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Industry leaders join Prospa board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
Two prominent female financial services executives have joined the board of online small business lender Prospa. Gail Pemberton and Fiona Trafford-Walker have been appointed as independent non-executive directors, while current director Greg Ruddock ...

Tax breaks delivered to first home buyers

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... young families delaying the purchase of their first home," budget documents say. While the scheme is loosely based on the Rudd government's first home saver account that were introduced in 2008 but abandoned by the Abbott government, this new scheme ...

Citi appoints government affairs head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... Financial Services Council. He has also been a government relations manager at PwC, a senior adviser at the Office of Kevin Rudd, a Treasury economist and principal policy analyst at Treasury and Finance Tasmania. Bond's appointment follows the news ...

One week delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 JAN 2017
... Partnership (TPP) as promised... all within a week in office. He's a businessman and not a politician after all. Think Kevin Rudd, think Julia Gillard, think Tony Abbot, think Malcolm Turnbull - pick one who hasn't gone back on campaign pledges. The ...

PROFILE: Industry Super Australia chief economist Stephen Anthony

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... downturn. [All] that work actually became the three Ts approach - temporary, targeted and timely - that underpinned Kevin Rudd's response during the Global Financial Crisis. I was very proud of that work," Anthony says. He then moved to the department ...

PROFILE: Mercer senior partner David Knox

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Darren Snyder discovers what really drives industry veteran and Mercer senior partner David Knox. In the same year Kevin Rudd began his first term as Prime Minister, David Knox wrote a paper in conjunction with the Committee for Economic Development ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2016
... $257 billion - meaning government debt has increased $165 billion since this time. In June 2007, about the same time as the Rudd government was elected, total government debt was just $58 billion, ie, government debt has increased more than 600% since ...

The horse still refuses to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... political dynamics continues, I fear that the latest prescriptions from the National Reform Summit would go the way of former PM Rudd's "Australia 2020 Summit" convened in April 2008 - where reportedly Rudd rejected 135 of the 138 recommendations.

Lift preservation age to 65, save $7bn annually

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... accounts for] almost one half of men and over one-third of women who retire between the ages of 60 and 64." The previous Rudd government in 2009 lifted the age at which retirees born after 1957 to 67 years can access their age pension. The Abbott government ...

Tme to get fiscal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... Abbott and his cigar-smoking Treasurer Joe Hockey. Yes, Virginia. They've been telling us since they were still opposing Rudd then Gillard then Rudd how woeful Australia's economy has become and that we're getting there. Slowly, but surely, Australians ...