Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 351 - 360 of 421 results for "Federal budget"

Pensioners power unplugged

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
The angry reaction of pensioner groups to last week's Federal Budget highlights how crucial superannuation will be to taking the fiscal edge off aged care benefit entitlements. The government, seemingly caught offguard by the criticism, has said a review ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2008
... private client advisor Bill Bishop said heavyweight resources were carrying the market, while M&A activity and federal budget spends also provided support. "The market has shot up thanks to BHP (and Rio)," he said. Higher base metals prices in London ...

Home loan fall follows rate hikes

AAP  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... is on hold this year." Ms Kevans said the $7 billion worth of tax cuts, expected to be announced in tomorrow's federal budget to come into effect on July 1, would boost housing finance commitments in the second half of this year. Macquarie Group senior ...

Job vacancies bull run falters

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... be about to break will send shudders through the government and Treasury officials now busy preparing the May 13 Federal Budget. The reaction of the capital markets would be even more devastating.

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... three years but doesn't believe executive salaries should follow suit. In its Budget submission, the BCA said the Federal Budget should "Set a target of zero, year-on-year, growth in real expenditure for the next three years [and] & budget allocations ...

Unsticking the CAD

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... extent, could be the US economy recovering and the Fed raising rates again. But with their just announced record federal budget and record deficit this doesn't seem too likely, at least in the short term.

Cautiously upbeat: Economists Forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... guidance. Melinda Cilento, deputy chief executive and chief economist at the Business Council of Australia, said, "The Federal Budget will be the first real test of the government and to what extent fiscal policy is working with or against monetary policy." ...

ATO signs up debt collection heavyweights

... retirement savings," she said. The Tax Office was handed an additional $42 million over four years in this year's federal budget to establish and pay for the services of the panel. It expects to start referring parcels of debt for collection towards ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
... infrastructure spending in areas such as roads, railways, telecommunications, electric power and sea and air ports. But the Federal budget's planned spend of $22.3 billion over five years, commencing in 2009, will fall well short of what CEDA anticipates ...

Economic round-up: Business up, sentiment down

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
... cost inflation, and economy wide prices remained controlled at around 2.6 per cent. It would seem that the 2007-08 Federal Budget's shot in the arm was not sustainable for consumer sentiment as this index has fallen off in June after its record high ...