New Housing Minister Bill Marmion has shocked the property market by saying he wants to flood WA with housing lots to cut home prices. In a speech to Parliament that has set alarm bells ringing throughout the real estate industry, Mr Marmion said the Barnett Government’s aim was to “bring house prices down”. “The Department [...]
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Small business and general business tax break ends 31st December 2009
Posted in Taxation, tagged 31 December 2009., 50% tax deduction, additional tax deduction, announced, assets, ‘business tax break’, ‘investment allowance’, break, budget, businesses, challenges, claim, economic downturn., eligible, eligible assets, extended, general business, government, May, money, Small Business, spend, tax, Tax Break, The Australian Government on December 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Businesses can claim an additional tax deduction when they buy certain assets, and when they spend money to improve existing assets, for a limited time. It’s called the Small Business and General Business Tax Break – ‘business tax break’ for short. The Australian Government announced the tax break as an ‘investment allowance’ in December 2008 [...]
DIAC refutes hoax email on asylum seeker policy
Posted in Immigration News, tagged asylum seeker, asylum seekers, Australia, Australia accepts, Benefits, circulating, claims, criminals, Department of Immigration and Citizenship, DIAC, emails, falsely claim, free houses, government, granted permanent visas, gross inaccuracies, hoax email, hoax., ignore, in Australia., income-support, international obligations, internet, media, no access to Centrelink benefits., no cash payments, payments, permanent residents, permanently, policy, provided, public, receive, refugee status, refugees, refutes, ridiculous, security and identity checks, settling, terrorists, under Australia’s Integrated Humanitarian Settlement Strategy, urging, visa, visas on October 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship (DIAC) is urging the media and the public to ignore hoax emails circulating on the internet about government benefits provided to asylum seekers and refugees permanently settling in Australia. Some of the hoax emails also falsely claim Australia accepts terrorists and other criminals under its international obligations. “The text [...]
Extend Cash Incentives To Nurses Who Want To Work In General Practice, Australia
Posted in Jobs and careers, tagged , $40 million, 541, AMA, AMA President, aside, Bringing, cash, designed, Dr Andrew Pesce, effectively, extended, federal government's, five years, funding, General, government, health sector, incentive, include, lure, million, money, nurses, Nurses Back, practice, program, recruited, scheme, targets, vital, work, workforce on August 31, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The AMA wants the government cash incentive scheme designed to lure nurses back into the workforce to be extended to include nurses who want to work in general practice. It was reported this week (The Australian, 27 August 2009) that the Federal Government’s program to bring nurses back into the workforce was failing to meet [...]
$18 million for ten lucky schools
Posted in Local News, tagged $18 million, Beldon, Beldon Primary School, Butler, Butler Primary School, East Butler Primary School, Edgewater, Edgewater Primary School, funding, Girrawheen Senior High School, government, governments stimulus package., granted., high school, lucky, Mercy College, million, new funding, northern suburbs, Quinns Beach, Quinns Beach Primary School, Quinns Rocks, Quinns Rocks Primary School, school, schools, stimulus, stimulus package, suburb, ten lucky schools, Ten schools, Warwick, Warwick Senior High School, Yanchep, Yanchep District High School on July 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Ten schools in the northern suburbs were granted over $18 million in new funding as part of the governments stimulus package. Butler Primary School gets $2.95 million Beldon Primary School gets $1.4 million East Butler Primary School gets $1.8 million Edgewater Primary School gets $2.9 million Quinns Beach Primary School gets $1.55 million Quinns Rocks [...]
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