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Budget Briefing – Brisbane

About this event

With 2025 underway and an early Federal Election on the horizon, all eyes in the super industry are on the Federal Budget, set to be delivered on Tuesday 25 March.

We hope you can join us at the ASFA Budget Briefing the next day in Brisbane where Diana Mousina, Deputy Chief Economist, AMP and ASFA Chair Gary Dransfield unpack the Budget and the government’s priorities, and what they mean for our sector.

Will this year’s Budget answer some of the following questions?

  • Is the Government spending up big in the context of an imminent general election?
  • What are the plans to address inflation and rising living costs?
  • Will employment growth be supported by the various Budget measures?
  • Will housing affordability improve in the near future as a result of program initiatives in the Budget?
  • Does the Budget provide scope for enhancing the Low Income Superannuation Tax Offset?
  • Is the Division 296 tax on individuals with more than $3 million in superannuation still part of the budget Forward Estimates? Or is superannuation tax reform off limits in the runup to the election?
  • Is a reduction in interest rates supported by the Budget settings?

Join your super industry peers and colleagues to find out.

Details

26 March, 2025
7:00am – 9:00am

Pricing (incl. GST)

Standard

Member: $175
Non-member: $230
Member table of 10: $1,200 ($120pp)
Non-member table of 10: $1,500 ($150pp)
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Diana Mousina

Deputy Chief Economist, AMP

Speaker Bio

Diana joined AMP in 2016 within the AMP Investments team. Diana’s responsibilities include providing global economic and macro investment analysis to retail, institutional and internal customers through her regular “Econosights” reports and presentations. Diana regularly presents AMP’s macro views across various media outlets including ABC, SBS, Bloomberg, CNBC, AusBiz and mainstream Australian television networks and radio stations. Diana also contributes to the asset allocation decisions of the AMP multi-asset funds.

Previously, Diana worked at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia as an economist in the Institutional Banking & Markets division. Diana holds a Bachelor of Commerce/Economics and has a Master of Finance (in funds management), both from the University of New South Wales.

Gary Dransfield

Gary Dransfield

Chair, ASFA

Speaker Bio

Mr Gary Dransfield is currently a non-executive director of Hollard Insurance and of the Australian Financial Complaints Authority (AFCA). He was formerly the Chief Executive of Insurance Australia for the Suncorp Group, has been both board member and Chair of the Insurance Council of Australia and the Insurance Council of New Zealand, and held numerous other board directorships. He has also held executive roles with IAG, Lend Lease, and AMP.

Daniel Mulino MP

Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services

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Born in Brindisi, Italy, Daniel was a young child when he moved with his family to Australia. He grew up in Canberra and completed his first degrees – arts and law – at the ANU. He then completed a Master of Economics (University of Sydney) and a PhD in economics from Yale.

He lectured at Monash University, was an economic adviser in the Gillard government and was a Victorian MP from 2014 to 2018. As Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer of Victoria, Daniel helped deliver major infrastructure projects and developed innovative financing structures for community projects.

In 2018 he was preselected for the new federal seat of Fraser and became its first MP at the 2019 election, re-elected in 2022 and 2025. From 2022 to 2025, Daniel was chair of the House of Representatives’ Standing Economics Committee in which he chaired inquiries; economic dynamism, competition and business formation and insurers’ responses to 2022 major floods claims.

In 2025, he became the Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Financial Services.

In August 2022, Daniel published ‘Safety Net: The Future of Welfare in Australia’, which aims to explore the ways in which an insurance approach can improve the effectiveness of government service delivery.