Media releases

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has today launched the first Australian ANZAC coin from a new annual legal tender program honouring all men and women who have

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today released the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) Review of Pa

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has called the latest Budget attack by the Leader of the Opposition a poorly targeted piece of policy-on-the-run that would lik

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today announced regulatory changes that will require superannuation funds to report long-term returns prominently in member sta

Key international securities body, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO), today released a report on its preferred international direction for the regulation of short s

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today welcomed the endorsement of Australia's regulatory response to credit rating agencies (CRAs) by key international securi

CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA – Senator Nick Sherry, Australian Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law and the Hon Simon Power, New Zealand Minister of Commerce, met today in Canberra and agreed tha

The Rudd Government has today tasked the Productivity Commission (PC) with examining Australia's framework in relation to the remuneration of directors and executives.

Today Treasurer, Wayne Swan, and Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Nick Sherry, announced reforms aimed at curbing excessive "golden handshakes" - or termination payments - p

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today announced the release of regulations which give effect to the Government's decision to halve the minimum payment amounts

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has welcomed the successful passage through Parliament of the Tax Laws Amendment (2008 Measures No.

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has today attended the inaugural Responsible Investment Academy Advisory Council to hand over $2.5 million in funding from the

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has today met with banking and finance industry representatives in Sydney to discuss how to improve the usefulness and quality

The Assistant Treasurer Chris Bowen and the Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, Senator Nick Sherry, today announced that the Government will shortly introduce legislation to regulate

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has today welcomed a Parliamentary Joint Committee on Corporations and Financial Services Inquiry into recent corporate collapses

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has called on the new Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey to take the opportunity to officially drop the Opposition's reckless, uncosted

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has today launched the StepUP low interest loan program in Tasmania, which is designed to help vulnerable, low income

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law and Senator for Tasmania, and Jodie Campbell, Federal Member for Bass, today hosted an Economic Roundtable to hear firsthand ab

Treasurer Wayne Swan and Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, today announced relief from minimum account-based pension draw down requirements.

Senator Nick Sherry, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law, has today welcomed the passage through Parliament of the Corporations Amendment (No 1) Bill 2008 which will ensure that