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Australia's weekus horribilis

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2018
... financial markets hate uncertainty. The week of 20-24 August began with a challenge to sitting Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's leadership of the Liberal Party and ended with the sitting Treasurer Scott Morrison emerging as the country's ...

Scott Morrison becomes Prime Minister, markets react

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2018
... which, at times, constrains the capacity of successive governments to pursue policy changes." Outgoing Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he would quit the parliament "not before too long." In the previous leadership spills in 2010, 2013 and 2015 ...

Labor responds to 'unfair' Budget

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
... "ridiculous" to wait for a tax cut that long. Bowen told the ABC's Leigh Sales in an interview that "you will have to re-elect Malcolm Turnbull twice to get that tax relief." It's a proposal, Bowen said, that is "completely reckless." In his speech ...

Chief economist update: View from the National Farmers' Federation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2018
... for taking time to respond to my piece on the Australian agriculture industry published on this page yesterday titled, " Malcolm puts agriculture in the middle ". We had a telephone conversation where Scott told me that while he agrees with the overall ...

Chief economist update: Malcolm puts agricuture in the middle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2018
... politically it would have been better for us if we had done it years ago." These are the words from Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull doing a "mea culpa" for waiting two years before establishing the Royal Commission investigating misconducts ...

Treat real estate agents like advisers: REIA

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... the real estate vendor, the Real Estate Institute of Australia advised in a Royal Commission submission. REIA president Malcolm Gunning noted a proliferation of businesses, portraying themselves as impartial, who choose real estate agents for vendors ...

Tariff exemption a sigh of relief: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... respectively imposed by US President Donald Trump after he announced it on Twitter on March 9. After speaking to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, Trump said he is "committed to having a very fair and reciprocal military and trade relationship" and both ...

Royal Commission begins in February

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
... with former High Court judge Kenneth Hayne named as Royal Commissioner. At the time a joint statement from Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Treasurer Scott Morrison said that "instead of the inquisition into capitalism that some have called for, the ...

US investment giant buys La Trobe Financial

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
... of A$13 billion, including a retail Credit Fund of almost $2 billion and over $1 billion of public RMBS bonds issued. Malcolm Jackson, managing director - tactical opportunities at Blackstone, said they are pleased to partner with La Trobe at this time ...

Federal Government names Royal Commission lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2017
... Court judge lead the Royal Commission into the banking, superannuation and financial services industry. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, in a joint statement with Attorney-General George Brandis and Treasurer Scott Morrison, announced the Government ...