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.
The former Wentworth MP appeared to claim that Australian democracy was under threat from sharia in a deleted post on X.
Australian governments will need to spend taxpayers’ money soon to build the industries of the future,says former Labor minister Greg Combet.
Former Labor climate change minister Greg Combet says making Australia a renewables superpower will need ‘the mobilisation of a lot of capital’.
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.
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.
An internal review identified Queensland as a key vulnerability for Labor,which must win seats there to hold power for the long term.
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.
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.
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.
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.