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Labor policies boost superannuation agenda

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2019
... policies. Following years of continuous reforms, the Labor party is looking to implement further changes compared to the Liberals. The AIST said it supports the following Labor proposals: Abolishing the $450 monthly threshold for superannuation guarantee ...

Industry welcomes tax cuts and surplus

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2019
... industry. Frydenberg extolled the Liberal Party for transforming a 12-year deficit to a long-awaited surplus. When the Liberals took power, it inherited a $55 billion deficit, he said, and promised 10 million Australians with a $158 billion tax relief. ...

Budget 2019-20: Social media reacts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... reactions on social media when he handed down the 2019-20 Budget tonight. Here's what Twitter accounts had to say. The Liberals boasted achieving a Budget surplus - the first in over a decade. #BREAKING : This year, for the first time in over a decade ...

Labor proposes RC implementation task force

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... saying only 27 customers have had a chance to speak, despite the Commission receiving more than 9000 submissions. "They [Liberals] were dragged kicking and screaming in to the Royal Commission and they gave it a reasonably short time frame," she said. ...

Baby boomers receive $259 million, pension work bonus lifted

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... government $227.4 million over the next five years from 2017-2018. This makes it the most sizeable chunk (88%) of the Liberals' $258.6 million package for a "range of measures that will enhance the standard of living of older Australians." The government ...

Industry fund buys $7 million beef stake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... First State Super members. Deputy Premier and Minister for Small Business and Regional NSW, John Barilaro said: "The Liberals and Nationals Government is doing business differently in NSW, putting our money where our mouth is, to ensure we continue to ...

Shorten attacks government's retro super changes

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... We welcome the fact that, three years after they voted to abolish Labor's low-income superannuation contribution, the Liberals have decided to keep it and simply rename it," Shorten said. He added the government was dangerously undermining super by claiming ...

Tax conversation in a bubble

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2015
... National Seniors, are now acknowledging that change may be inevitable. The Labor party has already committed to it, and the Liberals may not be far behind." Chapman said the argument for reform is based on the hypothesis that many of the wealthiest Australians ...

Ripoll labels Cormann's FoFA changes "a stunt"

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2014
... it will ban commissions on general advice. "Commissions have already been banned. By Labor," Ripoll said on Twitter. "Liberals say they will ban commissions in financial advice. What a stunt. Commissions have already been banned," Ripoll tweeted shortly ...

Budget reply speech 2014 -15: Bill Shorten