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KRudd comeback biting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 FEB 2012
... but you wouldn't expect Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs (now former Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs) Kevin Rudd to speak those precise words in front of the American Press - and the world - in Washington, would you? What he said was: "I ...

Waiting and hoping

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... maybe not that much but the point is it would have been better targeted. The proof in the pudding is then Australian PM Kevin Rudd's A$900 handout to every Australian man, woman and child. Sure there was China and the rest of Asia, and RBA rate cuts ...

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 ...

Researcher van Eyk appoints two, Ruddock departs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2011
Research house van Eyk loses a senior investment analyst to UBS this month and has since made two new appointments to its analyst team. Caitlin Ruddock left her role at van Eyk after four years to join UBS this month as the research house and consultant ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... year in Australian politics. Julia Gillard became the nation's first female Prime Minister in June after support for Kevin Rudd vanished almost as quickly as it emerged, out of the blue, less than two years prior. Gillard was seen as a much safer bet ...

Coalition still unconvinced on 12 pc SG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2010
... APRA, 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 ...

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
... during a time 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 ...

Investor confidence shaken, and stirred

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... key 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 ...