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Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Tuesday, The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) publishes the minutes of its May 4 monetary policy meeting. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry delivers the Australian Business Economists' annual post-Budget address. RBA Head of Financial Stability Department ...

Simple tax is too taxing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
... If I didn't know better, I would think that the Australian Treasury Secretary's name is Henry Review instead of Dr. Ken Henry. Look around you...pick up a paper...click on a mouse, and you're sure to find Dr. Ken Henry Tax Review splattered across the ...

Tax breaks no enough: seniors

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2010
... retirement age, argues an industry body. Michael O'Neill, chief executive at National Seniors, welcomed head of Treasury, Ken Henry's, proposal for tax concessions to encourage older workers to remain in the workforce. However, he warned that a more ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2009
... economic news on Monday, the Whitlam Institute holds a symposium on "Governing the Economy", featuring Treasury secretary Ken Henry and former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor Bernie Fraser. The RBA releases financial aggregates data for October ...

Tax system should improve wellbeing: Henry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
A landmark speech by Dr Ken Henry, head of Treasury, shows why he terrifies the financial services lobby - he believes the taxation system should be used to boost societal wellbeing rather than protect incumbency. Speaking yesterday at the Committee ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... Australian Chamber of Commerce breakfast. The RBA will release the minutes of its May board meeting. Treasury Secretary Ken Henry delivers his post budget speech to Australian Business Economists on "Contemporary Challenges in Fiscal Policy". In company ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
... Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was three points higher at 3,365. In economic news, Treasury secretary Dr Ken Henry will deliver a keynote dinner speech in Sydney on Monday night on Australian Business Tax Reform in Retrospect and Prospect. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... labour price index data for the September quarter and lending finance data for September. Secretary to the Treasury Dr Ken Henry addresses the National Press Club in Canberra. MasterCard releases its Worldwide Index of Consumer Purchasing. In company ...

End of the world

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... reporters yesterday that he thinks the sub-prime contagion has 12 months to two years left to run. No wonder Treasury chief Ken Henry has just taken off on five weeks annual leave to look after endangered wombats notwithstanding that a Daily Telegraph ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...