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Jobs full recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... jobs! You want more? Here's another from the ABC archive dated 13 May 2004 reporting that then 'Federal Treasurer Peter Costello says the unemployment rate is below 6 per cent for the eighth month in a row due to the Government's management of the economy.' ...

Costello joins Future Fund board

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Former Treasurer Peter Costello has been appointed to the $64 billion Future Fund's Board of Guardians. Costello is expected to take up his post on 18 December, after officially quitting politics last month. He served as Treasurer from 1996 to 2007 ...

Too many choices, too many fees: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
... excluding SMSFs, offer consumers more than 70,000 investment options. Evans comments follow calls by former Treasurer Peter Costello that the government should stop tampering with the superannuation system. However, it was the Better Super tax reforms ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
Short-lived speculation that former Liberal Party Treasurer Peter Costello was about to be appointed by the Labor government to a leading position in running the Future Fund shows the fund is still poorly understood, three years after its launch. Rumours ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... jobs! You want more? Here's another from the ABC archive dated 13 May 2004 reporting that then 'Federal Treasurer Peter Costello says the unemployment rate is below 6 per cent for the eighth month in a row due to the Government's management of the economy.' ...

Beautiful set of numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... expectant young mothers are no longer expecting - a result of Baby Boom II following then Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello's baby bonus handout and exhortation to couples to 'have one for mum, one for dad, and one for Australia'. For sure ...

You earn, I spend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Just about five years ago in late 2003, then Australian Federal Treasurer Peter Costello flagged the possibility of retiring the Commonwealth government debt and effectively shutting down the country's bond market. While markets had no argument against ...

Blame planners, not me: Costello

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 OCT 2008
Just when you thought the financial crisis couldn't get any crazier, former Treasurer Peter Costello said planners are to blame for super fund members losing money from their super fund accounts following the stockmarket rout. "The government didn't ...

A tale of two currencies

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
... with gains against the yen surpassing the July high and rising to JPY107.74, its highest in 16-years. Treasurer Peter Costello noted last month the currency spike's effect on the national economy, saying "It's a very mixed thing... good for travelers ...

Scary markets II

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2007
... end-of-financial year Aussie dollar forecast to US92 cents and the mid-2008 forecast is now US96 cents. Treasurer Peter Costello seemed keen to scare the electorate, if not the local markets, in telling Fairfax newspapers of a 'huge tsunami' about to ...