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AFCA, key housing bills passed

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
... Nation leader Pauline Hanson supported the bill but said that housing pressures could also be alleviated by curbing immigration levels. The ATO will be given the primary responsibility for administrating the scheme including; determining the eligibility ...

Aussie super maintains good grades

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... Buckingham said the report shows Australia's pension system is good but there is room for improvement. "Without the immigration of young people from other countries our ageing locally-born population would face significant challenges funding their retirement," ...

Australia a nation changing fast: Census

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... decade this growth rate jumped one fifth to 1.7% pa. This population growth is driven by fertility, longevity and immigration - and it is resulting in a nation that is ageing as Australia's median age has jumped from 36 to 38 years. Reflecting this change ...

Decidedly undecided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 APR 2017
... support the transatlantic alliance." (The Economist) In literal contrasts, Mademoiselle Le Pen "plans to cut legal immigration in France to 10,000 people a year, put a tax on foreign workers and bring back border controls that the EU eliminated. On the ...

Wednesday delivery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2017
... from the gradually rising doubts over Trump's pro-growth policies, there are his "anti-growth" policies on trade and immigration and "border tax plan" on imports. Not to mention, the US equity market's expensive valuation. The S&P 500 index is currently ...

Trump's tweets and deeds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 FEB 2017
... Both the good- corporate and personal income tax cuts, infrastructure spending, deregulation - and bad - border tax, immigration and trade protectionism. I have no beef with Trump delivering on his "good" campaign promises but the "bad" ones are worrying ...

A world of distrust: Edelman

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 27 JAN 2017
... country's workers." Of the 28 countries surveyed, half had lost faith in the system, citing corruption, globalization, immigration, the pace of innovation, and eroding of social values are lead fears. "Business is the last retaining wall for trust," ...

Still unsure about POTUS 45

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... disappeared over the horizon. From this moment on, it's going to be America first. Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs, will be made to benefit American workers and American families. We will bring back our jobs. We ...

No deal is better than bad deal on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2017
... Union (Britain, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland) 4. Maintain the common travel area with Ireland 5. Control of immigration 6. Rights for EU nationals in Britain, and British nationals in the EU 7. Protect workers' rights 8. Free trade with European ...

Investors must look further than US: J.P. Morgan

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JAN 2017
The coming year will see economic momentum build in the US, but investors should not rely solely on US assets according to J.P. Morgan global market strategist Kerry Craig. Speaking at a media roundtable yesterday, Craig advised that investors should ...