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Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... might have subsided, with strong gains posted on Wednesday. Rivkin global analyst Tim Radford said he did not think Kevin Rudd's mere return as Australian Prime Minister would affect markets on Thursday, but his communication on policy might. "The market ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2013
... US Commerce Department slashed its estimate for first-quarter growth from 2.4 per cent to 1.8 per cent and, locally, Kevin Rudd won back the Labor leadership from Prime Minister Julie Gillard in a caucus vote on Wednesday night. In economic news on Thursday ...

LGBT wealth management market worth $3trn

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... specialising in the area. The campaign to legalise gay marriage in Australia has received the support of former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd after he said that a secular state should be able to recognise same sex marriage. A change from his previous view. ...

KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... but you wouldn't expect Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs (now former Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs) Kevin Rudd to speak those precise words in front of the American Press - and the world - in Washington, would you? What he said was: "I ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... maybe not that much but the point is it would have been better targeted. The proof in the pudding is then Australian PM Kevin Rudd's A$900 handout to every Australian man, woman and child. Sure there was China and the rest of Asia, and RBA rate cuts ...

It's official, Rudd saved Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 SEP 2011
It is being reported today that Treasury believe it was really former prime minister Kevin Rudd who saved Australia from the GFC and not the mining industry, but before we get too excited the analysis simply confirms that we don't just have a two-speed ...

Manufacturing's Gerry Harvey moment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... productivity so that when the Chindia resources boom peters out in 20-30 years time we'll be ready. Former prime minister Kevin Rudd must be ruing how this debate is so much like a re-run of his mining industry super profits tax policy. It's as if the ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... year in Australian politics. Julia Gillard became the nation's first female Prime Minister in June after support for Kevin Rudd vanished almost as quickly as it emerged, out of the blue, less than two years prior. Gillard was seen as a much safer bet ...

Speaker chaos could derail super reforms

... lower house numbers currently 76 to 74, if a Labor member is made speaker and say a division (vote) were called while Kevin Rudd foreign affairs minister was out of the country at the same time as say the Treasurer was away at a G20 meeting or the defence ...

Shorten takes on superannuation portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... executive of SPAA. There is speculation that if it wasn't for Shorten's role in the demise of former prime minister Kevin Rudd, Shorten would have been granted a cabinet post. Nonetheless his appointment to the junior ministry reinforces the pattern ...