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One more vote needed for $3m super tax

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
Despite being dropped from the Senate program today, the Better Targeted Superannuation Concessions Bill could soon be a reality, with the government needing to secure just one more supporter. The Bill was supposed to be debated in the Senate today ...

Coalition members call for superannuation guarantee reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... give workers the choice to limit their superannuation guarantee (SG) - to receive higher take-home pay. National Party senator Matt Canavan said the Coalition should consider giving workers more control over their superannuation, allowing them to limit ...

Firms treat CSLR as 'insurance policy': FAAA

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... and that politicians understand what advisers do in a way that they did not a few years ago. "In the conversations with Senator Hanson, there was a lot about the fact that our profession is a profession of small businesspeople... and how much of a new ...

Swan hits back at Bragg: 'That's wrong of you'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 29 NOV 2024
... reinforced that the delays in claims handling was primarily due to issues with a third-party provider, to which committee chair Senator Andrew Bragg sought to remind him of trustees' obligations. "We are not the only fund that has a challenge with ...

Swan tells Bragg he won't front parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... Committee over issues with the fund's recent board appointments and claims handling delays. In a letter to committee chair Senator Andrew Bragg, Swan thanked Bragg for the invitation but said he didn't have anything more to add than what was already ...

Cbus confirms CFMEU nominations to board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 NOV 2024
... will commence soon, with tenure and committee appointments to be settled. The nominations were questioned last week by Senator Andrew Bragg when Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok fronted the Senate economics committee. When asked whether he believed ...

Cbus board still considering CFMEU directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2024
... namely because Crumlin chaired the severely underperforming Maritime Super for many years prior to its merger with Cbus. Senator Andrew Bragg, as chair of the Senate Economics References Committee, asked Fok whether O'Mara, Crumlin and Weber are ...

Bragg calls for Cbus to front Senate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 NOV 2024
Senator Andrew Bragg has called on Cbus chief executive Kristian Fok to face a Senate inquiry over the recent legal proceedings launched by ASIC against the fund and the CFMEU scandal. "The reason that we're having a Senate inquiry in Canberra into ...

ASIC chair defends Chairman's Lounge memberships

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... member of the invite-only Chairman's Lounge. Longo said he doesn't believe or recall ever receiving an upgrade but told Senator David Pocock that all Chairman's Lounge memberships held by ASIC employees are disclosed. Pocock asked Longo whether he believes ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... its first SSN-AUKUS in the late 2030s and Australia will follow suit in the early 2040s. What's worrying for Greens senator David Shoebridge is that the bill allows for the "dumping of US and UK intermediate-level waste and other high-level nuclear ...