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Affordable housing in Budget spotlight

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... by family violence and older women at risk of homelessness. A further 10,000 dwellings will be provided for frontline workers. Up to $575 million will help the National Housing Infrastructure Facility to support a further 5500 homes. A Help to Buy Scheme ...

RBA downplays exchange rate inflationary impacts

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 25 OCT 2022
... companies in the resources offered higher wages in Australian dollar terms than those being offered elsewhere, encouraging workers across the country to shift away from other endeavours. The nominal exchange rate provided a second a margin of adjustment ...

Primewest rebrands to Centuria

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2022
... brand." "With a number of new colleagues joining the fold, it also made sense to come under the one umbrella with our co-workers across east coast Australia, New Zealand and the Philippines. "This is still the same highly proficient group of professionals ...

Piecemeal super taxes won't fix budget deficit: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2022
... Guarantee paid on their paid parental leave. Measure six broadens the coverage of the Super Guarantee to platform-based gig workers. This modelled outcome would cost approximately $318 million per year but a gig worker with five years in the industry ...

Aware Real Estate snaps up St Leonards site

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2022
... Silvester Fuller, support Aware's Essential Worker Housing program, providing quality accommodation to qualifying essential workers at reduced rents. The deal fits with the newly established Aware Real ­Estate 's focused investment theme targeting locations ...

BUSSQ sees strength in niche super

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2022
... Builders, he is an accredited lawyer and accountant. Given that BUSSQ's core membership is made up of construction workers. Taylor brings a fresh perspective to the fiduciary. "I see these guys on-site day in, day out," he says. "I know what it's ...

Retirement fears on the rise: AMP

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 SEP 2022
... key goals identified include paying off the mortgage and saving more super. "While it's encouraging that more Australian workers are now thinking about their retirement plans...this still only represents a third of the population," Hillier said. "Our ...

Aware Super launches $7 billion property arm

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2022
... focus is on sites close to important urban infrastructure like hospitals, schools and transport, to make sure essential workers can live closer to work and reduce commuting time," McNally said. An issued statement said that a key consideration in the ...

Financial stress at record highs: AMP

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2022
... costs as a result of volatile investment markets, rising inflation and higher interest rates." In 2022, nearly a million workers are severely financially distressed which AMP principally attributes to people's dissatisfaction with their current circumstances ...

Affordable housing super's Achilles' heel: Weaven

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2022
... today, she would address the lower levels of retirement savings for women. "The system was designed for full-time permanent workers, and we can see now when we look at the retirement balances of men and women, there's an unacceptable differential ...