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Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan today welcomed Financial Planning Association research showing that 71 per cent of employees believe they should have the right to choose their own su

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, today announced new rules for the treatment of distributions by co-operative companies, allowing them to frank distribu

Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan today announced that a ministerial meeting she chaired in Brisbane had agreed to a landmark package of negligence reforms to

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced that from today, gifts to the value of $2 or more made to The Crime Stoppers Foundation of Western Austra

Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan said today that more than $4.7 million worth of superannuation had been recovered since the she launched Unclaimed Super Reco

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced that from today, gifts to the value of $2 or more made to The New South Wales Crime Stoppers Programme, w

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, today announced the terms of reference for the Review of the Financial Sector Levies.

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator the Hon Helen Coonan, today announced a package of reforms designed to strengthen the prudential regulation of superannuation.

Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan today launched the Unclaimed Super Recovery initiative, designed to reunite Australians with the almost $7 billion superannua

Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan said Parliament had today passed the Government's demerger legislation, giving businesses the certainty they need to move ahe

Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan said today Labor had shown a complete disregard for Australian taxpayers by indicating it was opposing the Government's plans

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, has announced that from today, gifts to the value of $2 or more to the Australian Literacy and Numeracy Foundation will

Senator Helen Coonan, Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer and key representatives of the Mental Health Council of Australia and beyondblue met in Melbourne today to discuss recommend

In response to comments today from the Mental Health Council of Australia and beyondblue, Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Revenue Senator Helen Coonan said that she had no intention of o

Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan today released the final report of the Review of the Law of Negligence.

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The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan, welcomed the introduction into Parliament yesterday of another key tranche of business tax reform legislation.

The third Ministerial Meeting on Public Liability Insurance, to be held in Sydney, has been rescheduled to Wednesday, October 2, 2002.

Assistant Treasurer Senator Helen Coonan today called on State and Territory Governments to stand by their 1997 agreement on tobacco franchise fees.

The Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer, Senator Helen Coonan and Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer, Senator Ian Campbell today released the Australian Competition and Consum