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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 ...

Coalition still unconvinced on 12 pc SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... rolling 12 month employer superannuation contributions into funds excluding self-managed funds, at end 2007 when the Rudd Government was elected, were $58 billion and by June this year have increased to only $60 billion. While Senator Cormann is right ...

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 ...

Singapore to win asset mgmt race: report

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... when the Federal Government seeks to promote the country as a financial services hub. For instance, the former Rudd Government cut withholding tax for distributions to offshore investors in Australian managed funds as part of its plans to make Australia ...

Investor confidence shaken, and stirred

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... confidence shaker with Western Australia reporting the biggest decline of 2.8 points after the May announcement by the Rudd Government of the Resources Super Profits Tax while Queenslanders are simply the least confident of all Australians with a rating ...

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 ...

Raising SG must remain despite RSPT outcome: Brogden

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
... mining sector get out of their entrenched positions and negotiate to find a resolution," he said. Brogden commended Kevin Rudd for his time as prime minister and his work on building the local financial service industry. "Kevin Rudd was always a strong ...

First femme PM

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUN 2010
The morning after. Either you're still reading the obituaries and the political assassination of Kevin Rudd or you have moved on to congratulate Australia's first femme PM - Julia Gillard. I won't bore you with the details. Pick up any local daily or ...

PM Gillard makes wealth reforms more likely

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
... planners charge from one to three years). Moreover, the influence of Dr. Ken Henry, who is widely seen as close to Kevin Rudd, may wane. Whichever way it goes, both the short and long game for financial services industry associations just got more co ...