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Frydenberg bets on infrastructure for recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
... billion for Victoria, including $528 million for upgrades to the Shepparton and Warrnambool rail lines; $1.3 billion for Queensland, including $750 million for the first stage of the Coomera Connector; $1.1 billion for Western Australia, including $227 ...

Industry fund adds to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
A $12 billion Queensland industry fund has appointed a new director to its board, as an employee director leaves. LGIAsuper is adding Greg Hallam, who was the chief executive of the Local Government Association of Queensland for 26 years. His directorship ...

Chief economist update: Dan defeats second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... they are safe and steady steps on Sunday [28 September]." The good news comes at the same time that the Queensland government announced that it will open its borders to parts of New South Wales. Eight weeks of being under house arrest in Melbourne - ...

Former QSuper chief joins NZ Super Fund board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... Family's Cambooya, member of the advisory board for the committee for Brisbane and a member of multiple committees at Queensland University of Technology. "The NZ Super Fund is projected to reach NZD70 billion of assets under management within the next ...

Chief economist update: COVID-19 cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... restrictions, and the country's other states to close their borders with Australia's second largest state. Queensland even went further by shutting its borders with New South Wales (NSW) and the Australian Capital Territory (ACT). The cycle hit ...

Mixed results at Bjelke-Peterson estate sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
A Lloyds auction of the estate of controversial former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson produced mixed results. One of the big ticket items was a piece of paraphernalia from 1969, when the astronauts who landed on the moon toured the world attending ...

AFP charges early release scammers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... payments totalling $113,500. As part of the investigation, search warrants were served at five addresses in South East Queensland in Morayfield, Worongary, Balmoral, Eagleby and Burpengary East. A number of electronic devices were seized which police ...

Chief economist update: Escape from Victoria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 AUG 2020
... of the year when many Victorians escape the winter chill for the warmer climate of its northern neighbour - notably, Queensland (where it's "beautiful one day, perfect the next")... and in the current setting, coronavirus-free. But unlike other winters' ...

Queenslanders drain super: ISA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... who have wiped out their super and will need to start again." ISA chief executive Bernie Dean said the numbers from Queensland are concerning and described the 145,000 wiping out their super as a "tragedy waiting to happen" for the state. "The only way ...

12 charged in $17m fraud

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... Australian Federal Police (AFP) investigators executed search warrants at 10 locations across Sydney, nine in south-east Queensland and two in the ACT in a "coordinated strike" against a transnational and serious organised criminal syndicate. It is alleged ...