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Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
While we, Australians all, remain glued tracking the mounting cases of infection in Victoria - one that has prompted the New South Wales government to close its borders with its neighbour south of the Murray River for the first time since the Spanish ...

Investors should factor in climate risk: JANA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... uncertainty needs to be overcome," he said. A survey of JANA clients also demonstrated widespread dissatisfaction with Canberra, with the vast majority of investors and institutions wanting stronger government action on climate change and policy certainty. ...

Property yet to show COVID-19 pain

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... $602,293 over the quarter, with prices increasing in Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide but decreasing in Brisbane, Perth, Canberra, Hobart and Darwin," said Adrian Kelly, president of REIA. Kelly said the March quarterly change in median prices was the ...

FASEA boycott sparks in-fighting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... out that there are too many Associations (14 including accounting), and we are diluting our influence/credibility in Canberra if we make it 15." Johnston said the AIOFP suggested the UFAA should merge with it. "Unfortunately, they wanted to go it alone," ...

Chief economist update: Better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
" You're simply the best Better than all the rest Better than anyone Anyone I've ever met..." A great many, if not all Australians, would have had this Tina Turner classic playing in their heads listening to Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) governor ...

Chief economist update: Australia needs China more than it needs us

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2020
... serves me right, exports to China is worth around 1.4% of Australian GDP. If Australia- China trade stops completely, Canberra loses US$88 billion worth of exports to Beijing. China improves its trade balance as it stops imports worth US$58 billion from ...

SISFA relaunches membership to SMSF trustees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... needs of trustees without involving them in the discussion." SISFA said ordinary SMSF members need a louder voice in Canberra and greater support from the industry. Additionally, it said it will be offering SMSF members a new annual membership rate of ...

Former CBA executive nabs industry body lead role

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... sustainability; and six years as a director of corporate and public affairs at Woolworths Group. He also spent 10 years in Canberra working as a ministerial media adviser. This includes a period as a federal director of the National Party of Australia ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Forget Australia's simmering political and trade tension with China, there's one building right inside our very borders. Canberra's worried that Beijing's ban on beef imports, increased tariff on barley could extend to boycott of Australia's ...

Chief economist update: China's beef with Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... ban/boycott could expand to other commodity and services - education and tourism - exports should Beijing's beef with Canberra persist. Sadly, Australia would hurt more than it would hurt China. Data from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ...