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Dignity Super's main aim, ASFA reminds politicians

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... superannuation tax concession legislations has increased after an election date (14 September) was set by Prime Minister Julia Gillard last week. The independent representative body The Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) yesterday ...

Market Wrap - AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... Wednesday pulled back in late trading but still closed slightly higher, with investors unfazed by Prime Minister Julia Gillard announcing that the next federal election would be on September 14. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index rose 7.7 points, or 0.16 ...

Financial services outstrip mining: CommSec

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... stimulus measures are likely to prop up demand. Furthermore, the rise of the Chinese middle class and Prime Minister Julia Gillard's push more engagement with the 'Asian century' should further advance trade with the East. "Our relationship with China ...

Pacific Hydro joins $315m renewable energy JV

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 25 JUN 2012
Prime Minister Julia Gillard has announced a $320 million consortium agreement between the industry fund owned Australian renewable energy company Pacific Hydro and Brazil's mining company Vale. The agreement formalises Vale's and Pacific Hydro's intentions ...

Arts attract philanthropic funds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... government and philanthropy, providing multiple submissions to government reviews and consulting with Prime Minister Julia Gillard and former Minister for Social Inclusion, Tanya Plibersek," said Peter Winneke, Myer Family Company's head of philanthropic ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... Billiton up 51 cents at $37.16. Uranium miners were higher after Labor's national conference backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to remove the party platform's ban on uranium exports to India. Paladin Energy was up 5.5 cents, or 3.3 per cent ...

PM: Labor taking reform road on super

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
Prime Minister Julia Gillard told attendees at the Labour Union Co-operative Retirement Fund (LUCRF) community partnership trust launch in Sydney on Friday that the rise in the SG and abolition of the age cap would change peoples' futures. Pointing ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2011
... passengers expected to have their travel plans disrupted. Its shares fell half a cent to $1.56, after Prime Minister Julia Gillard warned the government had powers under the Fair Work Act to intervene in the dispute if it began to impact the national ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Stephen Conroy says keeping politicians out of an inquiry into the media is the right thing to do. Prime Minister Julia Gillard has accused NSW Premier Barry O'Farrell and federal Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of conspiring with News Ltd to undermine ...

Obama punts on US$300bn jobs package

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... for relative population size, president Obama's US$300 billion jobs package would be equivalent to prime minister Julia Gillard announcing a program worth $20 billion. That's half the value of the entire NBN, half the value of our age pension entitlement ...