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Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... (goods and services tax) was introduced on 1 July 2000 - the biggest economic reform of the time. I can still picture then Liberal leader John Hewson on national TV trying to explain whether the price of a birthday cake would be dearer, the same, or ...

Pollies clash over SG

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... superannuation "belligerent". Speaking at a union's investment forum in Sydney on June 17, Shorten told attendees that within the Liberal party's opposition to the increase, some Liberal MP's were actually in favour of the move, reported AAP. "I think ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Minister. Russell is replacing Howard government appointee Mark Paterson AO who is heading back to Sydney to work with the new Liberal Party NSW state government. At the time of his appointment in 2001 Paterson was controversial as the then chief executive ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
... that the A$ should be trading at US$0.6843 instead of one for one. Perhaps they didn't see back then that the Australian Liberal National Coalition would win government in Western Australia, Victoria and more recently New South Wales. Their victory and ...

UK edges closer to universal pension scheme

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
The ruling Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition will push ahead with plans to introduce a universal pension scheme in the UK. Chancellor George Osborne recently gave the green light for the establishment of the National Employment and Savings Trust ...

Nothing to fear in hung parliament

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
The financial services industry is still digesting the ramifications of Saturday's election cliffhanger, which has given Australia its first hung parliament since 1940. "It certainly does leave the industry in limbo at the moment," said Fiona Reynolds ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... senate in 2004 following the collapse of the Australian Democrats that saw its middle class voter base return to their Liberal Party origins. The Victorian ALP's preference deal miscalculation that paved the way for the election of Senator Fielding only ...

Resistance grows to SG increase

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 21 MAY 2010
... reverse its position. John Brogden chief executive of the Investment and Financial Services Association and former NSW Liberal Party opposition leader, said, "The Coalition must reverse its position on the Superannuation Guarantee. This is a bad outcome ...

Mining royalties should go into SWF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAY 2010
... said, "Absolutely, and in fact when I did my National Press Club speech a couple of weeks ago, I floated a similar idea." Liberal Senator Nick Minchin, a strong critic of the recently proposed mining tax, appeared to suggest the Coalition might be more ...

ETS collapse threatens ESG

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... concerns among environmental, social and governance (ESG) investment strategists that the market is losing momentum. The new Liberal Party policy of 'direct action' for government intervention to select favoured technologies and protect key GHG emitters ...