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LUCRF makes history

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... decision to do this was so important it is akin to today's fight against climate change. Charlie Donnelly, national secretary of the National Union of Workers, the union that inherited the Storeman and Packers, said while the union may not have quite ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... responsible for a two per cent tumble on Wall Street on Wednesday. Nervous investors found no relief in US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's reassurances Thursday that the two groups were "adequately capitalised" in the face of a "challenging period." ...

Westpac's Kelly signs UN water mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... the first bank globally and the first Australian company to sign the mandate, which was officially launched by the UN Secretary-General last weekend. Kelly's participation could see the steward of BT Financial Group, Australia's largest wealth management ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... purely on the fundamentals of demand and supply. Oliver's comments come as oil approaches a new record and after OPEC Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri told Reuters that oil speculation is so extreme daily trading volumes are now 15 times bigger than ...

The fight over how to fight inflation

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
People arguing that Australia should relax its inflation targets are peculiar and misguided, argues Ken Henry, secretary of the Commonwealth Treasury. Henry's comments, in a speech he gave yesterday to a forum of Australian Business Economists in Sydney ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... releases minutes of its May board meeting, Treasurer Wayne Swan speaks at an AICD lunch in Melbourne, and Federal Treasury Secretary Ken Henry gives a post-budget address to the Australian Business Economists. In data, the Australian Chamber of Commerce ...

US regulation review models Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2008
... Report. Central to the proposed reforms that seem to suggest Australia has become somewhat of a global model, US Treasury secretary Henry M Paulson Jr said they would introduce a tri-partite model that focuses on having a system stability regulator ...

US Treasury to announce regulatory overhaul

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 31 MAR 2008
... plan might be seen as a response to the sub-prime fiasco, the NYT said it really extends policy initiatives of Treasury Secretary Henry M Paulson Jr to update American financial market regulation in relation what is now considered world's best practi ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
... about it. Speaking at the Ian Little Memorial Lecture on Tuesday in Melbourne, Henry said, he and Ian Little, a former Secretary of the Victorian Department for Treasury and Finance, had discussed "the challenges posed by a near full employment economy ...

Allco defends move

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
... dialogue with the syndicate banks to restructure the terms and conditions of this facility," Tom Lennox, AFG company secretary said in a statement. "A market capitalisation Review Event then occurred on 9 January 2008. This has subsisted since that time." ...