Peter Martin

Peter Martin

High earners don't realise own wealth, study finds

money

Peter Martin Australia's high earners are surprisingly magnanimous when it comes to tax. Many think the rich should pay more. They just don't think that applies to them.

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Peter Martin

Labor finally sights the super monster

GENERIC superannuation

Peter Martin The select few Australians earning more than $290,000 per annum - a mere 1 per cent of the workforce - rake in an astounding $2 billion in superannuation tax concessions between them, according to...

Peter Martin

How Canberra got diddled

resources - coal mining

Peter Martin Gathered on one side of the cabinet table were the newly-installed Prime Minister Julia Gillard, her Treasurer Wayne Swan and her Resources Minister Martin Ferguson.

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Peter Martin

Swan empties bag of tricks to save his skinny surplus

Peter Martin

Peter Martin THE government needs export prices to stop falling if it is to have any hope of painlessly delivering its promised budget surplus.