Greg Combet
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
Latest
Kerryn Phelps’ strange wake-up call to her fellow Australians
The former Wentworth MP appeared to claim that Australian democracy was under threat from sharia in a deleted post on X.
- by Kishor Napier-Raman and Stephen Brook
‘The race is on’: Australia’s urgent mission to tap global green markets
Australian governments will need to spend taxpayers’ money soon to build the industries of the future, says former Labor minister Greg Combet.
- by Mike Foley
Private capital, super to fund green transformation: Combet
Former Labor climate change minister Greg Combet says making Australia a renewables superpower will need ‘the mobilisation of a lot of capital’.
- by Clancy Yeates
Exclusive
Superannuation
Super tax could one day hit six times the workers the government claims
The new estimate will sharpen the political fight over the tax increase and intensify calls to adjust the $3 million threshold for the controversial change.
- by David Crowe
Labor figures awarded contracts without open tenders
The $160,000 in contracts to former minister Greg Combet and a former Labor adviser prompted questions from the opposition about the use of closed procurement processes.
- by Paul Sakkal
Labor election review finds vulnerabilities and ‘once-in-a-generation opportunity’
An internal review identified Queensland as a key vulnerability for Labor, which must win seats there to hold power for the long term.
- by David Crowe
Exclusive
Energy storage
‘Hard to turn off tap’: IFM Investors chair warns against gas subsidies
The former Labor minister turned infrastructure investor and super fund advocate Greg Combet says subsidies for the gas industry will stifle innovation and hurt competition.
- by Charlotte Grieve
Frydenberg’s proxy adviser laws shot down in the Senate
Regulations that shielded directors and executives from investor scrutiny have survived just three days before being tossed aside by the Senate, with opponents claiming they were only put in place to protect the government’s largest political donors.
- by Shane Wright, Jennifer Duke and Charlotte Grieve
Opinion
Climate policy
States of disarray: Australia needs national plan to tackle climate
The states are forging ahead on climate action, but Australia needs a national strategy to reduce emissions at lowest cost over the next few decades.
- by Tony Wood
‘Really alienating’: Turnbull warns Coalition against ideological campaign on super
The former PM says delaying legislated rises in the superannuation guarantee will not be enough to stop some Coalition backbenchers from trying to scrap the system.
- by Jennifer Duke
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