He gets the golden ticket, I get the bullet : Commonwealth ignores flaw that will end most WA travel agents
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Western Australiaâs mid-sized travel agents look set to go to the wall after a known flaw in the rollout of a $128 million federal government package will end up paying out less than the state governmentâs $3 million contribution.
Political staffers reject lowball pay offer on Christmas Eve
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Political staffers have emphatically voted down a pay offer of between zero and less than 2 per cent increase, the first time in 13 years they have rejected an enterprise agreement.
Three in five staff who voted in the ballot in the week before Christmas rejected it.
Finance Minister Simon Birmingham has reported a pay offer was voted down by politicians staff.
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The Finance Department had offered a 1.7 per cent pay increase for electorate officers and assistants, 0.85 per cent for advisers, both coming in after six months, and no pay rise for a year for senior advisers and chiefs of staff. It is the first agreement proposed under the government s new bargaining policy to link public service pay to private sector wa
Booze and fuel excise to get red tape chop
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Alcohol and fuel excise rules will be simplified by the federal government, in a bid to reduce red tape costs for manufacturers, importers and distributors.
Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar said the Morrison government will review Australia’s excise and excise-equivalent customs duty regime to identify unnecessarily cumbersome and duplicative processes .
Alcohol excise will be simplified.
The consultation will not examine the base or rates of taxation, but rather focus on enhancing the administrative efficiency of excise and excise-equivalent customs duty regimes.
Excise is a commodity-based tax currently levied on beer, spirits, fuel and petroleum products and tobacco.
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Cabinet reshuffle a boring end to the most remarkable of years
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Scott Morrison shuffled off into the Christmas break determined not to create a headline or a fuss and aware the rest of Australia just wants a horror 2020 to be over and done with.
His first frontbench shake-up since last May’s election win was largely predictable, minimal, obvious and in line with the Prime Minister’s belief his team is leading the nation on the right path out of recession.