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Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

ASFA warns govt against Super raid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... announced to super in the Budget as it would reinvigorate the panic and knock consumer confidence in the system." Prime Minister Julia Gillard told the Per Capita forum in Canberra that the latest estimates pointed to a $12 billion shortfall in government ...

$10bn CEFC fund gets govt mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... later stages of development and take a long term outlook when setting its investment strategy. It was part of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's July 2011 announcement on the government's plan for a clean energy future. The CEFC has set its mission to: "Accelerate ...

Global cooling on carbon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 APR 2013
... Ernest Miller Hemingway's immortal words, "don't ask for whom the bells toll, it tolls for thee". Did I say you, I mean Julia and Wayne. For just as we Australians all, seemed to have warmed to Julia's flip on the carbon tax, the international price ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... in the previous month - lower than expectations for a 2.4% gain. And what a fine time it is for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to score a "strategic partnership" with it, don't you think? And oh, Australian businesses will also now be able to ...

Super election infighting intensifies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... role in last month's failed leadership spill, has said he would strongly appose any changes to superannuation and urged Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan to reveal exactly what changes were planned. Crean said he'd never threatened to cross the ...

Super debate heats up ahead of Budget

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... inthe public because of its earlier lobbying work for environmental causes, is reacting to comments made by prime minister Julia Gillard that super should be made "fair" and "sustainable", clearly placing the country's retirement system on the budget ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... It made me a firm believer in women's intuition though. After all the brouhaha, the majority of the caucus didn't desert Julia Gillard. Haha. Even KRudd deserted himself under the guise of "I believe in honouring my word" to never again challenge the ...

Green, green grass of home

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... the Asian Financial Crisis of 1997/98, the bursting of the dotcom bubble in 2000, September 11, 2001, GFC of 2008...and Julia Gillard. The US has had two over that same period - one in 2001 and another in 2007-2009. Growth is relatively more stable in ...

Don't meddle with super industry bodies warn Govt

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2013
... last night's gala dinner at the SPAA conference in Melbourne also received an unsolicited letter from the prime minister Julia Gillard endorsing SPAA's efforts to champion the benefits of SMSFs.