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Govt slams Labor on ASIC budget cuts

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007
... hand we have Mr Tanner implying ASIC is bloated and wasteful and can do without $130 million. On the other hand we have Senator Wong, who has welcomed increases to ASIC funding as recently as mid-2006. Which Labor spokesperson are we meant to believe ...

...while Dutton says Labor is missing the MIS point

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007
... a false hope to AMIS operators to score cheap political points. Dutton also said Labor's Primary Industries Spokesman Senator Kerry O'Brien and Bowen have nonetheless criticised the ATO decision. "The changes announced by the Howard Government to the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... called for a return to the 150 per cent R&D tax concessions that were introduced by the Hawke and Keating governments. Senator Carr noted that automotives, pharmaceuticals, information technology and greenhouse technologies were technologies that Australia ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... recommendations are highly consistent with last week's proposals by the Government to streamline FSR, with ideas floated by Senator Nick Sherry for a central national clearing house, and with the Association of Financial Advisers call for fund transfers ...

ASIC shadow shop draws zero consumer complaints

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
... inviting them to lodge a complaint. The problem is not one complaint was received, ASIC has now confirmed. On 1 September, Senator John Watson asked a question on notice in the Senate to the minister representing the Treasurer who is responsible for ...

Sen Chapman explains Parliamentary Inquiry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2006
Holding his cards close to his chest, Senator Grant Chapman, Chairman of the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure and Operation of the Superannuation Industry, gave a few hints about the big issues confronting the Inquiry. Speaking at the Association ...

Ban default super funds: FPA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... consumers [introduces so much regulation that it] results in a lack of access to planning then its sub-optimal," said Hill. Senator Brandis acknowledged these concerns when he asked the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA) during its ...

Keating and Sen Chapman to launch AFA conference

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
Senator Grant Chapman, chairman of the upcoming and controversial Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure of the Superannuation Industry, together with former Prime Minister Paul Keating, will headline the Australian Financial Advisers annual conference ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
... mechanics, 29 tilers, 31 bricklayers and plasterers. Labor claims that most were therefore cheap unskilled labour, although Senator Vanstone said that the opposition's figures were unreliable due to sampling problems and included children and spouses ...

Parl committee to review entire super industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
... political mission. The committee is likely to become controversial because it is being chaired by the Liberal Party's Senator Grant Chapman, who in the past has been a major critic of industry funds. According to the committee's official documents, its ...