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ATO launches auditor software

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... is Microsoft Windows, Macintosh and Linux system compliant. The launch of this software follows a push from the Liberal Party and the SMSF Professionals Associations of Australia (SPAA) for accredited SMSF auditors. Chris Pearce, shadow minister for ...

AustEthical director elected MLA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... ACT Legislative Assembly. The ACT election was held last on 18th November but with neither the Labor Party or the Liberal Party winning a majority of seats, Le Couteur and her three fellow MLA-elect Greens colleagues are now being courted to see which ...

Coalition doesn't support higher SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
Forcing people to put more money into superannuation is not something that sits easily with the Liberal Party's philosophy of freedom of choice, said Shadow Treasurer, Malcolm Turnbull. Speaking at yesterday's Association of Financial Advisers (AFA) ...

Singapore laybys Australia

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... commercial assets to the value of A$22.8 billion. Two months later, Stephen Mayne, a former adviser to Jeff Kennett, the Liberal Party premier of Victoria in the early 1990s, reported in The Age, that Singapore's commercial footprint in Australia was ...

Parl committee to review entire super industry

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2006
... committee is on a political mission. The committee is likely to become controversial because it is being chaired by the Liberal Party's Senator Grant Chapman, who in the past has been a major critic of industry funds. According to the committee's official ...

Our master is the government: FF boss

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 MAY 2006
... he wants it. Murray's comments relating to the Future Fund and SnowyHydro come in response to the proposal by NSW Liberal Party Senator Bill Heffernan that the Fund be used to house the Government's 13 per cent shareholding of SnowyHydro, and possibly ...

Government moves to dampen super tax cut heat

... push for government to cut the super contributions tax. Minchin, who made the comments during a speech to the Young Liberal Party, called for cuts to the "Keating tax", which could add an extra $30 per person to superannuation savings, he said. "I suggested ...

Labor's super plans costly, complex and a disincentive: Liberals

The Liberal Party has attacked Labor's plans to phase out superannuation contributions tax for some people as "extraordinarily complex and costly." Assistant Treasurer, Mal Brough, said yesterday that Labor's plan to phase out the contributions tax ...

Queensland government criticised over moves to stop choice

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2005
... federal superannuation changes allowing workers their own choice of fund manager was a backward step, the state Liberal Party said. Last week, the Queensland Labor government introduced amendments to the Industrial Relations Act that will remove the ...

Elliott appeal dismissed

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 8 APR 2004
... reducing his ban as a company director from 10 to seven years. Lawyers for Elliott won a 21-day stay while the former Liberal Party and Carlton Football Club president considers whether to appeal against the latest decision. Elliott is also facing bankruptcy ...