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Bill Kelty

September 2024

The BCA dinner is It is also the opportunity for the Prime Minister to take on the big economic reform challenges, such as tax reform and boosting productivity called for by Bill Kelty.

Kelty condemns Labor failure on economic growth

Trailblazing former union leader Bill Kelty says the Albanese government has no plan for economic growth and no appetite for the big reforms to secure Australia’s future.

  • Jennifer Hewett

April 2024

Negotiations are continuing between the federal government, major banks and retailers over the future of cash-carrying company Armaguard.

Chalmers reassures on cash supplies after Armaguard meeting

The government wants Armaguard, together with the banks and major retailers, to deal with the challenging economics of the cash distribution industry.

  • Tom McIlroy and James Eyers

March 2024

Coles has paused deliveries from Armaguard until next Friday over concerns about the stability of the cash delivery service.

Coles hoards cash over Easter as Armaguard teeters on the brink

The Lindsay Fox-controlled monopoly has engaged former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty to lead negotiations with major banks over a rescue package.

  • James Eyers and Patrick Durkin

December 2022

Bill Kelty and Paul Keating changed the face of Australia’s capital markets.

Chalmers must snuff out ACTU’s deplatforming of Productivity Commission

The treasurer has to harness the Productivity Commission against the returning curse of policy populism, clumsy government intervention and ‘sovereign’ protectionism that can only make Australia poorer.

  • The AFR View

September 2022

Bill Kelty says should be taken seriously. He knows how politics works - as proved by his invention of compulsory superannuation

Kelty puts politics first, good policy second

Bill Kelty is a political genius. But his ideas are grounded in the world of three decades ago – just like Labor’s jobs summit.

  • John Roskam
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Jim Chalmers has hosed down expectations Labor will raise the superannuation guarantee to 15 per cent, after the architects of Australia’s $3.3 trillion superannuation system, Paul Keating and Bill Kelty, abandoned the idea.

Chalmers says 15pc super not on his agenda

The architects of the superannuation system, Paul Keating and Bill Kelty, say lifting the contribution rate is not necessary.

  • Michael Read
Former prime minister Paul Keating and former ACTU leader Bill Kelty say their original target of 15 per cent compulsory super contributions “had run its race”, and they would no longer pursue it.

Keating, Kelty abandon 15pc super ambition

Thirty years after legislating compulsory super, Paul Keating and Bill Kelty have broken with Labor policy on superannuation and given up on one of their key ideas.

  • Tony Boyd and Jennifer Hewett
Former ACTU secretary Bill Kelty says instead of giving financial advice, super funds should give their members options for investing their funds.

Kelty opposes super funds offering advice (but Keating doesn’t)

One of the fathers of compulsory super, Bill Kelty, is against superannuation funds offering financial advice – a position in conflict with industry super doyens.

  • Tony Boyd
Bill Kelty and Paul Keating in an interview with The Australian Financial Review.

How 10 mega super funds will dominate financial system

Australia’s $3.3 trillion super system will mature into 10 mega funds each with $500 billion or so in assets that will dominate Australia’s financial system and seek a greater say in the governance of corporations.

  • Tony Boyd and Jennifer Hewett
Bill Kelty and Paul Keating changed the face of Australia’s capital markets.

Keating, Kelty share secrets to reform

Politicians can learn from Paul Keating and Bill Kelty, the fathers of a compulsory super system set to hit three to four times the size of Australia’s economy.

  • Tony Boyd
Transurban chief Scott Charlton has set a $23.5 million record in Castlecrag.

Transurban ‘exploiting government stupidity’: Kelty

Australia’s dominant operator and developer of toll roads, Transurban, has been accused of earning excessive returns, but its CEO says it is governments that set the terms and conditions.

  • Tony Boyd and Jennifer Hewett
Bill Kelty and Paul Keating in an interview with The Australian Financial Review

Kelty, Keating hit out at ‘no worse off’ tests

The architects of enterprise bargaining, Bill Kelty and Paul Keating, have blamed the “silly” no-worse-off tests of the Fair Work Commission and Julia Gillard’s industrial relations laws for undermining productivity and overall wages growth.

  • Jennifer Hewett and Tony Boyd
Financial Review cartoonist David Rowe’s take on the summit.

‘Better off’ test means most are not better off

The Australian Financial Review’s exclusive interview with Paul Keating and Bill Kelty effectively exposes how Labor and the unions have undermined productivity and wages growth over the past decade.

  • The AFR View

October 2020

The claims of a productivity boost from childcare are underwhelming.

When good tax policy is good social policy

Better basic tax settings would do more for female participation than showboating childcare policies.

  • The AFR View

October 2019

QIC boss Damien Frawley supports the idea of flexible super contribution rates.

QIC boss proposes flexible super contribution rates

Damien Frawley says the rate at which compulsory superannuation is paid should be flexible, possibly ranging from 7.5 per cent at the lower end to 12 per cent at the top.

  • Carrie LaFrenz
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July 2019

Labor may dump 2pc budget tax slug

Labor is considering dumping its policy to slug high income earners with a punitive 49 per cent marginal tax rate, as senior opposition figures say former union leader Bill Kelty is worth listening to.

  • Andrew Tillett
The Australian dollar barely budged after the second rate cut in two months from the RBA.

Kelty challenges both parties on tax

Neither Labor nor the Coalition have faced up to the key challenges facing the Australian economy, including fashioning a tax system fit for the future.

  • Jennifer Hewett
Bill Kelty captured Hawke for all his flaws, complexity and laughter.

Bill Kelty urges cuts to top tax rate

Bill Kelty contradicts Labor's policy on tax and argues the Morrison government's tax package doesn't go far enough in reducing the top marginal tax rate

  • Jennifer Hewett

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