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Infrastructure receives $75 billion boost

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... million passengers each year. Work will commence in late 2018 and airport operations will begin by 2026, creating some 20,000 jobs. About $2.9 billion was allocated to build Western Sydney, with an additional $1.5 billion in funding and a $2 billion ...

Terrible tax policies of the last 25 years

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... there is no evidence at all to support the notion that preferentially taxing small businesses will do anything to boost "jobs and growth". "Over the five years to June 2015, small businesses (those with fewer than 20 employees) employed just under 45% ...

Australian economy proceeding according to projections

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... highest level since September 2010. Elevated business confidence and conditions are showing up in rising advertisements for jobs. The ANZ reported a 1.4% increase in job ads in April following a 0.8% rise in the previous month. This took the annual rate ...

The romantic side of life insurance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... of life. "Advisers have told us how it's given them a whole new means of communicating with clients which has made their jobs a lot easier, and it's so eye-catching that it's really drawn people in and driven them to find out what it's all about," she ...

Treasurer opens the way for increased infrastructure spending

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... investment and for our businesses to remain competitive," Morrison said. "Failure to maintain our tax competitiveness will cost jobs and see investment go offshore. While there are those who believe Australia cannot afford to make our business taxes ...

Unconscionable super cross-selling will continue: ISA

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
... welcomed most of the recommendations, but said the review limited itself to examining the bottom three tiers of retail banking jobs and did not provide remuneration details for any staff above the branch manager level. FSU national secretary Julia Angrisano ...

Robotic stock picking: the future is now

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2017
... wider industry trend and it may not be long before we see other key players also taking the road less travelled and aligning jobs with robots. Frontier Advisers' senior consultant Sarkis Tepeli says that while the interest in this arena from the funds ...

Stone and Chalk lends voice to start-ups by women

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 13 APR 2017
... wisdom that can only come from someone who has met so many successful entrepeneurs, she advised those unhappy with their jobs: "There's so much funding available for good businesses that you really don't have to put up with crap." But there's hard work ...

Of war, rate hikes and balance sheets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... showed employment grew by just 98,000 in March. This is much less than market expectations for a 180K gain and is the lowest jobs addition since May last year. However, this could be explained by Hurricane Stella - the category storm that hit the Northeast ...

Too much ado about Fed reinvesting nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
... hired 263K workers in March on top of the 245K added in the previous month. This is the biggest increase in private sector jobs since December 2014 and is sharply higher than market expectations for a 187K gain. Two PM tantrum. And then the clock struck ...