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Stuart Robert named shadow financial services minister

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2022
Stuart Robert has been handed the financial services portfolio in Peter Dutton's shadow ministry, while Angus Taylor is shadow Treasurer and Jane Hume becomes finance minister. Robert has been appointed as the shadow assistant treasurer and shadow minister ...

'We're living in the world China is making': Conference

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... the signing of the Solomon Islands security pact, we're hearing the drumbeat support," Grant said. Evidently, Peter Dutton has said we need to prepare for war and Scott Morrison has talked about red lines. In Australian politics, China has become ...

Australia confirms economic sanctions against Russia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2022
... a joint statement, Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Minister for Foreign Affairs Marissa Payne and Defence Minister Peter Dutton confirmed Australia has also sanctioned 13 Belarusian individuals and entities, including Belarusian Minister of Defence Viktor ...

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
Scott Morrison will be Australia's next Prime Minister, after he beat Peter Dutton 45-40 in a Liberal Party leadership ballot. The ASX 200 jumped on the news, after trending downwards since Monday. It hit its highest at 1.05pm, when it was up 0.33% ...

SG payments made simpler

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... interest and an administration fee paid directly to the Tax Office. Minister for Revenue and Assistant Tresurer, Peter Dutton, said, "Ultimately, the employer has already made their SG contribution for the employee. However, employees will still be entitled ...

Govt exempts terminally ill from super lump sum tax

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
... because we believe we need to remove as many of the stresses as possible for people in this terrible situation," said Peter Dutton, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. At present, those under 55 years of age are taxed 20 per cent when they ...

Battle lines drawn over defence force super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2007
... Super reforms of unfairly penalising Australia's military personnel through higher taxation. But Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton dismissed the claim and told the ALP to stop scaremongering over military super. "The latest 'stunt statement' [is] designed ...

ALP wants industry funds on awards

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... the automatic default super choice for industrial awards is less likely to be so well received by wealth managers. Peter Dutton, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, said the industry needs to realise that the ALP intends to make industry funds ...

Co-contribs put extra $3bn into nation's super

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUL 2007
... the Federal Government began its co-contribution scheme, according to Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton. Dutton said a third of that result was down to the government's doubling of super co contributions for the 2005-06 financial ...

Dutton allows warrants back on SMSF menu

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2007
Assistant Treasurer Peter Dutton yesterday reversed the federal government's hardline stance on instalment warrants, allowing self managed super funds to invest in warrants of "a limited recourse nature over any asset a fund would be permitted to invest ...