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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 ...

PM's wrong and right oil strategy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2008
... manufacturing hybrid engines in Australia will do more to address Australia's oil supply worries than Prime Minister Kevin Rudd lecturing OPEC to increase production. During the weekend it was widely reported that the Prime Minister, concerned about ...

Govt to create national infra investment fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... all the Surplus is expected to be channelled into the new fund. Speculation about the BAF began when Prime Minister Kevin Rudd in a speech to the WA Chamber of Commerce last Wednesday said, "It's time to set our eyes on addressing the nation's long term ...

Our two-track super model

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd could be sending strong regulatory signals when he said people earning more than $60,000 may not need welfare support and government protection. The Prime Minister this morning told Fairfax radio that the people who really ...

Margin lending collapses risk regulatory over-reach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 14 APR 2008
... extent should the government be there to bail them out when it comes unstuck? This might have been on Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's mind in early March when he told reporters that consumers need to understand the organisations they are dealing with and ...

That's life, four pillars to stay forever

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... rock. The report will obviously have to be rewritten. As for Heritage Listing the sky in NSW, no wonder Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has escaped for 17 days. And no doubt his plane flew west from Canberra so he would minimise any NSW sky rental charge. ...