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Aware Super adds government relations head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... Forbes will lead the government relations and policy team in building on its relationships with federal and state governments to achieve positive policy outcomes. She previously worked at MLC Life Insurance as executive lead - relationship management ...

ERS applicants $3100 worse off

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... payment schemes to all customers, McKell further suggests. "The banks themselves offered mortgage holidays, and State governments implemented moratoriums with regards to residential tenancy. However, more should have been done to avoid the necessity ...

Chief economist update: Money plus confidence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
"The circulation of confidence is better than the circulation of money." - James Madison, 4th President of the USA (1809-1817) and Founding Father The Morrison government circulating more money which, according to the Budget Papers 2020-21, amounts ...

Chief economist update: Gone fishing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... jobs "and you feed him for a lifetime". "In going forward, the challenge we face is to create jobs, and the state governments do control many of the levers here. They control many of the infrastructure programs. They do much of the health and education ...

FSC calls for scaled advice model

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... body's recommendations would help drive Australia's long-term economic recovery. "As Australia's federal and state governments meet as the National Cabinet to develop a new economic agenda to get Australia back to work, other recovery plans are being ...

AIST pushes for policy reform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... reform, in a bid to scale up super fund investment in infrastructure, energy and housing. In a statement sent to state governments, relevant department heads and the National COVID-19 Coordination Commission, the AIST identified a range of investment ...

SMSFA, FSC call for infrastructure investment access

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2020
... streams to fund Australians' retirement." "Stronger infrastructure investment would allow the National Cabinet and State Governments to turbocharge asset recycling to finance new job-creating infrastructure projects and create jobs."

Stimulus stutters amid record unemployment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... package is estimated to be worth $2 billion and likely to run until March 2021. While JobTrainer was welcomed by state governments and the small business ombudsman, many others called for an extension to JobKeeper as priority in light of the increased ...

Chief economist update: We're all Victorians now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... and surveys bore witness to Gov Lowe's words. The charts highlight the country's improving picture as state governments began to relax restrictions and allowed some re-opening of non-essential businesses last month. There's that letter V ...

Melburnians back in the lockup

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... not welcome. In order to ensure that what's happening in Victoria stays in Victoria, all other Australian state governments have closed their borders with the infected state. This should help limit the coronavirus from migrating beyond the Victorian ...