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Elliott appeal dismissed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... reducing his ban as a company director from 10 to seven years. Lawyers for Elliott won a 21-day stay while the former Liberal Party and Carlton Football Club president considers whether to appeal against the latest decision. Elliott is also facing bankruptcy ...

Simon Crean hails ALP as the 'Party of the Superannuants' at talk today

... representatives of regulatory organizations and the media, he did criticise some of the policies and practices of the Liberal Party. Meanwhile, the Director of Policy and Research at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) Micheala ...

Recommitment to super issues being emphasised by federal politicians: ASFA

... "In some cases, during the conference, we tried to set the agenda and in other cases we let Labor's Mark Latham and the Liberal's Senator Coonan deliberately set the agenda. Both clearly articulated superannuation as a savings vehicle, both as a personal ...

Government's latest super bills face criticism from opposition

... Government's new bills though. Senator Nick Sherry, the shadow minister for retirement incomes and savings, said that the Liberal/Democrat superannuation deal that was passed in the senate was both unbalanced and unfair. He said that those earning $96,000 ...

Australia highlights support for ongoing APEC meeting

In a press release presented to the Financial Standard by the office of Alexander Downer, the minister for foreign affairs, Australia's support for APEC in the ongoing meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, was highlighted in this country's Individual Action ...

APEC will seek to exorcise the failures of WTO Cancun

Next week's meeting of heads of states and ministers at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, will focus on multilateral trade and security issues and will aim to further enhance business facilitation among the 21 ...

Labour lashes out against government's 'phoney portability' of super

... can, can't find them and need to fill in forms - too much red tape." He said the problems will not be solved unless the Liberal Government considers the clear, simple measures suggested by Labor in its policy options paper released in August 2002, and ...

RBA satisfied few businesses elected to surcharge credit cards

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 OCT 2003
A growing number of Australian businesses are imposing a surcharge on credit card users although most are still chosing not to do so, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) said today. The first reform measures the Reserve Bank's payments system board ...

Senator Coonan claims Labor's Senator Sherry has 'hole in his logic'

Senator Helen Coonan, the federal minister for revenue and the assistant treasurer, fired her own broadside in the continuing saga of verbal battles between her office and that of opposition Senator Nick Sherry, in replying to recent criticism by Senator ...

Labor fires another broadside in continuing tirade on Government super policies

The opposition Labor party has claimed that the Liberals' super package announced on Sunday 7 September has a $250 million funding hole. The shadow minister for retirement incomes and savings, Senator Nick Sherry, in his continuing tirade against the ...