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Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... you've taken Economics 101 you know that is the most stupid thing you can possibly do." Pointing to the UK's coalition government, which has slashed government spending through cuts to public-sector employment and restructuring pensions, Custard commented ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 FEB 2012
... default that could send shockwaves round the global economy. The leaders of the parties backing Greece's coalition government, which is headed by Prime Minister Lucas Papademos, were to hold a second day of emergency talks over austerity measures that ...

Union members an industry fund minority

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
... lower. The low union membership ratios present significant challenges for industry funds should a future coalition government bring superannuation governance more into line with public companies, notwithstanding retail funds would also be confronted ...

Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... Government started the service a year ago to solve the red tape created for small business by the former Coalition Government's introduction of superannuation choice of fund in 2005. Meanwhile minister for small business Senator Nick Sherry said, "The ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... that even the Australian dollar was unimpressed by. It hardly moved up or down. What do you expect? It's a Coalition Government after all. Labor knows to tread carefully, not to agitate its partners-in-power lest all the fiddling it's done to get the ...

No super profits tax for banks: Coalition

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... holders in particular will bear the brunt of the tax. Instead, he claims the government should do what the Coalition government has done in the past, which is to apply pressure on banks to make credit more affordable and accessible. "It's one of the ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Opposition's Christmas wish. Doing nothing to preserve the Holy Grail that is the budget surplus ensures this. The Coalition Government deserves to be congratulated over their accumulation of surpluses when they ruled the roost. They saved for a rainy ...

Kenya budgets right for investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 AUG 2008
There are more winners than losers in the first Budget announced since the formation of Kenya's first coalition government, with local and foreign investors first in line to benefit. The group said in a report that household consumers will benefit from ...

We just don't organise anymore

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2008
... comfortable the federal government will look after them. Reinforcing this, during the reign of the previous Coalition government the union membership fall slowed and almost began to arguably stabilise at least until 2006 when the WorkChoices public relations ...

BCA call to freeze Budget gets cold shoulder

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... chief executive. Showing just how quickly real politik shows no loyalty, Gailey's repudiation of the previous Coalition government's fiscal strategy was quickly rejected by Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull. "[The BCA] is speaking on behalf of its own ...