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Big spend on cost of living, defence

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... habitats were devastated by the fires of 2019 and 2020, and their populations have not recovered. Changes to paid parental leave The superannuation lobby did not get its wish for super to be paid on Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave, but the Treasurer ...

Budget aims to please women

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... health, safety and economic success. Most notably, the government has committed to modernising the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave scheme - which currently allows a mother and partner to take 10 weeks of paid leave each. Under the updated scheme, single ...

Excise tax, super top budget worries

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... that as this is a pre-election budget, while the Morrison government might not have the will to consider super on parental leave, it could become an election issue as groups, such as ISA continue lobbying. Holden adds: "I think it's popular with a certain ...

Childcare key to super gap

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2022
... That's because childcare costs gobble up any income from paid work and far too many mums don't get paid super on parental leave," ISA advocacy director Georgia Brumby said. "Making childcare more affordable will boost retirement savings, slash the gender ...

Action on super gap slow, small

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... Day 2022, Industry Super Australia asked why neither major political party is committing to mandating super on parental leave. ISA calculates that in total women lost $1.86 billion in super contributions since the Commonwealth Paid Parental Leave scheme ...

Super baby bonus could end inequality

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
A baby bonus paid into the superannuation accounts of women who go on parental leave combined with paying super during their time off could address the significant gap between the retirement savings of men and women. According to numbers from the Association ...

$450 super threshold scrapped

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2022
... to poverty as they age," she said. The next step is to further lobby for SG contributions to continue while on parental leave. The removal of the threshold was contained in Treasury Laws Amendment (Enhancing Superannuation Outcomes For Australians and ...

Super baby bonus proposed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2022
... workforce to have children." ASFA added that the super baby bonus would supplement proposals to pay SG on paid parental leave, as well as the removal of the $450 income threshold. Super fund Rest and industry body Women in Super have both urged the government ...

AFA opposes clean record requirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... could possibly unfairly impact advisers who have taken extended periods of leave within that timeframe, such as parental leave, or those who have taken a different role within the financial advice space. Such a requirement would be to the detriment of ...

ISA releases pre-election wish list

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 14 DEC 2021
... commitments include: a mandate that employers pay their employees super with wages; paying super with the Commonwealth Parental Leave Pay Scheme; a review of the distribution of tax concessions; expanding the APRA performance tests to include 10 years ...

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