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Workers to wear SG rise: Shorten

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 4 NOV 2010
... increase is however not expected to be well received by the union movement, despite the fact that Shorten is a former Secretary of the Australian Workers Union. The idea that the SG increase could come at the expense of take home pay may also surprise ...

Griffith resigns from Count Financial

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... by December. Count Financial issued a brief ASX statement last Friday stating that Griffith has resigned as company secretary. She has been with the company since 1999 and, as senior executive in research and product, was in charge of the group's Approved ...

G-20 gabfest at Gyeongju

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
... guidelines that would enforce concrete actions to prevent unilateral policies from the other mammoths. Too hard. US Treasury Secretary Timmy Geithner tried... and failed. He suggested limiting current account imbalances to four per cent of GDP. This ...

Lower fees or lose advantage: ACTU

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
... keep lowering their fees or risk losing one of their key competitive advantages over retail funds. Tim Lyons, assistant secretary of the Australian Council of Trade Unions said one of the top challenges facing the not-for-profit sector is driving down ...

Fed bearing gift of QE2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... that Chinese exports rose to US$145 billion in September - the second highest on record. Did I just hear US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner cursed the undervalued yuan? There goes another... this time from Japanese Prime Minister Naota Kan. But underneath ...

Much ado over more of the same

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is not confused. Presenting its latest outlook in New York, OECD secretary-general Angel Durria said that, "It is becoming increasingly clear that the economy has entered a soft patch, but ...

A "race to the bottom" in currencies

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... currencies to play a greater role in resolving global imbalances going forward, noting that recent rhetoric from US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner against China has been noticeably stronger. But putting pressure on China to allow the Yuan to appreciate ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... In economics news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (economic) Dr Philip Lowe, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry and OECD chief statistician Martine Durand are scheduled to speak at the NatStats 2010 conference at Darling Harbour ...

Unions threaten strikes with BBC pension reforms looming

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010

WA senator appointed super shadow minister

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... appointed shadow minister for regional communications, youth and sport. Senator Cormann has served as shadow parliamentary secretary for health administration from late 2008 to the end of last year. He was also a member of the opposition shadow ministry ...