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Foreign MIS tax legislation delayed

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2012
... yesterday, Cormann said "Business cannot invest with confidence when the government clearly has no direction". Under the Labor government the rate was lowered from 30% to the current 7.5%. "For the past 18 months Australian fund managers have continuously ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... result, animosity, back-knifing, loathing, bitterness, hatred and behind the scenes plotting will continue within the Labor Party... and alas, policy paralysis and uncertainty for this land girth by sea. And we all know that uncertainty is no good. Tony ...

ALP leadership issues will delay FOFA: Chikarovski

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
... reports of a possible leadership challenge. "The next week or so is going to be an extraordinarily difficult one for the Labor party," Chikarovski said. "What that means for legislation affecting this industry is that it's not going to be the number ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2011
... were higher, with Rio Tinto up 22 cents at $66.54 and BHP Billiton up 51 cents at $37.16. Uranium miners were higher after Labor's national conference backed Prime Minister Julia Gillard's plan to remove the party platform's ban on uranium exports to ...

CHOICE, ISN hit back at associations aspersions

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 17 OCT 2011
... Australian's superannuation money in the hands of the union-controlled industry super funds for the benefit of the Labor Party," he said. Yet Mack asks how disclosing a bill to a client to pay for your services would kill off a small business. "This ...

IFM hits back at claims it plays politics with super fund money

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2011
... Industry superannuation funds, which have union appointees on their boards, are seen as having close links to the Labor Party. IFM, whose chairman is former-ACTU political heavyweight Garry Weaven, invests 36% of its $4.25 billion Australian infrastructure ...

Bank of Melbourne relaunches with plans for 90 new branches

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... financial planners but plans to grow this to 50. Traditional political party foes buried the hatchet for the launch with Labor's Federal Minister for Financial Services and Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten attending the ceremony at the Richmond branch ...

Minister faces down advisers over opt-in, risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUN 2011
... churn on customers," he said. "Maybe 15 per cent." One adviser asked how much money the industry funds channel to the Labor Party through the union movement. Minister Shorten told him he could look up political donations on the Australian Electoral Commission ...

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 ...

Record NSW election loss could slow federal reforms

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAR 2011
A record breaking 16.5 per cent swing last weekend against the NSW Labor Party has the potential to derail many of the Gillard federal government's reforms, pushing a nervous federal government to pull more of its punches on major changes to the financial ...