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Australia progresses climate transition disclosures, planning

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUN 2025
... policy for reducing emissions among large industrial facilities. The government's Powering Australia also aims to create jobs, reduce pressure on energy bills, and lower emissions by boosting renewable energy. The study also found that real-economy decarbonisation ...

Middle Australia on track for 'comfortable retirement': ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
... retirement savings of everyday Australians, takes pressure off the taxpayer-funded pension, invests capital to grow Australian jobs and companies and - most importantly of all - gives millions of Australians a better life at retirement," SMC chief executive ...

Government to convene a productivity roundtable

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2025
... from the business community, union movement, and civil society in what will be a "more streamlined dialogue" than the 2022 Jobs and Skills Summit, with a "more targeted set of issues." "We want to build the broadest possible base of support for further ...

ASIC shrinks IPO timetable to boost listings

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2025
... for companies should help deliver more IPOs, which means more investment opportunities so companies can expand, increase jobs and ultimately economic growth." Longo lamented IPO activities have been sluggish over the past decade but remained hopeful ...

Stakeholders ask ASIC for tougher private markets regulation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... markets to thrive and flourish - together, they drive more investment, more opportunities for companies to grow, and more jobs for Australians," ASIC chair Joe Longo said. "I was encouraged by the breadth and richness of the responses we received, which ...

Cost-of-living, unaffordable advice fuels financial stress: Surveys

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2025
... reduce extremely high levels of financial stress amongst people with the least," she said. "The priority now should be to grow jobs and the incomes of people struggling after a decade of stagnation in living standards. Low unemployment is an opportunity ...

Cbus increases insurance premiums

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAY 2025
... death cover rise $0.10 to $2.20 and TPD up $0.15 to $3.04. The changes are slightly less for those who work in non-manual jobs. For a member aged 25 to 34, death cover will rise by $0.03 to $0.63 per week and TPD will be up $0.04 to $0.75. Members aged ...

Australia tops list for financial services job growth

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2025
... upswing in professional job vacancies, led by the financial services sector in March, according to the Robert Walters Global Jobs Index. The research found that professional white-collar vacancies in financial services in Australia jumped by 34% compared ...

Coalition's super on PPL plan 'deeply worrying'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2025
... tried to understand working women or cared about what support families need to be able to run their lives, and to hold down jobs - because if they did, making it harder to get childcare would not be the solution". "Neither is taking paid super off paid ...

Work from home saves employees $5308

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2025
... previously faced barriers to on-site work are more likely to have a job now because they can work from home." Australia's jobs market has been surprisingly strong since the pandemic, driven by factors including worker shortages, cost-of-living pressures ...
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