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Good Budget, bad Budget

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2015
... make predictions, especially about the future". You, I and Irene already know what happened to ex-Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's guessed and "promised" A$1.5 billion underlying cash balance (0.1% of GDP) surplus for 2012/13. It amazingly turned into ...

ASIC publishes Medcraft travel details

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2014
... his role with IOSCO - to which he was elected early last year and for which he received the support of then Treasurer Wayne Swan - particularly for missing key parliamentary hearings into ASIC. The document lists in separate columns the meetings carried ...

Baird proposes tax changes for NSW infrastructure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... equivalents and put it back to work in the state, back towards additional infrastructure?" Baird said former Treasurer Wayne Swan did not like the idea, but that the new Treasurer - who is part of a government that has dubbed itself the "infrastructure ...

Savings trap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... prescription is easier said than done. Not with the government of the day still hung up - though not as religious as Wayne Swan - over eventually hitting that budget surplus nirvana. Not with the budget deficit predicted to widen to A$30.1 billion this ...

Economy 'not running out of puff': Wayne Swan

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUL 2013
Former Treasurer and Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan has reassured Australians that the economy is 'not running out of puff' with the construction and services sectors well poised to replace the mining sector as drivers of economic growth. In his first ...

Government to update More Super calculator

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2013
... intended retirement age, current earnings and super balance. The joint announcement of the update came from Treasurer Wayne Swan and Minister for Financial Services and Superannuation Bill Shorten, and will draw attention to one of the government's key ...

Financial markets give the budget a big yawn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2013
... built on forecasts - also known as guesses - about the future. You, I and Irene already know what happened to Treasurer Wayne Swan's guessed and "promised" A$1.5 billion underlying cash balance (0.1% of GDP) surplus for 2012/13. It amazingly turned into ...

Down, down, dollar down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 MAY 2013
... the growth limiting impact of the increased taxation and spending restraint/cuts that Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan would deliver at tomorrow's Budget night. The 64 million dollar question is whether or not the A$ would be able to stay down ...

Exchange-traded government bonds to trade on ASX

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... to diversify their funding sources and offer opportunities for retail investor participation," Deputy Prime Minister Wayne Swan and Minister for Financial Services Bill Shorten said in a statement. The Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) ...

RBA to raise rates in Wayne's world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... rate. This is, of course, if you follow Australian Federal Treasurer and 2011's Euromoney Finance Minister of the Year, Wayne Swan, that budget surpluses provide the RBA "maximum flexibility to cut interest rates." Swannie even took credit for the RBA's ...