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Axe super for low-income earners: Senator

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUL 2019
A newly elected Liberal Senator wants to make superannuation voluntary for those earning less than $50,000 per annum. Lashing the super industry in his first speech to the Senate, new Liberal Senator for New South Wales Andrew Bragg said compulsory ...

Industry supports super threshold removal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... superannuation entitlements." The proposal was put forward by the Senate Economics Committee and supported by Liberal Senator Jane Hume and Labor Senator Chris Ketter. It calls for the $450-a-month wage threshold - which has allowed employers to forego ...

Labor opposes super trustee governance bill

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... Regulation Authority (APRA) to have at least one third independent directors, and appoint an independent chair. Liberal senator Sean Edwards chaired the Senate Economics Legislation Committee and prepared the final report. "The committee is of the view ...

Claims of wrongdoing have no basis: IOOF

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... publicly have been investigated by the company's compliance team and through the ordinary course of their duties. Liberal Senator Sean Edwards proposed there was bullying culture at IOOF that perhaps led to the alleged wrongdoings but Kelaher said any ...

Coalition Senators head-to-head over FoFA

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... by Nationals' Senator John Williams after he staged a parliamentary confrontation against Finance Minister and Liberal Senator Mathias Cormann. The Senate Standing Committee on Regulations and Ordinances, chaired by Williams, has given Cormann 15 more ...

Opposition wants to postpone vote on FoFA bill

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 SEP 2014
... Labor disallowance motion that would have blocked the government's proposed changes. The inquiry report, signed by Liberal Senator Sean Edwards, argues that "the bill in its current iteration remains fundamentally the same in its intent and effect as ...

CBA needs to"lift its game": Treasurer

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2014
... or a Royal Commission and referred to the dissenting report tabled by the Senate Economics Committee chair and Liberal Senator David Bushby. "He did make a very persuasive argument that yet another inquiry might not be the best way forward," Cormann ...

Government plays down support for royal commission

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... deeper investigation and made comments aftre reading a 'dissenting report' by the deputy chair of the committee, Liberal Senator David Bushby. "'He did make a very persuasive argument that yet another inquiry might not be the best way forward," Cormann ...

Parliament passes temporary tax levy

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
High-income earners will pay more tax after parliament approved the coalition government's first budget measure. The temporary budget repair levy increases the top income tax rate, which applies to any income earned over $180,000, from 45 per cent to ...

ASIC to consider complaints about ISA's 'Compare the Pair'

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... specifically looking at whether or not the campaign "provides a fair representation or conveys a misleading impression." Liberal Senator for South Australia and chair of the PJC David Fawcett talked about "calculations clearly by people who are supporting ...