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Kelly O'Dwyer to leave parliament

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Former financial services minister Kelly O'Dwyer will retire before the next election. In an announcement on Saturday, Member for Higgins Kelly O'Dwyer said she would not recontest the next federal election, citing personal reasons. "After much agonising ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
Brexit uncertainty remains in the headlines ( dis-United Kingdom prime minister Theresa May survived the vote of no confidence immediately called after the crushing defeat of her proposed Brexit deal in the House of Commons); so is the US government ...

No-deal Brexit prolongs market uncertainty

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
The landslide defeat of Prime Minister Theresa May's UK divorce deal overnight hasn't rattled the global share markets, but investment experts remain cautious. The House of Commons rejected May's proposed exit strategy by an overwhelming ...

Chief economist update: disUnited Kingdom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... country known as the United Kingdom, there seems to be an absence of well, unity. The (dis)United Kingdom's Prime Minister Theresa May and her proposed Brexit deal lost big time in the House of Commons by a record 230 votes - 432 against and 202 ...

Curtain call for industry body after 96 years

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2019
... Cost of Living Index. Overall, Australia is the 17th most expensive country to live in. When the group lobbied Prime Minister Scott Morrison for change shortly after his appointment it was told current indexation arrangements would remain and "the government ...

UK loses £800bn in assets amid Brexit fears

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... parliament to ratify it. If approved, the UK will leave the EU on 29 March 2019. The UK parliament will vote on Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal this month. EY UK financial services leader Omar Ali said as things stand and as per regulatory ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
When UK prime minister Theresa May declared that "Brexit is Brexit" and "no Brexit deal is better than a bad Brexit deal" when she addressed EU ambassadors in London on the 17 January 2017, she laid out 12 objectives for Brexit negotiations: 1. Clarity ...

NAFTA's dead, welcome USMCA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... US-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA). The new agreement is expected to be signed by US president Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexico's President Enrique Pena Nieto in 60 days before being sent to the US Congress for final approval. ...

Labor proposes RC implementation task force

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... more people, more victims in more parts of Australia." Labor called for the Royal Commission in April, 2016 and Prime Minister Scott Morrison voted against it 26 times, she added. "The Liberals [were] tooth and nail against the establishment of a Royal ...

Chief economist update: Surplus here we come

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... higher than estimated dividends from the Future Fund of $5.1 billion (versus $3.8 billion). Australia's deposed prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, must be wishing the report was released sooner so that it wasn't Finance Minister Mathias Cormann ...