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Industry backs Cormann as Superannuation Minister

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
... business. "Before the elections the government and the regulators were in caretaker mode, but now work starts." Prime minister-elect Tony Abbott has said that the new Government is likely to be sworn in early next week.

Under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2013
"Does this guy ever shut up?" Then Opposition leader, now Australia's 28th Prime Minister (let's dispense with the "elect", shall we?) Tony Abbott was portrayed as an arrogant aggressor when he blurted out these words on 21 August during his leadership ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
... rose 0.53 per cent while Milan dropped 1.35 per cent amid renewed fears over the government's stability as former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi tries to avoid being expelled from parliament for his tax fraud conviction. The euro firmed to $US1.3217 ...

30 days hath September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2013
... hit the headlines.A "What Li likes Li gets" (this used to be "what Wen wants...", but I have to adapt to the new Prime Minister). This is because unlike western democracies, China is centrally-planned.A The central government dictates its plans and businesses ...

Rudd promises to expand Super Clearing House

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has said he will extend the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House service to businesses with fewer than 100 employees if he is re-elected. Currently the service is only open to businesses with 19 or fewer employees. ...

Abbott's PPL scheme to hit Australia's charities

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... Bowen said this move would reintroduce double taxation to Australia; something which he said was removed by former Prime Minister Paul Keating in 1987. "That to me is a pretty amazing policy development which reintroduces double taxation in Australia ...

Australia, a middle power between China and US

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 15 AUG 2013
... Australia, with an economy that increasingly gravitates towards Asia. As an anecdote, Pollack explained that Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd speaks "extraordinary" Chinese, an ability that "gives him a degree of entrA(C)e into China that most world ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2013
... of employment figures for July on Thursday would be key events for the market during the week. Mr Daghlian said Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's announcement on Sunday that a federal election would be held on September 7 was unlikely to influence the market. ...

The good, the good and the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... them of the Reinhart and Rogoff infamy. There's sun shining ever so brightly in the Land of the Rising Sun with Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his government and his 'Abenomics' getting a thumbs up from Japanese voters. His ruling coalition won control ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2013
... caution over economic activity. Meanwhile, the Tokyo stock market was lifted by a big parliamentary election win for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling party. London's FTSE 100 index of leading shares closed down 0.11 per cent to end at 6,623.17 points ...