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Superannuation tax concessions unsustainable: Bowen

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
... popular but it was a better alternative to the coalition's decision to leave super alone. In a recent radio interview with ABC, Bowen labeled current superannuation tax concessions "unsustainable" and that Labor's response to the 2015 budget was "being ...

Hockey defends budget backflip

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... budget and this year we have started to implement it. We have faced increasingly hard headwinds," he admitted. Grilled by ABC journalist Leigh Sales about "having one policy and replacing it with another," Hockey argued that the previous Labor government ...

Opposition welcomes SME package, slams Google tax

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... has branded the so-called crack-down on multi-nationals "a cop out". "We welcome the small business package," he told the ABC's Leigh Sales. "We support the lower corporate tax rate. Separate to those small business measures there are some revenue measures ...

Falling cash rate puts gold in 'sweet spot'

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... fallen below 2%. "Low interest rate environments like the one Australia is experiencing are typically the sweet spot for gold," ABC Bullion chief economist Jordan Eliseo said. The World Gold Council revealed that in 2014 central bank gold purchases hit ...

$1m in super not enough: Cooper

MARK SMITH AND AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... really just to demonstrate... how much it would cost hypothetically to buy an age pension for the rest of your life," he told ABC Radio on Monday. If the bond rate was back to a pre-2013, 20-year average of 6% it would bring that million dollar figure ...

Turnbull on super and housing debate: "a thoroughly bad idea"

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... people on lower incomes when taken as a whole". Hockey responded to Turnbull's comments on housing and superannuation at the ABC Lateline program: "We wanted a debate about this. There's a difference of views, of course there is," he said. He acknowledged ...

Oil slide, CEO pay and that "income recession"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2014
... "Banking giant Westpac is preparing to shed more than 200 jobs by closing call centres in Queensland and Western Australia." (abc.net.au, 1 Oct 2014). "Westpac to send 83 jobs to India in cost-cutting program" (The Australian, 18 Oct 2013) The more difficult ...

Cormann to keep up the FoFA fight

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... Financial Advice (FoFA) reforms despite last night's crushing defeat in the Senate. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann told ABC Radio this morning that the government had until 30 June 2015 to pursue its controversial financial advice reforms. "We have ...

CBA appoints litigators as customer advocates

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2014
... appear in front of the Scrutiny of Financial Advice inquiry, conducted by the Senate Economics Committee. In an interview on ABC Radio, the Committee's chair Sam Dastyari was asked if CBA had refused the request for Turner to appear, and offered Narev's ...

Abbott's SG claim incorrect, survey finds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 SEP 2014
... do, not what they have actually done in the past. Following the announcement of the SG freeze last week, Tony Abbott told ABC's 7.30: "The SG levy comes out of workers' pockets, so by delaying the increase to that levy, we actually keep more money in ...