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Ways to go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUL 2009
"The government is not contemplating another round of cash payments," Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan told the Australian Broadcasting Corp. (ABC) early this week. This could be interpreted as either the Australian Government does not want to ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... fund, was inline to become "the guardian" of the $58 billion fund. Rumours became so widespread that current Treasurer Wayne Swan was forced to explicitly deny the claims. "I have certainly no plans, or the government has no plans to appoint Mr Costello ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), said by the time workers reach 65 years they are already physically "broken". Treasurer Wayne Swan said the government is being forced to act due to increasing pensions costs and workers now normally surviving many decades ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... industry increasingly knows its place in the political landscape. Driving the mooted reaction is how kind the Treasurer Wayne Swan was to the superannuation industry which was quietly fearing a back lash against the high cost of the tax concessions that ...

Goldilocks Budget 2009

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... Federal Budgets handed down - especially towards the second half of the Howard Government and into now Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan's first - provided dwindling interest among Australians. And this is mainly, how much taxes would be cut, how much benefits ...

Budget me a recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2009
... taxes for those earning ?100,000 and up next year. Chances are Australia's budget would be the same. Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has already prepped the populace, warning that the budget would be 'hard' and 'unpopular' when he releases it on the 12th ...

Budget deficit squeezes pension promises

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
... contributions deductibility. The biggest fear was that the government would wipe out dividend imputation, but Treasurer Wayne Swan this week dismissed this concern. Taxation expenditures are estimated by Treasury to amount to $26 billion, or 69 per cent ...

IMF and Swan riding on doom

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
... accomplish? I am talking, of course, about the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and our very own Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan. What do they have in common? Both still have not learned their lessons. Both want more pain. Let's take that international ...

Pocketing the change

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2009
... people think the banks can be bastards. And the challenge I am setting for the NAB is to lift our game." Treasurer Wayne Swan this morning saying banks need a "kick up the bum" however suggests no one in the banking industry took the speech too seriously. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... futures contract on the Sydney Futures Exchange was down 163 points at 3,235. In news this Thursday, federal treasurer Wayne Swan addresses the Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce in Sydney. In Melbourne, Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ...