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We are the world

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2009
... Malcolm, eat your heart out. This was US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner patting the back of Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd as he went a-visiting in the good old US of A. This was a perfectly executed diplomatic protocol if ever there was one ...

Jobless rate in perspective

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... then, it is too many jobs lost now. The Opposition took 5.2 per cent and shoved it in front of Labour Prime Minister Kevin Rudd' face saying, you're a dud. Your spending has not worked. But consider this, 'The Economist' printed edition dated 14 October ...

Don't punish fin services for GFC: Pearce

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 FEB 2009
... industry; as nearly all Australians would be adversely affected." Pearce's comments are a response to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's recent 8,000 word essay published in Monthly magazine, where he argued that the GFC was caused by market excesses themselves ...

Santa Obama

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 DEC 2008
... necessary crutch for the rest of the world to get back on their feet. This is in contrast with Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's Christmas present for the economy -- a one-time dole out to battlers, accompanied by a wish that all these money be ...

Calls to cut super contribs fails to get traction

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... their Christmas all the more special and also do their bit to support the economy and jobs as well," Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said last night. Regardless of what critics say about the detail of the proposal, the big opportunity is that transforming ...

Super funds reject calls to cut super contrib

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2008
... their Christmas all the more special and also do their bit to support the economy and jobs as well," Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, said last night. Regardless of what critics say about the detail of the proposal, the big opportunity is that transforming ...

ANZ to become top four bank in Vietnam

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 13 OCT 2008
... of Vietnam. The landmark move was witnessed by Vietnam Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, who both attended the presentation of the licence to ANZ chief Mike Smith in Canberra. "Vietnam is one of the countries we ...

Markets are a public good: PM

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2008
Australia may be a small country but it took Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's 2,700 word speech to the United Nations on Friday to articulate a way out of the global financial mess. The speech was in contrast to US Treasury secretray Henry Paulson's widely ...

Australian Ethical HQ wins Banksia award

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUL 2008
... House, won the Banksia Environmental Foundation award for the Built Environment - an award backed by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd. The refurbished building produces about 70 per cent fewer greenhouse emissions than an average commercial building and uses ...

Oil speculators push up prices 50 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2008
... the bottom of what is driving the "unjustified" oil price rises. So much for last weekend's calls by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd from Japan when he demanded OPEC increase oil production to take the inflationary heat out of the price rises. If even the ...