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Government renews calls for financial literacy support

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... the expansion of its national financial literacy program in schools. The Government has invited state and territory governments to participate in a new agreement that would see the ASIC MoneySmart Teaching program remain in place for a further four years ...

ASIC adds life insurance to school curriculums

KARREN VERGARA AND JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... primary and secondary schools. Already the regulator is undertaking an extensive program with state and territory governments to train teachers and update classroom materials around Australia, ASIC deputy chair Peter Kell told the recent life insurance ...

Infrastructure receives $75 billion boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... expanding into equity and debt financing to "augment" its infrastructure spending, encouraging the state and territory governments not to rely heavily on Federal grants. The Treasurer allocated $75 billion to infrastructure, with transport receiving ...

Housing affordability threatens super's future

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAR 2017
... owner-occupied housing within the pension assets test, and providing grants or low interest rate loans to state and territory governments for the construction of more affordable rental dwellings. Additionally, Eslake called on governments to reduce the ...

Archaic gender rules mask super benefits

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2016
... Australia's national anti-discrimination laws," Santow said. "In light of this, it is vital that state and territory governments take the necessary legislative steps to ensure that all of their laws, including anti-discrimination laws, are consistent ...

Consensus emerging on Tax White Paper

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... federations. As for the GST, Hockey said no change will be considered without the unanimous agreement of state and territory governments and bipartisan support in the Federal Parliament. "It's also worth reminding everyone that before we go further down ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... Commonwealth and States blur where the buck stops. Over the next eighteen months, we will work with State and Territory Governments to strengthen the Federation and ensure that the overlap between the layers of government is reduced or removed. I say ...

Future Fund to adopt ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
... when it came to practicing ESG principles. "With so much emphasis on climate change from federal, state and territory governments, many people will be shocked to discover government-controlled funds are still investing $47 in fossil fuels and uranium ...

BAD tax to be scrapped

AAP  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2004
State and territory governments today agreed to shoot down the Bank Accounts Debit (BAD) tax more than four years after Treasurer Peter Costello put the tax in his sights. The meeting of federal state and territory treasurers agreed the BAD tax would ...

Federal, State and Territory governments to deal with property hustlers

The Commonwealth, States and Territories have agreed to set up a working party to establish a common regulatory framework to deal with high-pressure property investment marketers. "This is a positive first step by all the parties to effectively tackle ...
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