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Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
... break Japan's deflationary trend - the other bugbear - as the government spends - to rebuild infrastructure and increases welfare expenditure - businesses spend - to rebuild factories, refurnish stocks and restart operations - and consumers spend - to ...

Oil at US$300

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2011
... repeated to this day. Besides, dictatorial regimes in the MENA region are now "bribing" their people with increases in social welfare, etc. to hose down uprisings. A "Day of Rage" on the 11th and 20th of this month had been twittered and facebooked in ...

PC recommends social insurance shake-up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... establish twin social no-fault insurance schemes in what is potentially the biggest recasting of the nation's health, welfare and insurance sectors in decades. The recommendations are contained in the PC's draft report to the Disability Care and Support ...

Sentiment slips on oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2011
... Abduallah announced increased social spending worth more than US$11 billion. This includes higher disbursements for social welfare (including a 15 percent cost of living allowance for government workers), jobs creation, housing and education. Now why ...

ECB to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... economies just won't work. I've said this many times before. Reduce debt by raising taxes and cutting government spending (welfare, jobs) only leads to less jobs, less spending, less economic growth, less government revenues - plus protests and riots ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010

Detox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... restricted social services, raised taxes and privatised state assets. More tax hikes are planned. Spain cut spending on social welfare, raised value-added and other taxes, reduced public investment and reduced civil service jobs by 13,000 per year - ...

Raising SG could impact regional companies

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... that these changes will do their part to increase the super savings of Australians and thereby reduce reliance on our welfare system, we do have some concerns about the time frame over which these changes will be phased in, and the impact an increase ...

Av Super chair wins 2010 Trustee of the Year Award

AIST RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2010
... were featured in a surprise video organised by AIST where Leggo was lauded for his generous spirit and interest in the welfare of both Av Super staff and fund members. "It's important that as directors we do not forget that it is the fund staff that ...

New board directors for HESTA

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... three new directors to its board. HESTA Super Fund's new appointees are Maree O'Halloran, a lawyer and director of NSW's Welfare Rights Centre; Prue Power, executive director of the Australian Healthcare and Hospitals Association; and Tim Lyons, Australian ...