and resilient financial system - one that absorbs shocks and does not amplify them - remains critical to supporting the economy through periods of turbulence," he said. -

Grattan calls for large scale tax reform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2025
... affordable, responsible way to incentivise business investment, recognising the capital deepening challenge that we have in the economy, and what that means for productivity and for growth. "Thirdly, how we make the system simpler, more sustainable ...

Anti-hawking exemption for advisers a 'silly carve out': SCA

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2025
... fees, and jeopardise people's life savings. SCA is urging the federal government to prohibit unfair trading practices economy-wide, including for financial services, and pushing for an amendment to the Corporations Act to ban the unsolicited sale or ...

CEDA calls for 'seamless economy' reforms as Roundtable begins

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2025
... Committee for Economic Development of Australia (CEDA) has called on the government to kick off a new wave of seamless economy reforms and boost its National Productivity Fund. Towards a more seamless Australian economy called on the government to deliver ...

Leaders push for overseas skills recognition

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... increase the benefits of our migration program. Addressing this issue would provide an almost immediate boost to Australia's economy and improve the impact of the migration program on an ongoing basis." Member for Wentworth Allegra Spender added that ...

Special feature: Hunting for value

LACHLAN COLQUHOUN  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... a reasonably benign picture," says Grotzinger, a senior fixed income manager with Neuberger Berman in Chicago. "The US economy is not crashing, and we may even see some rebounding and growth in the fourth quarter." The bond market sell-off that followed ...

RBA cuts rates, experts debate next moves

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
... chief economist Davd Bassanese said more interest rate cuts are likely given the current trajectory of the Australian economy. "Inflation is close to the mid-point of the 2 to 3% target band and official interest rates are still on the restrictive side ...

PC suggests removing excessive entry requirements for advisers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2025
In its fourth of five papers addressing productivity hurdles in Australia's economy ahead of the government's Economic Reform Roundtable, the Productivity Commission (PC) has recommended paring back some of the entry requirements that have impacted ...

Norway sovereign wealth fund divests 11 Israeli companies, cuts mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2025
... billion - 6.9% of its total value - invested in companies named in the present report alone," she wrote in her report From economy of occupation to economy of genocide. They include Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Booking.com., Airbnb, Palantir Technologies ...