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Wealth levels triple for middle Australia: SMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2026
A new report by the Super Members Council (SMC) found wealth levels for middle Australia have tripled in the past 20 years for recent retirees, with superannuation the key driver of strong growth. The report highlighted the role Australia's super system ...

Chalmers says tax reform coming, but offers no detail

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2025
... worker got a tax cut, including young people. Making sure that people on low and middle incomes got a fair go in middle Australia. That's a big priority," he said. "But, really, one of the defining outcomes of this Economic Reform Roundtable was building ...

Middle Australia on track for 'comfortable retirement': ASFA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2025
Thanks to a subtle shift in superannuation policy, a 30-year-old Australian earning the median wage is, for the first time, on the path to achieve a comfortable retirement, according to the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA). ASFA ...

Budget deficit to balloon to $42.1bn

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2025
... against inflation. How we keep rebuilding living standards. And how we maximise our national advantages to benefit middle Australia. "The plan at the core of this Budget is about more than putting the worst behind us. It's about seizing the best ...

Budget 2024: Stage 3 tax cuts to take effect July 1

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... Treasurer Jim Chalmers said the average benefit would be around $1888 a year, or $36 a week. "Our new tax cuts for middle Australia are the biggest part of the cost of living relief in this Budget. From July 1, all 13.6 million taxpayers will get a tax ...

Albanese set to overhaul Stage 3 tax cuts

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
... about justifying the changes in another radio interview with KIIS 106.5 to help lower and middle-income earners. "Middle Australia particularly, is doing it really tough. People have a mortgage, so we're looking at ways in which we can provide assistance ...

Will HNW firms re-enter retail advice?

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2023
... personalisation and bespoke offerings, while at the opposite end there is the need to provide suitable services for middle Australia. "That creates challenges for asset managers too. Are we [providing] really institutional-grade bespoke illiquid solutions ...

Bridges can meet advice affordability gap: Mota

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 24 FEB 2023
... profitability of advice is improving as expected," he said. "We think Bridges can become a leading advice proposition for middle Australia and that continues to be a work in progress," he said. Mota expects the integration will take another 12 months. ...

Increasing SG costly for middle Australia: Grattan

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... systems. "We need to restore appropriate savings incentives so that that super can do what it was designed to do for middle Australia, which is to supplement the Age Pension," she said. Wages have been flat for some time and there have been no SG increases ...

Industry responds to election outcome

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2019
... referred to Morrison's victory as "revenge of the Howard battlers" and said the Prime Minister's campaign "exploited middle Australia's fears about Labor's big taxing and far-reaching reform agenda." "Electoral results suggest the so-called 'Howard battlers' ...
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