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PM: Labor taking reform road on super

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... the age cap would change peoples' futures. Pointing to the work of "visionary" Labor figures including Bob Hawke, Paul Keating and trade unionist Bill Kelty, Gillard said her party was once again "taking the reform road" on superannuation. "That is why ...

Former Treasury Secretary joins NAB Board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... roles at the Australian Bureau of Statistics, New Zealand's University of Canterbury and acted as a senior adviser to Paul Keating. He has also served on the Reserve Bank board, the Board of Taxation and the Council of Financial Regulators. Henry is ...

Russell heads back to Canberra

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2011
... Mellon Asset Management's global investment strategist. His Canberra credentials are that he was former Prime Minister Paul Keating's principal adviser between 1985 and 1993, before which he was senior executive in the Commonwealth Treasury. In 1995 ...

SG at 12pc will help Reserve manage inflation: Keating

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
Former prime minister Paul Keating entered the debate over increasing SG to 12 per cent, arguing that it will help the Reserve Bank manage aggregate demand without raising interest rates. Keating, speaking on ABC television's Lateline program last night ...

Too clever by half

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... these speculations, this is not yet a done deal. Again, I call to the witness stand former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating's L-A-W tax cuts. What's a done deal is more interest rate increases by the Reserve Bank of Australia - if not today - then ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... proposals of minute tinkering at the edges that will be implemented two years from now. Remember what happened to Paul Keating's L-A-W tax cut promise back in 1993? The first round proceeded as promised in 1994, the second round was deferred from 1996 ...

On the shoulders of giants

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 15 MAR 2010
... heading in the next 20 years. He's got big shoes to fill, speaking at the 20th anniversary of CMSF, two decades since Paul Keating who was treasurer at the time spoke at the inaugural event. Like his predecessor, Howes said that the industry must do ...

Costello joins Future Fund board

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
... But Costello's appointment has drawn fire from high profile figures, including former treasurer and Prime Minister Paul Keating. An ABC news report yesterday noted Keating criticised Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's decision to appoint Costello. The report ...

Raise SG to 15 pc: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
... said. Altering SG contributions has certainly been a hot topic of late. Last month, former Australian Prime Minister Paul Keating said lowering SG to stimulate the economy would be a disaster. "The moment you tell a political system [that superannuation] ...

Cutting SG a disaster: Keating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2009
... temporarily to help stimulate the economy, would be an economic disaster, warned former Australian Prime Minister, Paul Keating. At the end of last year, a group of economists lead by Nick Gruen, principal of the Lateral Economics consultancy wrote to ...