Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 191 - 200 of 830 results for "Prime Minister"

In a nutshell: Federal Budget 2019

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... marks the next stage in that plan. "Lower taxes for 10 million Australians and three million small businesses." Prime Minister Scott Morrison is expected to announce an election in the coming days, slated for mid-May.

New Zealand investors call for action after attacks

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... severely damaged." The groups' calls are being backed up by the Australian and New Zealand governments. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said in a press conference last week: "We are working on new laws that would seek to apply criminal penalties ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... infrastructure investment. Signaled looser liquidity stance by pointing to further RRR cuts for smaller banks." Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced these measures at the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5 simultaneous with ...

Investors raise alarm on Facebook

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
... how deeply recent events are being felt, especially in New Zealand. In the days following the attack, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said of Facebook: "They are the publisher, not the postman. There cannot be a case of all profit, no responsibility." ...

New directors join Frontier Advisors

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... a member of the board of the Reserve Bank of Australia. From 1991 to 1994 he was principal economic adviser to Prime Minister Paul Keating. He is also a former head of economic planning and development for the Kingdom of Bahrain. Cole is chief executive ...

Chief economist update: Breaking up is hard to do

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true..." - Neil Sedaka. This song must be playing in UK prime minister Theresa May's head - it should as it did in mine - when a second round of voting in the House of Commons on her Brexit ...

Chief economist update: Iron ore up or iron ore down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... higher than Treasury's projections - they'll help counteract the slowing economy and at the same time allow Prime Minister Scott Morrison to offer some largesse in order for the Coalition to remain in government after the upcoming Federal ele ...

Up close and personal: Women in financial services

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... in Australia to hold the office of Assistant Treasurer; and later, as Communications Minister, she was alongside Prime Minister John Howard as he announced the sale of then government-owned Telstra. After she left Canberra, Coonan built a portfolio of ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... investment. Signaled looser liquidity stance by pointing to further RRR cuts for smaller banks," it said. Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang announced the measures at the opening of the National People's Congress on March 5, simultaneous with his ...

Institutional investors call out climate policy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... change represents nor will it unlock large-scale investment in zero emissions solutions." In releasing the policy, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said $2 billion will be invested in the Climate Solutions Fund. It is supposed to build on the success of ...