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Industry responds to Dover shutdown

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... provide some sort of extension because one month is virtually unworkable," he said. "We're also trying to contact [Minister for Revenue and Financial Services] Kelly O'Dwyer's office to see if that's a possibility as well because we can't ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... than China, the EU or even Canada but Japan had rarely been on headlines in recent times. It's back again when Prime Minister Shinzo Abe went to Washington to meet with the US president about North Korea and trade. Early reports were encouraging with ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
Quitaly and Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's exit and the curious case of the US-North Korea summit have drowned China's modern version of the "Great Leap Forward". The first day of June marked when MSCI included Chinese A-shares into ...

Chief economist update: "Quitaly"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... for a "Madriddance". The reason, as Factset put it succinctly: "Italian president Matterella rejected populist finance minister choice and called on former IMF official Cottarelli to lead a technocrat government. However, unlikely to win vote of confidence ...

Government consults on super access for victims of crime

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... by criminals. To ensure superannuation accounts cannot be used as a safe haven by criminals to protect their assets, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer released two draft proposals around the use of super as compensation. The Government ...

New Government body to advance financial literacy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... Brown, both of which also sit on the board of the National Financial Literacy Strategy. Announcing the initiative today, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said: "This new body will be a game-changer, a lasting institution ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... government led by Giuseppe Conte. In Spain, the prospect of early elections - on calls for votes of no-confidence in Prime Minister Rajoy's government amidst graft on corruption - have taken Spain's IBEX index down 7.4% from the 2018 high recorded ...

Agriculture investment under parliament microscope

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... been a bugbear of the Coalition, with Barnaby Joyce previously making several comments during his time as Deputy Prime Minister encouraging super funds to invest. In 2015, corporate advisory firm BDO and The University of Queensland released a report ...

Amnesty granted to employers with unpaid SG

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... unacceptable, which is why the Turnbull Government is giving the ATO the tools it needs to enforce compliance going forward," Minister of revenue and financial services Kelly O'Dwyer said. It is a part of the Government's superannuation guarantee ...

Life insurers should fund medical rehabilitation: MLC

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... consumers different premiums based on their risk profiles; life insurers' premiums are not subject to approval by the Minister for Health; they are also not subject to oversight by the Department of Health and Private Health Insurance Ombudsman. ...