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Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... Labor Party (ALP) had 67 (up from 57 seats); 5 seats were won by "others" with 13 seats still undecided. The Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) declared that it could take up to two weeks before the final results are known. Yes Virginia, we've joined ...

Age pension kept at highest indexation rate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... income policy. "It reinforces the need for changes to the retirement incomes system to be taken out of the budget and electoral cycles and aligned with the publication of the intergenerational report every five years, ideally with bi-partisan support," ...

Privatisation backlash derails infra investing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2015
... Liberal National Party government thrown out after just one term - despite them having won one of the most commanding electoral victories in Australian history just three years ago. Labor's shock victory in Queensland follows its return to power in Victoria ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... opened lower amid fears of a Greek debt default. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's vow to stand by his anti-austerity electoral promises are denting global equity markets but locally, the mining giants and consumer discretionary sector are in the ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2015
... (0.39 per cent) to 4,726.01. Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras vowed over the weekend to stand by his anti-austerity electoral promises, raising worries of a default on 315 billion euros ($A457.02 billion) in debt. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Would Baird premiership mean 'poles and wires' sale?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2014
... what we have said previously, that if there was to be any change, that would be something that would be sought with an electoral mandate. But we're not in a position where we're seeking that." Baird is the most likely candidate to replace Barry O'Farrell ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... retirees, while the Pioneer Generation package is designed to defray rising retiree health costs and shore up dampening electoral support. CPF contribution rates at 36% for workers aged between 35 and 50 years are already extraordinarily high by Australian ...

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... months before) - the carbon and mining taxes? The answer, my friends, is with the poll results. While the Australian Electoral Commission's latest count shows a clear win for the Coalition in its latest count - 91 seats versus 54 for Labor - in the lower ...

Mercer trumpets "lifetime super concessional cap"

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2013
... benefit in the form decreased pressure on the Age Pension would be a long time coming, and would fall well out of the electoral cycle.