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Chief economist update: Stop right now, thank you very much

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2020
... prompting NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian to issue restrictions on pubs and clubs. It has also prompted the state of Queensland to shut its borders to 77 Sydney suburbs and South Australia to defer its 20 July planned border opening with NSW and the ACT. ...

Chief economist update: Flattening the rebound

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2020
... infections there has forced the state government to announce new restrictions on pubs and clubs. It has also prompted Queensland to shut its borders to 77 Sydney suburbs and South Australia to defer its 20 July planned border opening with NSW and the ...

QIC appoints general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
The Queensland-headquartered asset manager has appointed a general manager for capital solutions, and an investment director in its state investments team. Katrina King moved into the role of general manager, capital solutions, reporting to QIC's ...

Chief economist update: We're all Victorians now

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2020
... the coronavirus' second coming to Australia's second biggest state -- Victoria -- that forced the state's government to re-impose a lockdown on the 8th of July while, almost at the same time, its neighbouring states closed its borders to ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's Cinderella moment

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2020
... reported virus infections in the Australian Capital Territory (ACT), the Northern Territory (NT), South Australia (SA) and Queensland (QLD) over the past 24 hours, but the one reported case in Western Australia (WA), five cases in New South Wales (NSW) ...

Chief economist update: Honey, COVID-19 got me sacked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... served as a reminder the pandemic was "far from over". "Since Monday, New South Wales has recorded nine new cases, and Queensland and Western Australia have both confirmed one new case each." No prizes for guessing, but if this trend continues (after ...

Labor calls for end to war on super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2020
... actions of industry fund Rest, whose $500 million commitment to new agricultural investments in New South Wales and Queensland address the party's long-held concerns about the foreign ownership of Australia's farms. "Here we have the opposite ...

Rest pays out $1bn, calls for policy certainty

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... property, Doyle said: "We have $350 million invested in 99,000 hectares of rain-fed cropping farms in Victoria, NSW, Queensland and WA, and are looking to commit a further $500 million to expand our agriculture portfolio during the next five years." ...

Chief economist update: Border brawl

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... minimal or no new cases of infections in recent weeks -- South Australia, Western Australia and Northern Territory and Queensland - want to keep their borders shuttered; those with the most number of infections - New South Wales and Victoria - did not ...

Fund pulls mandate, alters pandemic definition

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2020
... pandemic illness exclusion will no longer apply to members with default cover as a result of working with the Queensland Government or a default employer who have applied within the first 120 days of starting work with the Queensland Government or a ...