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Govt continues to target high income HHs

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
... cutting out when household income exceeds $240,000. Michael Moore, chief executive of the Public Health Association, told ABC Radio this morning that cutting the rebate will have only marginal impact on the health outcomes of Australians because of the ...

Parlie inquiry into sales commissions

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2009
... superannuation and corporate law, has welcomed the Inquiry and is expected to play a major supporting role. Speaking on ABC radio this morning, Senator Ripoll said, "I find it difficult to understand how anybody could advise let's say an older Australian ...

ETS is upside down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... output, it should penalise emissions consumption not its production. Geoff Carmody, founder of Access Economics, told ABC Radio in Canberra this morning that penalising only the businesses that produce emissions will simply drive us to buy cheaper goods ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... above where they should be. Shane Oliver, chief economist and chief investment strategist at AMP Capital Investors, told ABC Radio this morning that oil prices should be about US$80-90 per barrel based purely on the fundamentals of demand and supply. ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
... include a former chief economist of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz and now Columbia University professor, who told ABC Radio that "countries that follow inflation targets are more likely to get themselves into trouble". Stiglitz, who won the Nobel Prize ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... need the government's help are those earning $60,000 and below, not high income earners. The comments were reported on ABC radio. "They're the people who make up the vast majority of our country [and the people] we need to look after," he said. The broader ...

Rents to jump 50 pct, inflation to hit 4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... the same pre-occupation with home ownership as previous generations," Michael McNamara, APM's operations manager, told ABC radio this morning. McNamara said they "want to be where the action is", not out in the boondocks paying off a suburban house. ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... from increased profits from the corporate sector was redistributed by the Howard government to the battlers," he told ABC radio yesterday. But even leading economists have dismissed the call, arguing that to freeze expenditure would constrain the government ...

Tricom trading on unusual terms

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2008
... representatives working from the office of Tricom in Sydney to monitor margin loans. Tricom managing director Lance Rosenberg told ABC Radio that "in my judgement no one will lose their money & We fully intend to be in business. We fully intend to rebuild ...

Councils exposed

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2007
... Australia understood the degree of risk and embedded leverage in those products. Local Government Minister Paul Lynch told ABC Radio this week that his department and the NSW Treasury were investigating the level of councils' exposure and reviewing investment ...