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Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten

Credit unions mount 'social' battle against banks

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... research of 1,000 Australian voters, two out of three respondents want an independent review of the system. "Australians are angry about the dominance of the major banks," Abacus CEO Louise Petschler said. "[Our] Balance Banking campaign will lobby for ...

Market shocks likely: Advance Asset Management

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... operating in the comfort or "complacency zone." The divide between rich and poor is bigger than ever before, "the voter is angry, and rightly so," he said, speaking at a round table yesterday. China is a "slow moving freight train", weaning itself off ...

Just do it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... with 78 billion euros worth of austerity measures (if Parliament decides to pass the plan tomorrow night). Never mind the angry mob rioting on the streets of Athens, for without the 12 billion euro lifeline from the 'troika' - EU/ECB/IMF - even the Greek ...

Investor revolt threatens 30 fund managers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... Wellington Capital Limited say they have done their best, and that have the support of many other unit-holders in the fund. The angry investors have asked Castlereagh Capital Limited, a subsidiary of insolvency specialist firm BRI Ferrier, to take control ...

Planners prime legal targets for angry clients

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... own, can leverage off other advisers in dealer groups, he said. But even thorough, diligent advisers can still be sued by angry clients when things go wrong. Kelly said even if an adviser was found not guilty in court, the damage is usually already done ...

SG jump twice as bad as mining tax slug

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... groups who will be paying the bills for the reforms - miners and employers - is not so positive. Employer groups are also angry that the SG increase violates a promise made by the Rudd Government in 2007. The problem, explains the ACCI, is that because ...

Greek tragedy overwhelms Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... would think I've really lost it. Obama put into words what most Americans felt. "Some (Americans) are frustrated; some are angry. They don't understand why it seems like bad behaviour on Wall Street is rewarded but hard work on Main Street isn't; or ...

Wall Street v Main Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2010
... 3.1 per cent. So what has changed? What's changed is the tenor of US politics. American taxpayers had every right to be angry at their banks and financial institutions for creating the mess they find themselves in and angrier that they are forced to ...

Now that's challenging

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
... considered a very safe Democrat stronghold - might have become too loud for US President Obama not to hear. US taxpayers are angry. Furious that their taxes went into propping up banks and financial institutions who gave their employees large bonuses ...