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Peter Costello

November

Vidot's journey from NRL to WWE

Peter Costello’s journalist son back in the spotlight

A Current Affair’s Seb Costello had an ugly interaction with a person involved with Oak Capital this week.

  • Mark Di Stefano
HMC Capital’s David Di Pilla.

Dealmaker David Di Pilla’s other REIT is underwater

The capital markets darling’s DigiCo REIT will be the biggest IPO in years. His other REIT is floundering.

  • Mark Di Stefano
Peter Costello, left, set up the Future Fund when he was treasurer. Changes put in place Treasurer Jim Chalmers (centre) that will be acted on by the new Future Fund chairman Greg Combet (right) risk making it a “slush fund”, Costello says.

‘I would not have agreed to Future Fund shift’

With $230 billion to come into play, expect a long line of rent-seekers to form a queue, says former treasurer and Future Fund founder Peter Costello.

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Peter Costello accused Kevin Rudd of wanting to drain the Future Fund’s earnings for election promises.

‘Like bears to a honey-pot’: how the Future Fund got political

Treasurer Jim Chalmers’ planned changes to the nation’s $230 billion savings account might be unfinished business for Labor.

  • Tom McIlroy
Future Fund Chairman Greg Combet.

Future Fund investment shake-up comes with risks

Jim Chalmers insists Labor is making only a subtle change to the sovereign wealth fund’s investment mandate. But it could be a slippery slope.

  • John Kehoe
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Jim Chalmers.

Chalmers directs Future Fund to invest in housing and renewables

The treasurer has directed the country’s sovereign wealth fund to prioritise investments in housing, renewable energy and infrastructure.

  • Tom McIlroy and Michael Read
Tim Costello, chief advocate, Alliance for Gambling Reform.

Nine Entertainment keeps its Costello quotient

Another member of the Costello family appeared at the media company’s AGM, to lash it over gambling advertising.

  • Mark Di Stefano

October

Jordan Peterson

Guilt-mongers and hedonists: Jordan Peterson rails against society

Jordan Peterson delivered his speech via video link and did not attend a high-powered dinner on Monday night at the Opera House.

  • Maxim Shanahan
Today host Karl Stefanovic directly addressed the report on air this morning.

Nine review triggers anger as bad behaviour goes unpunished

Today Show host Karl Stefanovic said there were open investigations into poor behaviour by individuals at Nine. Has Nine’s culture review backfired?

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones

September

Treasurer Jim Chalmers delivers the 2023-24 budget outcome in Canberra on Monday.

Chalmers isn’t a fair dinkum fiscal repairer like Keating and Walsh

It’s not unfair to look through Dr Chalmers’ two vanishing surpluses to the bigger budget picture: not enough has been done to tackle Australia’s long-term spending.

  • The AFR View
Productivity Commission chairwoman Danielle Wood last week admitted that economists have lost power in policy debates.

How business and economists can become relevant again

A central problem is that good economic policies have not been well communicated and have often been debated in an echo chamber of elites.

  • John Kehoe
Bruce Gordon’s private investment company, Birketu, is the largest shareholder in Nine.

Bruce Gordon moves closer to 25pc stake in Nine amid CEO search

The billionaire Rich Lister is close to offloading a NSW TV station that prevents him from wielding a larger voting stake in Nine.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Nine’s chairwoman Catherine West and outgoing CEO Mike Sneesby.

Nine farewells Mike Sneesby after three years and $3b share price slide

His legacy is likely to be remembered in two parts: what he did do at Stan, and what he didn’t do when he took charge of the publishing and broadcasting giant.

  • Zoe Samios

The brutal retail politics behind the inflation fight

Relations between the Albanese government and the Reserve Bank of Australia are at an unprecedented low. Only one thing will ease the tension.

  • Phillip Coorey

Lift RBA target band, Costello dares Chalmers

Peter Costello has challenged Labor to raise the RBA’s target band for inflation rather than attack the bank over monetary policy, after Wayne Swan’s accusations.

  • Phillip Coorey and Tom McIlroy
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George Wright.

BHP’s Labor whisperer goes global

George Wright was most recently the Big Australian’s group corporate affairs officer. But no more.

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  • Myriam Robin

August

Then-Fortescue Metals Group chief executive Elizabeth Gaines speaking at Kalgoorlie’s Diggers & Dealers conference in 2020.

Diggers & Dealers lavishes riches upon favoured scribes

The award handed out at the annual Diggers & Dealers conference is on current gold prices worth nearly $4000.

  • Myriam Robin

July

Jim Chalmers rubbished Deloitte’s “guessing”. Ten weeks later, he all but confirmed it.

Deloitte 1, Jim Chalmers 0

Deloitte is sceptical of the government’s Future Made in Australia policy. Did that lead Jim Chalmers to slap down its economic forecasting too?

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  • Myriam Robin

June

Andrew Gordon, Bruce Gordon and Genevieve Gordon are in the frame for a 25 per cent economic interest in Australia’s biggest media company.

Bruce Gordon backs Nine as $550m stake fuels succession questions

The billionaire says the publishing and broadcast giant is a company “worth investing in” despite turmoil, controversy and the abrupt departure of its chairman.

  • Sam Buckingham-Jones
Catherine West, Nine Entertainment’s new chairwoman.

Catherine West takes Nine’s helm – and crisis – from Peter Costello

The broadcast and publishing giant’s new chair is in the biggest role of her life, steering a company reeling through an uncertain future. Is she up for it?

  • Max Mason and Sam Buckingham-Jones

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