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Senate calls to overhaul super fund boards

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2025
... "These recommendations address the significant issues that have plagued Cbus and other super funds in recent months, on which Labor has been silent." One of the main recommendations was for superannuation trustee boards to be comprised mostly of independent ...

Australians don't trust politicians with their super: FSC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2025
... the opposition's commitment to protect retirement savings from "unfair new taxes." FSC chief executive Blake Briggs said Labor's perseverance in raising taxes is eroding Australian's trust in the government on the eve of the federal election. He called ...

One more vote needed for $3m super tax

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2025
... Senators (25) and the Greens (11)," Ali explained. "The government was confident of securing the votes of former Greens and Labor members Lidia Thorpe and Fatima Payman, meaning they only needed one more crossbencher to succeed." Ali remains confident ...

Financial services minister Stephen Jones to retire from politics

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Labor frontbencher, assistant treasurer and minister for financial services Stephen Jones is retiring from politics and will not contest the upcoming federal election. Jones spent 15 years as the member for Whitlam - covering Illawarra and the Southern ...

FOMC holds rates as Chalmers boasts 'our inflation is lower'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
Treasurer Jim Chalmers has boasted about Labor's policies after the latest CPI reading from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported underlying inflation was now at its lowest point in three years. "Our headline inflation is now lower than ...

Coalition members call for superannuation guarantee reform

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... nature of contributions that prevent them from having a say in how their money is used until they reach 65 years of age. Labor minister for employment and workplace relations Murray Watt labelled the statements by the Coalition members as "astonishing," ...

Productivity slump threatens asset returns: Shane Oliver

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2024
The supply-side productivity-enhancing reforms of the Hawke/Keating Labor government, continued by Howard/Costello, have since stalled, leading to a decline in productivity - a key catalyst in the deterioration of living standards, according to AMP ...

$3m super tax faces axe, pushed to 2025

MATTHEW WAI  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2024
... services Nicholas Ali told Financial Standard that the election result will influence the outcome. "There is every chance the Labor government will either lose the next federal election, in which case, the Division 296 Bill is dead, as the Coalition ...

$3m super tax faces uncertain future

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2024
... unpopular legislative piece may be delayed until after the federal election," he said. "And there is every chance the Australian Labor Party may lose, given the government's unpopularity and the fact incumbents worldwide have been punished by their constituents. ...

Swan tells Bragg he won't front parliament

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 NOV 2024
... the Senate will have to hear from Swan." Bragg has been questioning the relationship between Swan and Chalmers since the Labor government won the Federal election in 2022.