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Industry fund buys $7 million beef stake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... 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 create more ...

Complex operations leaving life customers confused

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 18 AUG 2017
... TAL being an expert in the field, with record mental health claims for the business last year. In a separate session, Nationals senator John Williams raised concerns over younger people's ignorance about group insurance. Senator Williams pressed AMP ...

Banks narrowly avoid parliamentary inquiry

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUN 2017
... Williams, was later defeated in the House of Representatives after Foreign Minister Julie Bishop missed the vote and Nationals MP George Christensen chose to vote with the Liberal Party - tying the vote 70-70. Christensen had earlier indicated his intention ...

Distribution reshapes globalisation: Capital Group

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 JUN 2017
... investment director Andy Budden and the firm's New Perspective Fund, which continues to invest with a hypothesis that multi-nationals will benefit from global secular trends uncommon to past decades. Budden says these large companies traditionally created ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... Wales and Northern Ireland) 4. Maintain the common travel area with Ireland 5. Control of immigration 6. Rights for EU nationals in Britain, and British nationals in the EU 7. Protect workers' rights 8. Free trade with European markets 9. New trade agreements ...

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 ...