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Super funds want more

... employers and super funds believe increasing the nine per cent Super Guarantee contribution should be a priority for the new Rudd Government, according to a new survey. Eighty-six per cent of the Russell Pulse survey respondents think the current contribution ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... and welfare, it is not so keen for the same constraints to be applied to executive salaries, an area where Prime Minister Rudd recently publicly appealed for business leaders to lead by example. "What we're seeing there is, I guess, a response to market ...

Cutting our energy usage has long way to go

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... per cent have water conserving showerheads and 15 per cent report using some type of water recycling method. To meet the Rudd government's proposals to cut our greenhouse gas production it's clear Australia has a long way to go, especially in terms of ...

Fed Govt creates financial services task force

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
The Rudd Labor Government has called on senior government officials to form the Financial Services Working Group, aimed at dealing with financial services advice and disclosure issues. The Financial Services Working Group includes senior officers from ...

Interest rates - when economics meets politics

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... take. "Petrol has fuelled inflation for the last couple of years. Now this is a significant problem, and it's about time the Rudd Government really got a handle on this issue by cutting petrol tax," he told the ABC. Meanwhile if rates do go up as expected ...

Too little too late

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
While economists regard the Rudd Government's announced five-point, anti-inflationary package as positive, it's not expected to be a threshold issue for the Reserve Bank. There are no hard specifics as to where savings will come from, but Labor expects ...

BRICs to surge as G7 slows

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... Research using about 5-10 indices for each country and 224 series in total. The good news is the OECD may not be tipping the Rudd Labor government to lead us into recession, but they are saying Rudd will have to create his own economic luck if he is ...

Retirement on hold for longer

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2007
... it just yet, we will soon have to follow suit. Tim Jenkins, Mercer's Asia Pacific Retirement Leader said the newly elected Rudd government had little choice but to re-visit the issue. His comments follow the release earlier this year of a report by the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2007
... Institute Inflation Gauge for November. In Sydney, the Post-Poll Telecom Agenda seminar on telecommunications policy under the Rudd Labor federal government will be held. Also in Sydney, the SatCom Australia 2007 conference on satellite communications ...

US Fed hints rates holiday may be over

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2007
... mid-high 80 cent level, oil prices will calm down and the doomsayers may go back into the bunker. But new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may also breathe a sigh of relief as the last thing a new Labor government trying to build economic credibility needs ...