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Australia can lead energy transition, climate investing: Panel

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2025
... Summit Asia Pacific heard, as the US ditches ESG initiatives and sheds any trace of climate-related references in its cabinet. One of Trump's first moves when he assumed office was to withdraw the US from the Paris Agreement. The rejection of the UN ...

Sydney to host global superannuation summit

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2025
... super funds' investments in the US are projected to reach US$1 trillion. The delegation also heard from two former Trump Cabinet Secretaries, three state governors, and several "leading investment and business leaders" to gain insight into the new administration's ...

Budget 2024: Additional $11.3bn promised for housing

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... national housing agreement, which would otherwise have run out." Earlier this week, the Prime Minister convened national cabinet where premiers and chief ministers backed the new measures in the Budget to help Australians build, rent and buy. The new ...

Budget 2024: Chalmers looks to reset aged care, NDIS

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2024
... in this place take pride in it - and all of us must take responsibility for securing its future. "Working with National Cabinet to put participants at the centre of the scheme, and design and fund additional foundational supports outside of it. And ensuring ...

ART adds heavyweights to board

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... stepping down last year. For his part, Parkinson previously served as secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, secretary to the Australian Treasury and inaugural secretary of the Department of Climate Change. ART chair Andrew Fraser ...

UK, Japan slip into technical recession

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2024
... consecutive month in a row. Meanwhile, Japan's GDP contracted 0.4% in the last three months of 2023, according to the country's Cabinet Office. The economy contracted 2.9% between July and September. The International Monetary Fund predicts that Japan's ...

Government must revise infra pipeline: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
... prepared to share any names today. We've got some more due diligence to do, and I want to make sure that I take it to the Cabinet colleagues in the course of the next month, but we're choosing between internal and external, Australian and overseas," ...

Next RBA boss to be picked in July: Chalmers

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUN 2023
... through it in the usual methodical and considered way," he said. Chalmers said he is in the process of consulting with Cabinet on the decision. "I hope to finalise a view in the coming weeks. I'm aiming to make an announcement in July, but certainly ...

HESTA adds Dahn to board

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2023
... Arthur Anderson in tax. She later held senior financial positions in the Victorian Government Departments of Premier and Cabinet and Treasury and Finance. She was named trustee of the year by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees in 202 ...

Menopause: The silent economic crisis

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2023
... attention to medical misogyny. Further, on International Women's Day this year, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet released the Status of Women Report Card 2023, which stated more work needs to be done to understand barriers to women ...
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