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Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced that the 2020-21 Federal Budget will be handed down at 7:30pm on Tuesday 6 October 2020. The number of organisations and individuals…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said Australia will suffer a GDP contraction of 4.5 per cent, down from an April prediction of 6.7 per…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Federal Parliament resumed this week, with the Government progressing its financial services legislative agenda. Australia’s unemployment rate reached 7.1 per cent in May, with…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Federal Parliament returned this week and will sit again next week. National Cabinet met again today to discuss border closures. The World Bank has…
Focus on: listed entities
With federal and state governments progressively re-opening the Australian economy, the share market has responded positively having now risen 31.8 per cent off its low…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights Treasurer Josh Frydenberg confirmed Australia is in recession, with the first quarter of negative growth in nine years recorded in the March quarter. The…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights This week marked the one-year anniversary since the Morrison Government’s election victory. Prime Minister Scott Morrison penned an op-ed in The Daily Telegraph, calling…
Focus on: Commercial real estate
8 May 2020 There has been significant media attention on the long-term impacts of COVID-19 on retailers and shopping centre landlords, but there will likely…
Weekly Wrap Up
Highlights National Cabinet is meeting this morning and is expected to discuss a timetable for the easing of restrictions. Australia’s number of confirmed coronavirus cases…
Focus on: Foreign investment
Focus on: Foreign Investment 1 May 2020 Significant proposed foreign investment in Australia has long been subject to assessment to decide if it is contrary…