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Population growth hits 36 year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
... also running at record highs being the highest level in 19 years. Indeed one of the great ironies during the Howard government's reign was that despite a media focus on refugee asylum policy, immigration during the years 1997-2007 increased two-and-a-half ...

RSL snubs proposed super changes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... retirement fund because the proposed changes could disadvantage military service people. In July last year, the Howard Government created a military superannuation review team to analyse ways to enhance the existing super scheme to improve military recruitment ...

Raise the pension, says seniors

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
... National Seniors, said older Australians were aware that the $500 payment was an election year one-off bonus by the Howard Government, but the body has called for an increase in the Age Pension to buffer mounting living costs. "With inflation rising ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... fact that a large part of that bonus 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 ...

Another rabbit out of the hat

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
On day one of the 'official' election campaign, the Howard government pulled one big rabbit out of the campaign hat with yet more tax cuts, this time to the tune of $34 billion over the next three years. No one voiced cynicism over the timing when Treasurer ...

APX launches first local carbon trading exchange

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... trading exchange has opened today in Melbourne, letting businesses set carbon pricing five years before the Howard government's current 2012 goal. A joint venture between the Australia Pacific Exchange (APX), the Australian Climate Exchange (ACX) will ...

Economic round-up: Money cant buy you love

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2007
... being happier than ever since the Whitlam Government began to implode they still don't seem to care for the Howard Government. Following a dip in consumer confidence last month, according to the latest Westpac/ Melbourne Institute Consumer Confidence ...

Inflation could still rain on the parade

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2007
... automotive sectors, it's received a $12 billion shot in the arm. This is set to continue with customers like the Howard government due to increase their advertising spend to $100 million leading up to the next election. The share market is particularly ...

ALP Govt will boost personal contributions: Swan

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2007
... cent tax on superannuation payouts [after recent union calls it be reimposed], only recently abolished by the Howard Government."

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... Senator Kerry O'Brien and Bowen have nonetheless criticised the ATO decision. "The changes announced by the Howard Government to the tax treatment of non-forestry managed investment schemes without proper consultation with industry could potentially ...