Peter Costello
Future Fund was doing its job, so why change it?
Jim Chalmers is a good treasurer, but he is trying to pull a swifty with his new mandate, writes one reader.
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Chalmers says Future Fund can’t be trapped in Costello’s past
Jim Chalmers has accused predecessor Peter Costello of being rolled into a “deliberately unhinged” attack on plans to encourage the $230 billion Future Fund to invest in new homes, renewable energy and cybersecurity.
- by Shane Wright
‘Very bad’: Costello slams Chalmers over Future Fund
The former treasurer says the Future Fund was never created to be a “political slush fund”.
- by Shane Wright
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
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
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
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