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Australia's budget position ranks second among G20 nations

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2024
... entitlement reforms in advanced economies with aging populations and improving the targeting and efficiency of social safety nets to support the most vulnerable populations."

Income inequality elevated, spikes: Oxfam

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 APR 2024
... massive debt and interest repayments divert resources from crucial areas like public education, healthcare, and social safety nets, threatening to unravel hard-won development gains. Oxfam's analysis of the World Bank's International Development Association ...

COVID not only health issue on Budget radar

TOM WATSON  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
... (PBS), with treatments for bowel cancer, breast cancer and cystic fibrosis among the new listings on the PBS. The PBS safety nets for both concessional patients and general patients will also be reduced from July 1 of this year - a decision which the ...

Accessing super cements inequality: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... findings illustrating harm caused by the early release of super program. The Brotherhood of St Lawrence Shocks and Safety Nets report found that financial wellbeing decreased for low-income earners during the pandemic. Many people aged over 45, disability ...

Financial literacy the bridge for income protection gap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 NOV 2017
... financially literate, least likely to have protective mechanisms in place and had the greatest trust in government safety nets. Separately, Zurich has announced the appointment of a new state manager for Victoria and Tasmania. Hamish MacLean has joined ...

Budget speech 2014 -15

... never been free to taxpayers so patients are being asked to make a modest contribution towards their cost. Of course safety nets are important, so we are simplifying the Medicare Safety Net with lower thresholds for most people, and we have safety net ...

Singapore lifts CPF rates

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2014
... Prime Minister and Finance Minister Tharman Shanmugaratnam said in his budget speech: "We are strengthening social safety nets, and mitigating inequalities."

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... Deleveraging will mean years of slowed growth coupled with structurally higher unemployment rates, lower provision of safety nets and welfare entitlements and higher taxes, according to Curt Custard, which will not be popular with the electorate. The ...

Aussies fear online fin services

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
... services analyst Petter Ingemarsson, the issue boils down to "perceived security" rather than the actual security safety nets in place. "Many current security initiatives are as much intended for consumers to feel safe as for conferring meaningful real ...

Sherry overhauls award system

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2008
... Sherry is looking to modernise the country's award system, including superannuation, to boost Australians' financial safety nets. "The government believes workers should be protected in the workplace by a strong safety net which ensures their rights ...
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