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Labor has a red letter day in Parliament: Senator Sherry

Superannuation portability, which the Government was attempting to pass through the Senate, has been disallowed in Parliament today. According to Senator Nick Sherry, the shadow minister for retirement incomes and savings, there had been a unanimous ...

Senate rejects super portability regulations

... superannuation portability regulations, designed to allow all fund members to consolidate accounts, were today rejected by the Senate. The Australian Democrats and Greens supported a Labor motion disallowing the regulations. Labor has argued for automatic ...

Democrats round on government portability regulations

... policy debate, the Australian Democrats have again attacked the government's superannuation portability regulations. The Senate Select Committee on Superannuation yesterday handed down its final report, and which was highly critical of the regulations ...

Senate Super Committee calls for rewrite of government portability regulations

Senator Nick Sherry, the shadow minister for retirement incomes and savings, has said that the Senate Super Committee has unanimously requested the Government rewrite its so-called portability regulations. "The portability regulations claim to allow ...

Senator Coonan reaffirms government's commitment to retirement savings

... of lower income earners. Today's announcement goes to show what can be achieved when parties work cooperatively in the senate to achieve outcomes on issues of growing importance to ordinary Australians." The maximum surcharge rate will be reduced from ...

Federal Government to stay out of Telstra share buyback

... returns to taxpayers, he said. Laws for the full sale of Telstra passed the lower house last month but are still to face a Senate vote, where the government needs the support of four independent and minor party MPs. -with AAP

Costello admits full Telstra sale faces long road through Senate

... Peter Costello admitted today it would be tough to pass legislation allowing the full sale of Telstra Corp through the Senate. The legislation passed through the House of Representatives last night. But Mr Costello admitted it would be harder to get ...

ASFA comments on IFSA policy statement

... large chunk of the population - the baby boomers - reaching retirement with inadequate resources." In a submission to the Senate Select Committee on Superannuation and Standards of Living in Retirement last year, ASFA identified a minimum retirement ...

Inaugural Inspector General of Taxation appointed for five-year term

... direct appreciation of business practice and government processes," Senator Coonan continued. Mr Vos has participated in Senate inquiries on tax matters and in consultative committees that played an important role in relation to the New Tax System. In ...

ASFA describes Coonan's actions as "high-handed"

... Assistant Treasurer, took the extraordinary step of gazetting regulations on portability in Parliament last night, as the Senate Select Committee conducts national hearings on this issue this week. ASFA said that despite the stated objective being to ...