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End of the world

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2008
... reporters yesterday that he thinks the sub-prime contagion has 12 months to two years left to run. No wonder Treasury chief Ken Henry has just taken off on five weeks annual leave to look after endangered wombats notwithstanding that a Daily Telegraph ...

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
... 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 and Industry ...

Water the next competitive frontier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 MAR 2008
Treasury boss Ken Henry's speech last week continues to attract interest, especially where he argues for a huge step up in national competition policy, particularly in how we price water. "In addressing the Productivity Commission roundtable on the ...

We knew it all along: Treasury

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2008
While Treasury boss Ken Henry long ago knew what was wrong with the economy and what problems the previous government's policies were causing, he apparently didn't have the political influence and muscle to do much about it. Speaking at the Ian Little ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... Macquarie Airports, and Macmahon Holdings Ltd. Oxiana Ltd announces its full year results. In economics, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry speaks in Melbourne, while the Australian Bureau of Statistics releases the labour price index for December. On Tuesday ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
... 6,331, on a volume of 1,212 contracts. Today, the ABS will release March lending finance data while Treasury secretary Ken Henry speaks at Australian Business Economists post-budget lunch. In share market news, Macquarie Bank Ltd releases its annual ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 APR 2007
... pressures. The level of economic analysis involved in the water debate has been questioned by Federal Treasury Secretary Dr Ken Henry who says that his department has had little to do with the $10 billion water package announced by the Prime Minister ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2006
... weaker at 5180. On the day Macquarie Bank will unveil its annual results while on the economics front Treasury Secretary Ken Henry speaks in Sydney and the second day of a parliamentary enquiry into credit card, debit card and ATM fees continues. Also ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2005
... also set on March 21. Today, there is little expected news on the horizon, apart from a speech from Treasury Secretary Ken Henry in Sydney.