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Wanted: $20bn electricity investor for NSW

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... an expected sale price of $20 billion to be presented to institutional investors. The agreement was reached after NSW Nationals MPs and MLAs were persuaded to support the proposal in return for the state's primary electricity supplier to regional NSW ...

Power sell off approved by NSW govt

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... split within the coalition forced Premier Mike Baird to exempt country-based Essential Energy from the sale, with the Nationals vehemently opposed to it being privatised. The Nationals also demanded a number of other guarantees surrounding the sell-off ...

Wake-up call for watchdog after inquiry

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2014
... the proposed changes will be broad. "The inquiry will help shake up ASIC," Greens' senator Peter Whish-Wilson said. Nationals' Senator John Williams said that ASIC should be able to "put a stop order on a financial planner or a liquidator when evidence ...

ASIC to scrutinise The New Daily

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2013
Confusion about the funding model of The New Daily has shown no sign of abating, after Nationals Senator John Williams requested the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) scrutinise The New Daily on the grounds that it is a bad investment. ...

CBA could face legal action over Operation Lantern

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 OCT 2013
... from Levitt, who would have been photographed with Fraser while hosting a Coalition campaign event that also attended Nationals' senator John Williams and a number of Coalition members, including former opposition leader, Kerry Chikarovski. Levitt claimed ...

Westpac and BT launch SIV service

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2013
... estimated to take between six and nine months to process. The vast majority of applications have been submitted by Chinese nationals.

Baker & McKenzie tells industry to prepare for SIV 'bonanza'

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... estimated to take between six and nine months to process. The vast majority of applications have been submitted by Chinese nationals. "We estimate there could be as many as 200-300 approved by Christmas," Fuggle told Financial Standard. Currently there ...

Senate to question ASIC over alleged RBA corruption

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2013
... over its failure to act on the alleged corruption within subsidiary companies of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). Nationals' senator John Williams, who called for a Senate inquiry into the regulator, told Financial Standard that "there is no doubt ...

ASIC, "twin peaks" model faces review

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... the long-running debate around the effectiveness of the current regulatory model for the financial services industry. Nationals Senator John Williams called for a Senate inquiry into the regulator, which received bipartisan support. At the same time ...

Hockey to head Treasury and Cormann Finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 16 SEP 2013