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Howard flags infrastructure fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
The Prime Minister John Howard has announced plans to establish an infrastructure fund similar to that proposed by the Labor party, with a minimum of one per cent of budget surpluses to go into the fund. The announcement came as part of his five-year ...

APX launches first local carbon trading exchange

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2007
... significant because it would set a market-based carbon price long before the official 2012 government-mandated start. "As Prime Minister Howard said the other day at the Melbourne Press Club, a deep and robust market for carbon will be vital if Australia ...

Economic round-up: Cheeseburger bill meets fat tax

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2007
... Where legislation fails taxation often takes over and, following on from the cheeseburger bill, UK doctors and the Prime Minister's Strategy Unit are now debating a fat tax. And what in the name of Ronald Macdonald is a 'Cheeseburger Bill'? When it's ...

Economic round-up: Infrastructure - sink or swim?

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2007
Weakness in our infrastructure just wont go away as a new report by the Prime Minister's chief scientific panel warns that climate changes are presenting further challenges to infrastructure and the future of our economy. Independent think tank, CEDA ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2007
... $958 million in subsidies to help Elders and Optus take high-speed broadband to Australians living in the bush. Prime Minister John Howard and Communications Minister Helen Coonan today announced that the Optus-Elders joint venture had been chosen to ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
... news today, RBA Governor Glenn Stevens is to deliver a speech on economic conditions and prospects, while former prime minister and treasurer Paul Keating will discuss Australia's superannuation industry in Sydney. On the markets, the Hay Group Report ...

Economic round-up: Kiwis at war with inflation

SUZY MAC  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... However our growth is balanced whereas New Zealand's growth is curiously ragged and perhaps this is why new Zealands prime minister Helen Clark has tried to revive the Trans-tasman currency idea. But what would be the upside for Australia?

Mining may halt but football endures

SUZY MAC  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2007
... counting 40 per cent of the Murray Darling inflows. These revelations have come to light only a month after The Prime Minister John Howard put Murray Darling irrigation farmers on notice as they might be refused their next water allocation. As farmers ...

Brumbie: The only Budget numbers that matter

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2007
... the election will really be won or lost in the smaller states. No wonder the Budget has been coordinated in the Prime Minister's Department rather than exclusively in Treasury, which is another thing those Budget briefings can sometime forget to mention. ...

Nipping at the Tiger's tail

SUZY MAC  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2007
... privatisation policies can play out. Australia and Singapore enjoy extremely close relations. Former Singapore Prime Minister was recently awarded an honoury Doctarate of Laws from the Australian National University.