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UK pension funds to be hit hard over negligence

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAR 2019
... of a wider reform package put forward in response to consultation on enhancing the powers of the pensions regulator. Amber Rudd, the UK's Secretary of State for Work and Pensions said bosses who put the futures of their employees at risk have got away ...

Personal tax cuts lead the Budget

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... companies will no longer get tax breaks over Australian companies - calling it "another tax loophole opened up by the Rudd Government." The government also wants digital companies to pay up their taxes. "Over the past year I have been working with counterparts ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... same period. When the coalition government was elected in 2013, net Government debt was $160 billion; when the Rudd government was elected in 2007 Australia didn't have a net government debt but had $24 billion in the bank. This illustrates how the 11-year ...

Tax breaks delivered to first home buyers

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... families delaying the purchase of their first home," budget documents say. While the scheme is loosely based on the Rudd government's first home saver account that were introduced in 2008 but abandoned by the Abbott government, this new scheme will operate ...

Citi appoints government affairs head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... Financial Services Council. He has also been a government relations manager at PwC, a senior adviser at the Office of Kevin Rudd, a Treasury economist and principal policy analyst at Treasury and Finance Tasmania. Bond's appointment follows the news ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... downturn. [All] that work actually became the three Ts approach - temporary, targeted and timely - that underpinned Kevin Rudd's response during the Global Financial Crisis. I was very proud of that work," Anthony says. He then moved to the department ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... - meaning government debt has increased $165 billion since this time. In June 2007, about the same time as the Rudd government was elected, total government debt was just $58 billion, ie, government debt has increased more than 600% since this time. ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... political dynamics continues, I fear that the latest prescriptions from the National Reform Summit would go the way of former PM Rudd's "Australia 2020 Summit" convened in April 2008 - where reportedly Rudd rejected 135 of the 138 recommendations.

Lift preservation age to 65, save $7bn annually

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... for] almost one half of men and over one-third of women who retire between the ages of 60 and 64." The previous Rudd government in 2009 lifted the age at which retirees born after 1957 to 67 years can access their age pension. The Abbott government increased ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... Abbott and his cigar-smoking Treasurer Joe Hockey. Yes, Virginia. They've been telling us since they were still opposing Rudd then Gillard then Rudd how woeful Australia's economy has become and that we're getting there. Slowly, but surely, Australians ...