Taxpayers hit for website

Jul 16, 2009 | News Clippings

Taxpayers have spent 71 cents for every hit on Kevin Rudd’s stimulus website, new data released by the government shows. The Rudd government spent $164,000 to set up the website, which provides details of the rollout of spending under the government’s $42 billion...

Threats and opportunities

Jul 10, 2009 | Speeches

It’s great to be back in the hub of the neo-liberal conspiracy. I want to thank Byron and Whitney for allowing me to speak today because it is an honour to be here this afternoon as you appoint Sophie Mirabella as ALSF Patron. I said this is the heart of the...

Future Fund boss cagey on economic growth forecasts

May 28, 2009 | News Clippings

The general manager of the federal government’s $58 billion Future Fund has refused to say where he sees economic growth in the longer term, despite persistent questioning from coalition senators. During a Senate estimate hearing in Canberra, Paul Costello wouldn’t...

PM ‘takes Victoria for granted’

Mar 7, 2009 | News Clippings

Kevin Rudd is under fire for spending more time overseas than in Victoria since becoming Prime Minister. Answers to Opposition questions in Parliament reveal the PM spent almost three times as many nights overseas as he did in Victoria during his first two years. And...

Breaking through medical myths

May 1, 2008 | Articles

Lifting the veil of health ‘stakeholders’… Earlier this year, the new Minister for Health referred to the need to ‘rebuild health services after the last decade of neglect’ as only 73.4 per cent of all Medicare services were being bulk-billed....