Media releases

The release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) indicates that inflationary pressures continue to remain modest.

After two and a half weeks of the election campaign, the Labor Party has made promises for new spending of $3.8 billion.

Labor's grand plan for the rollback of GST amounts to a promise to keep over $29 out of every $30 of GST collected.

The 2001-02 Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook, released today, shows continued resilience of the Australian economy in a very unfavourable international climate.

The Government will enhance the previously announced measure of providing a tax exemption for certain foreign source income of expatriates resident in Australia for less than four years.

Venture capital tax concessions will be extended as part of a major program by the Government to boost investment in venture capital.

Labor is opposed to the GST but now they want to run it. And they haven't got a clue how it works.

The Government will amend the income tax legislation concerning the deductibility of expenses incurred by taxpayers in travelling between two places of unrelated income earning activity.

I today announced a number of appointments to the Companies and Securities Advisory Committee (CASAC) and its Legal Sub-Committee.

Today the Government is announcing that the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 will be amended, for asset transfers from 11 November 1999, to include a new capital gains tax (CGT) rollover

The Governor-General in Council has appointed Dr Jill Walker, a Sydney economist, to the Australian Competition Tribunal for a five year term.

The United States Ambassador to Australia and I have signed a Protocol today that will amend the double taxation convention between Australia and the United States of America for the avoidance of d

In 2000-01, the Commonwealth general government sector achieved an underlying cash surplus of $5.6 billion and an accrual fiscal surplus of $5.9 billion.

The IMF's latest World Economic Outlook (WEO) confirms that the economic fundamentals in the Australian economy remain sound, despite a slowdown in world growth.

I have appointed Mr Ian Mackintosh and Mr Phillip Prior as members of the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) for terms of three years.

The Governor-General in Council has today appointed Professor Berna Collier as a full-time member of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC).

The Australian economy continued its solid growth in the June quarter of 2001.

Labor's announcement on funerals demonstrates how Rollback would create complexity and compliance difficulties, not only for the funeral industry but for thousands of other businesses that deal wit

The Eighth APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting in Suzhou, China on 8-9 September, provided an important opportunity for regional Finance Ministers to discuss developments in the international economy a

I will be visiting China from Friday, September 7 to Sunday, September 9, to attend the 8th APEC Finance Ministers' Meeting in Suzhou.