Peter Costello
Future Fund told to sink cash into homes and green energy
The $230 billion Future Fund was created to stop a black hole in the federal budget. It’s now been tasked with investing in housing, energy and infrastructure.
- by Shane Wright
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Peter Costello headlines Higgins party – but what happens to the moola?
The famous fundraising outfit has lost its namesake seat but that doesn’t mean it will disband.
- by Stephen Brook, Tom Cowie and Kishor Napier-Raman
Days before arrest, Jones partied with top silks and Liberal elites
On Monday, Alan Jones was arrested and charged with indecent assault offences. Two days earlier, he was MC at the 80th birthday of a top silk and former Liberal MP.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
Shrinkflation equation needs explanation
Great planning means looking at infrastructure needs well into the future and that’s what the supermarkets are doing by buying up future sites, something governments are not good at doing – future hospitals, schools, and transport corridors left out of the equation.
Former no more: What Peter Costello did next
Months after his departure as chairman of Nine, the one-time federal treasurer has a new gig.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
He’s back: What Peter Costello did next
The former federal treasurer’s career took a nosedive after that incident at Canberra Airport. Now he has just scored an appointment to a prestigious board.
- by Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
The after-hours call that spelled Sneesby’s end at Nine
The chief executive’s departure comes less than a week after Nine’s successful month-long Olympics and Paralympics coverage concluded, and with a tough set of financial results in the rearview mirror.
- by Calum Jaspan
Opinion
Executive shake-up
Nine CEO is out the door and it was only a matter of time
The countdown to Mike Sneesby’s exit from Nine Entertainment started the minute his greatest board ally – former chairman Peter Costello – left in June.
- by Elizabeth Knight
Opinion
Parliament House
Be more civil, you racist: Why insults should not be banned in parliament
The teals want to raise the tone of debate, but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.
- by Parnell Palme McGuinness
CBD feels the love at the Midwinter Ball
Business leaders, lobbyists, media executives and actors have descended on Canberra for a night of shameless networking … sorry, raising money for charity.
- by Stephen Brook
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