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Oxfam calls for net wealth tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 19 JAN 2026
... on Australia's billionaires last year could have raised $17.4 billion, which it said could have helped deliver cheap childcare for all families, extend energy bill relief for another two years and increase the humanitarian budget almost seven times over. ...

Government reviewing $3m super tax

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... priority was student debt relief, protecting penalty rates, making medicines cheaper, making it easier to crack down on childcare centres which aren't up to scratch. Those have been our legislative priorities in the first couple of weeks of the parliament," ...

Removing CGT breaks could boost budget by $22.7bn: Report

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2025
... proportionate to increased wealth. "Everywhere, people are feeling the squeeze from rising costs in housing, healthcare, childcare and transport. Yet while households struggle, our tax system allows unbridled wealth growth at the top and starves the ...

Female fund managers' triumphant decade: Report

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2025
... potential factors for the substantial number attributed to more inclusive working policies, such as the availability of childcare, in these jurisdictions. Meanwhile, asset management across Australia and New Zealand remains a persistently male-dominant ...

Vision Super divests G8 Education over abuse charges

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2025
... employee of G8 Education was charged with more than 70 child sex abuse offences allegedly involving eight children at a childcare centre in Melbourne. In the weeks since, the share price of the childcare operator has fallen more than 20%. The fund said ...

'We're proceeding' with Div 296: Chalmers

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 JUL 2025
... priority was student debt relief, protecting penalty rates, making medicines cheaper, making it easier to crack down on childcare centres which aren't up to scratch. Those have been our legislative priorities in the first couple of weeks of the parliament," ...

Analyst promotions: Frontier, Fidelity, ART

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2025
... experience in the property sector and joins Frontier from PPC Urban, where she carried out strategic research into national childcare developments and conducted population forecasting and demand modelling to support site acquisition. Her work also involved ...

New ACCC chief named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2025
... oversight of the ACCC's work across telecommunications, rail, ports, airports, electricity and gas as well as the 2023 Childcare Inquiry. Proudfoot was appointed executive general manager of the ACCC's National Anti-Scam Centre in August 2024 and has ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... nurses, midwives and social workers over the next four years. The Coalition also plans to restore the activity test on childcare to save $420 million over the forward estimates, but the ACTU said it would make it much harder for women to get enough guaranteed ...

Work from home saves employees $5308

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... surprisingly strong since the pandemic, driven by factors including worker shortages, cost-of-living pressures, changes to childcare subsidies, as well as working from home. Brooks said more than one-third of Australians still regularly work from home ...
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