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Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... Argentina and Brazil have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies were only a few per cent, in the US they were in the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... comments that the Australian Government would look towards backing local candidates ahead of importing skills, Prime Minister John Howard said the skills shortage had arisen as a result of good management by the government, while the opposition said ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... Executive David Bell said that a failed bank would have to lose 70 per cent of assets before customers would lose any. Prime Minister John Howard has announced that the government intended to spend $10 billion in creating two new army battalions and ...

After failed IPO, Snowy Hydro still top rated

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2006
... Iemma Government wanted to sell SnowyHydro even though poor political management by the NSW Government forced the Prime Minister to scuttle the sale in June. "Such factors together mitigate its higher business risk compared to rated electric utilities ...

Keating and Sen Chapman to launch AFA conference

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2006
... and controversial Parliamentary Inquiry into the Structure of the Superannuation Industry, together with former Prime Minister Paul Keating, will headline the Australian Financial Advisers annual conference in October. The theme of this year's conference ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a range of measures aimed at easing the impact of the fuel crisis bought about by rising crude oil prices, tensions in the Middle East and the increasing demands by the industrial expansion in China and India. ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2006
... liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) which is estimated to cost about $1 billion a year. This follows the rejection by the Prime Minister of the idea to reduce the excise on fuel by 10c per litre, which would cost the nation about $2.5-3 billion a year. Part ...

ASFA appointee to focus on best practice

... board. Hall has also been a director responsible for economic and social policy advice in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet as well as being secretary of the ACT branch of the CPSU from 1989 to 1993.

Snowy Hydro not for sale

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2006
The Prime Minister has announced today that the plan to privatise the Snowy Hydro has been shelved amid massive public outrage. With the Commonwealth withdrawing its backing NSW Premier Morris Iemma said the deal was almost impossible to proceed with. ...

Call for personal tax cuts to plug company tax loophole

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 18 APR 2006
... marginal tax rate, though whether it goes into this budget is hard to tell. It seems as though the Treasurer and Prime Minister are luke warm on the prospect of further cuts for high income earners. "But ideally, if they got serious about stimulating ...