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Senate pushes for Sinodinos to explain corruption allegations

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2014
... Sinodinos to stand aside during the hearings into AWH, a company which has links to Labor figure Eddie Obeid. Yesterday Labor MP Kelvin Thomson, who was Shadow Assistant Treasurer between 1998 and 2001, said that "it would be in the best interest of ...

Calls for Sinodinos to "step aside" amid ICAC allegations

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
A Labor MP has called for Assistant Treasurer Senator Arthur Sinodinos to step aside during the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) inquiry into his involvement with the Eddie Obeid-linked Australian Water Holdings (AWH). Sinodinos is set ...

Gunns chair pleads guilty to insider trading

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2013
... Gunns' previous chairman, Edmund Rouse, also attained a conviction but of the more serious charge of bribing Tasmanian Labor MP Jim Cox with $110,000 to cross the floor of parliament. Since 2009, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) ...

Govt loses, then wins vote on super legislation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2013
The House of Representatives voted in favour of Opposition amendments designed to ensure at least a third of super fund trustees have to be independent before the government regrouped to rule out the amendment. According to a statement from Opposition ...

PJC releases MySuper report

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2012
... also recommended parliament pass the super legislation. The PJC on Corporations and Financial Services is chaired by Labor MP Deborah O'Neill, after Bernie Ripoll was promoted to Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer in the cabinet reshuffle earlier ...

PJC: Government needs to re-think payday reforms

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... up industry concerns that proposed caps would affect the viability of short-term lending. The PJC inquiry, chaired by Labor MP Bernie Ripoll, has recommended the government review the proposals, describing the proposed caps on payday lending fees and ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
Phew! That was one hell of a ride wasn't it? Now that our collective heartbeats have calmed down to their resting pace, what now? Well let's see. As far as Ireland goes, it's going... to do something, that is. It's got the weight of Europe plus the ...

Labor to support FTA with US

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2004
The Labor Party will support the proposed free trade agreement with the United States after a crucial caucus meeting this morning voted in favour of the deal. Labor sources said two thirds of Labor parliamentarians supported the deal after ALP members ...
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