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Abenomics strengthens investment ties with Japan

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... Asian powers threatened to close the door on Japanese resource imports. However, within 48 hours of the incident, Julia Gillard pledged to meet Japan's vital industrial demand for rare earth metals indefinitely. "Japan and Australia are very close emotionally ...

Li gets what Li likes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... already the happiest industrial country in the world...for the third year running at that! The OECD seems to have handed the Gillard-Swan tandem bragging rights campaign material to take to the 14 September elections. Happiest in the industrialised world ...

Losing triple A by trying to maintain AAA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013

ASFA warns govt against Super raid

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... super in the Budget as it would reinvigorate the panic and knock consumer confidence in the system." Prime Minister Julia Gillard told the Per Capita forum in Canberra that the latest estimates pointed to a $12 billion shortfall in government revenue. ...

$10bn CEFC fund gets govt mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... of development and take a long term outlook when setting its investment strategy. It was part of Prime Minister Julia Gillard's July 2011 announcement on the government's plan for a clean energy future. The CEFC has set its mission to: "Accelerate Australia's ...

Missing the forest for the trees

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 APR 2013
... previous month - lower than expectations for a 2.4% gain. And what a fine time it is for Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard to score a "strategic partnership" with it, don't you think? And oh, Australian businesses will also now be able to directly ...

BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
... economic interest to see "Abenomics" and the BOJ's bazooka succeed. A layover in Tokyo on your way to or back from China Ms. Gillard?

Super will improve under Labor: Shorten

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... Bill Shorten indicated that Labor plans to "improve" super at the sixth Super Roundtable held yesterday as part of the Gillard Government's reform agenda. Shorten hosted the roundtable that brought together representatives of the superannuation industry ...

ASMA dismayed by proposed super hikes

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... to the Australian Self Managed Super Fund Members Association (ASMA). Yesterday Treasurer Wayne Swan confirmed that the Gillard government is considering closing the door on "excessively generous" superannuation tax breaks for the wealthy. Director of ...

Super election infighting intensifies

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2013
... last month's failed leadership spill, has said he would strongly appose any changes to superannuation and urged Julia Gillard and Treasurer Wayne Swan to reveal exactly what changes were planned. Crean said he'd never threatened to cross the floor on ...