Jim Chalmers is a good treasurer,but he is trying to pull a swifty with his new mandate,writes one reader.
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.
The former treasurer says the Future Fund was never created to be a “political slush fund”.
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.
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.
To prevent a bland contest.
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.
Months after his departure as chairman of Nine,the one-time federal treasurer has a new gig.
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.
The countdown to Mike Sneesby’s exit from Nine Entertainment started the minute his greatest board ally – former chairman Peter Costello – left in June.
The teals want to raise the tone of debate,but they get the lowest political Scrabble score with the word “racist”.