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New Zealand maintains pension age

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... other countries make it tougher to qualify for the pension. In an interview with Radio New Zealand, the leader of the Labour Party argued that if the country continues to contribute to the New Zealand Superannuation Fund sustainably, there is no need ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... with the Conservatives seen as being less tough on regulating the financial and energy sectors compared with the Labour party, which will remain as the main opposition party. "The Conservatives are seen as being more business friendly and more importantly ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... Britain's position within it [EU] and to hold that in-out referendum guaranteed before the end of 2017." Opposition Labour Party leader Ed Miliband won't Brexit but proposes to increase the top income tax rate to 50% plus a levy on bankers' bonuses ...

Once more from the top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... that it isn't the man they like but more the end of the forever lingering uncertainty in the life of the Australian Labour Party...at least for now...and the end of policy paralysis. Then again, fresh uncertainties have emerged as a result of this coup. ...

Buy a toaster

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAR 2011
... there'll be social unrest?); Ireland's main opposition party Fine Gael won the elections and is in talks with the Labour Party to form the new government - both want to rescind the previous government's bail out deal; and, in the US overnight reports ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... Pick up any local daily or click on a mouse and you'll read about the hows, whys, and wherefores of the Australian Labour Party's narrative splattered on the printed and electronic pages. Now the speculation starts. Well...it already did yesterday -- ...

La de da de da

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAR 2010
... against an already weakened euro. The trigger? A YouGov Plc opinion poll indicating that while Gordon Brown's ruling Labour Party would win the 10 June elections, neither Labour nor the Conservatives would gain majority seats in Parliament. What does ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
... real terms over the last decade as a proportion of GDP and is now at levels comparable with France and Britain. The Labour party has noted that Australia is ranked 18th in an OECD list of spending on education and that spending on early childhood education ...

Senator Sherry attacks Liberals' super policies at ASFA meeting

John Fernando The Australian Labour Party (ALP) has attacked the federal government's policy of giving superannuation tax breaks to high income earners and not to the rest of the Australian workforce. ALP Senator Nick Sherry, shadow minister for retirement ...
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