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FSR Amendment Bill 2003 will enhance disclosure: ALP

The passage of the Financial Services Reform Amendment Bill 2003 will enhance the disclosure of fees and charges for consumers, in dollar terms, and will also help enhance disclosure standards, according to shadow minister for financial services, Senator ...

ALP to lift veil on super strategy

ALP shadow treasurer Mark Latham will next week begin to spell out in detail the Federal Opposition's plans for the superannuation industry, as part of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia's (ASFA's) annual conference to be held in Brisbane. ...

Government Telstra sale blocked by Senate

The Government has threatened to use the sale of Telstra as an election trigger after its attempts to fully privatise the company were blocked by the Senate. The four independents whose votes are crucial to the Government its 50.1 per cent stake in ...

Government's latest super bills face criticism from opposition

... new bills though. Senator Nick Sherry, the shadow minister for retirement incomes and savings, said that the Liberal/Democrat superannuation deal that was passed in the senate was both unbalanced and unfair. He said that those earning $96,000 or more ...

Low income earners can boost retirement nest eggs: super funds

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2003
Lower income earners could retire with up to 70 per cent more in their pension funds if they took advantage of new superannuation rules, super funds said yesterday. Independent senators last night backed the government reforms following a stalemate ...

Labour lashes out against government's 'phoney portability' of super

Labour's Senator Nick Sherry, the shadow minister for retirement incomes and savings, says the so-called portability mark II regulations gazetted last week by the Assistant Treasurer Helen Coonan are 'weak and wimpy'. "The size of the problem is well-known ...

Government scores superannuation hat trick: Coonan

The Government has secured another win for superannuation reform after negotiating another agreement with the Australian Democrats to support new portability regulations to facilitate the consolidation of superannuation from inactive accounts. "The ...

Government confident of garnering Democrats support for unfair dismissals bill

WITH AAP  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2003
The Commonwealth Government said that it was confident of winning the Democrats' support for its proposed changes to unfair dismissal laws, Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott said today. "I can assure you the government will reintroduce the bill ...

Senate rejects super portability regulations

The superannuation portability regulations, designed to allow all fund members to consolidate accounts, were today rejected by the Senate. The Australian Democrats and Greens supported a Labor motion disallowing the regulations. Labor has argued for ...

Democrats round on government portability regulations

... with inadequate consumer protection, and add to the number of superannuation accounts. Senator John Cherry, Australian Democrat spokesperson on superannuation, said the committee had found the regulations would leave the industry and fund members in ...