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Howard flags infrastructure fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
The Prime Minister John Howard has announced plans to establish an infrastructure fund similar to that proposed by the Labor party, with a minimum of one per cent of budget surpluses to go into the fund. The announcement came as part of his five-year ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... in subsidies to help Elders and Optus take high-speed broadband to Australians living in the bush. Prime Minister John Howard and Communications Minister Helen Coonan today announced that the Optus-Elders joint venture had been chosen to take broadband ...

Mining may halt but football endures

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... per cent of the Murray Darling inflows. These revelations have come to light only a month after The Prime Minister John Howard put Murray Darling irrigation farmers on notice as they might be refused their next water allocation. As farmers struggle to ...

Rate rise spectre saps consumer confidence

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
... for landlords to run at a loss, it might explain why rents haven't completely gone through the roof. Prime Minister John Howard remains upbeat and says Australia's unemployment levels can be kept "for years" at their current 30-year lows. That's good ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2007
... remoteness from markets and the pattern of demographic settlement. The Nationals have put pressure on Prime Minister John Howard's $10 billion water rescue plan saying that they wish to limit the buy-back of irrigation licences and limit environmental ...

Daily economic round-up

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
... third most on record, however a decline of 6 per cent is anticipated for the 2007-08 financial year. Prime Minister John Howard has announced a further $350 million for drought relief as a consequence of the worst drought in a 100 years that has affected ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 SEP 2006
... have joined Australia in calling for developing countries to reduce agricultural trade protection. Prime Minister John Howard said last night that whilst Australia's subsidies were only a few per cent, in the US they were in the 20 per cent zone, in ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2006
... that the Australian Government would look towards backing local candidates ahead of importing skills, Prime Minister John Howard said the skills shortage had arisen as a result of good management by the government, while the opposition said it was a ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2006
... Bell said that a failed bank would have to lose 70 per cent of assets before customers would lose any. Prime Minister John Howard has announced that the government intended to spend $10 billion in creating two new army battalions and raising the size ...

Economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
Prime Minister John Howard has announced a range of measures aimed at easing the impact of the fuel crisis bought about by rising crude oil prices, tensions in the Middle East and the increasing demands by the industrial expansion in China and India. ...