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Future Fund not for sale: Wong

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 12 SEP 2011
... billion in 2012/13 - the same year the government was forecasting a $3.5 billion surplus. This morning Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann said a "secret plan" had been revealed during a Senate Estimates hearing when questioning Finance Department ...

Govt claims MRRT as super victory

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
... MRRT and therefore increase the super guarantee," he said in an email. But Senator Mathias Cormann, Shadow Assistant Treasurer, said the increase in compulsory super would be paid for by workers and business - not by the mining tax, and to suggest otherwise ...

Future Fund chair back for a year, two new board members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... looked for someone else. Wayne Swan's office did not comment other than to refer to the press release. Shadow Assistant Treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann weighed in saying the Government decision was the worst of both worlds. "It's indecisive. The Future ...

Super on table for October tax review

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
... earners who get little or no concession on their compulsory super," he said. But Senator Mathias Cormann, Shadow Assistant Treasurer, told Financial Standard he did not believe the Government would implement any of the superannuation reforms by then. ...

Super cap breach stings 65,000

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... tax on their retirement funds, according to Government figures. In a response to a Senate question by Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Corman, Federal Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten disclosed the dramatic increase in numbers during the 2009-10 financial ...

Opposition slams opt-in policy

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Shadow Assistant Treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann has described the government's proposed opt-in policy as 'fundamentally flawed'. Speaking to delegates on the final day of the SPAA conference in Brisbane, Cormann said that the opposition does not ...

Coalition gives qualified support to reforms

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... power under the hung parliament. In response to the reforms unveiled by the Government yesterday, the Shadow Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann said in a statement that the Coalition would support any changes that make the superannuation system more ...

Coalition still unconvinced on 12 pc SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
Coalition superannuation spokesperson and shadow assistant treasurer Senator Mathias Cormann has given the strongest signal yet that the opposition is unlikely to support lifting SG to 12 per cent. Senator Cormann said Bill Shorten, the Assistant Treasurer ...

Political heat rising on ASX takeover

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2010
... stage," a spokesperson from Treasurer Wayne Swan's office said. Meanwhile, Senator Mathias Cormann, Shadow Assistant Treasurer and the coalition's spokesperson on financial services told Financial Standard that the deal requires careful consideration. ...

WA senator appointed super shadow minister

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... Hartsuyker becomes shadow minister for regional communications. Senator Cormann has also been appointed shadow assistant treasurer. Meanwhile, Hartsuyker has been appointed shadow minister for regional communications, youth and sport. Senator Cormann ...