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Nationals senator not giving up on life insurance investigation

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
Senator John Williams said regardless of what Parliament ultimately looks like after a hotly-contested election, he will prioritise continuing the Senate Economics References Committee's life insurance industry investigation. Speaking to Financial Standard ...

Budget big picture

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... the forward estimates, pointing to why Treasurer Scott Morrison has had to go after high-end superannuants and multi-nationals. In an at times faltering and nervous speech, the Treasurer tonight announced that the Australian government this financial ...

ASIC grilled on whistleblower compensation

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2015
... from the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). At the latest Senate Economics Committee hearing, Nationals' Senator John Williams asked: "I think our treatment of whistleblowers is disgraceful. I have seen the effects on a couple of ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... culture at IOOF that perhaps led to the alleged wrongdoings but Kelaher said any such culture is "alien" to the company. Nationals' Senator John Williams was provided an update of the current research team at IOOF which includes nine individuals, two ...

A Greek offer that cannot be refused

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... substance since 1968. Today, EU citizens have the right to move to other member states and work there on the same terms as nationals. In hiring staff the discrimination of applicants from EU partner countries would be illegal, for example." ( Deutsche ...

IOOF execs asked to face Senate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... sent today to IOOF chief executive Chris Kelaher and to the business' head of research Peter Hilton, a spokesperson for Nationals' Senator John Williams told Financial Standard. The hearing would fall under the Economics Committee Scrutiny of Financial ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... has given his backing to small business tax cuts made in the budget but has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support the lower corporate tax rate. ...

Sacked Macquarie advisers still in the industry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... allegedly using to cheat on their exams: "There is no evidence that it existed at all," he said. Moore was reminded that Nationals Senator John Williams personally gave a copy of the file to Macquarie employees. Moore answered: "You gave us an answer ...

Big end of town to face Senate over bad advice

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... financial advice industry" the numerous financial advice scandals that have been unveiled over the last few months. Nationals Senator John Williams said he specifically wants to ask ANZ about the 8,500 clients of the bank's advice division who did not ...

NAB to face Senate grilling over advice scandal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2015
... about what went on, what's going on and what they are prepared to say about the most recent scandal," Dastyari said. Nationals' Senator John Williams, who recently filed a formal request with Treasury to set up the Royal Commission, noted that the Economics ...