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Policy war erupts over super clearing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2011
... payments would cost four times as much for about $64 million per year. "Over 99 per cent of Australian businesses have rejected Labor's failed Medicare Superannuation Clearing House, which costs Australian taxpayers $177 for every single transaction ...

Govt to refund super tax for 3.5 million

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... Future Tax System (AFTS) Report that said superannuation tax concessions should be distributed more equitably. "The Gillard Labor Government firmly believes that Australian workers, whatever their income, deserve just rewards and financial security in ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2011
... worse-than-expected indicators on the health of the US economic recovery. Inflation reached an annualised 3.6 per cent in May, the Labor Department said, indicating that rising prices threaten to chew away at consumers' earnings. Meanwhile a Federal ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... Singapore ended down 1.02 per cent, by 31.94 points, at 3,113.73. US jobs data released Friday sent US stocks down as the Labor Department reported that the economy added a paltry 54,000 jobs in May. The Japanese market was dragged by Tokyo Electric ...

U-G-L-Y

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... report. So did Japan and Australia. Sorry bro' no can do this too. It wouldn't wash because the commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics left no room for spins when he stated, "We found no clear impact of the disasters on the national employment ...

Oakeshott won't back FOFA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... minister Senator Mathias Cormann has already jumped on Oakeshott's comments. "The Coalition has said from the outset that Labor's proposal to force people to keep re-signing contracts with their financial advisers was bad policy which would add unnecessary ...

Advisers aim for independents over FOFA

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... told the crowd that after 1 July the shift of power in the Government would change. The Senate would move from Coalition to Labor control with the support of the Greens, he said. But the House of Representatives would be in the hands of the independents. ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... bailout. Eurozone and European Union finance ministers are expected to discuss Greece at meetings on Monday and Tuesday. The Labor Department reported its consumer price index rose a seasonally adjusted 0.4 per cent in April, lifted by surging gasoline ...

Budget bore

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Australian dollar was unimpressed by. It hardly moved up or down. What do you expect? It's a Coalition Government after all. Labor knows to tread carefully, not to agitate its partners-in-power lest all the fiddling it's done to get the Budget to show ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... NEW YORK - The biggest corporate hiring spree in five years ended a weeklong slide in the US stock market on Friday. The Labor Department reported private employers hired 268,000 people last month, the most since February 2006. Taking into account job ...