Politics latest: Jim Chalmers reveals he’s spoken to Paul Keating on super tax
Jim Chalmers reveals he has spoken to Paul Keating about Labor’s plan to tax superannuation balances over $3m, conceding the plan doesn’t have ‘unanimous support around Australia’.
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The vice-chancellor says US academics are working within a ‘clearly under threat’ research system, as the university launches a fresh bid to get a dozen of the best academics in the world to Australia.
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