The Economist
| 9 months ago
Australia in flimsy boats has left a wake of human misery in the waters north of the country. In the 11 years to June, 960-odd asylum-seekers and crew have vanished at sea while trying to reach Australia, about two-thirds of them in the past three...
The Age
| 9 months ago
Date August 17, 2012 Read later Outraged independent MP Tony Windsor flays Opposition Leader Tony Abbott in Parliament yesterday. Photo: Andrew Meares IT WAS the second anniversary of Julia Gillard's famous promise that no government she led would...
The Age
| 9 months ago
Alex Ellinghausen THE Gillard government now faces a host of tough budgetary and policy choices after its manufacturing task force urged it to cut business taxes, reduce ''the impacts of the carbon price'', and lift spending on infrastructure, skills...
The Australian
| 9 months ago
Abbott two years ago begged for support to become Prime Minister, saying he would do anything except "sell my arse" to get the job, Parliament heard today. Mr Windsor called Mr Abbott "an absolute disgrace" and said the Opposition Leader had promised...
The Age
| 9 months ago
Independent MP Tony Windsor has launched a fierce attack on Tony Abbott in parliament over carbon pricing, calling the Opposition Leader a ''disgrace'' and repeating his claim he would have done anything to become prime minister in 2010. Mr Windsor's...
The Daily Telegraph
| 9 months ago
Leader Tony Abbott has moved to censure Prime Minister Julia Gillard over what he calls her "massive betrayal" in introducing the carbon tax. The move to suspend regular proceedings is the first for the opposition since parliament resumed after a six-...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
| 9 months ago
The taskforce was set up last year after a series of job losses in the automotive industry. It has been looking at ways the manufacturing sector can compete with the high Australian dollar and how it can make the most of booming Asian economies. The...
Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
Louie Douvis Federal and state governments should develop a stimulus package to help ailing manufacturers cope with the high Australian dollar, a taskforce of unions and employers has found. The Prime Minister's manufacturing taskforce, which...
Sydney Morning Herald
| 9 months ago
The taskforce assumes the high dollar is something manufacturers will have to learn to live with. Photo: Michele Mossop CMM The strength of the report by the Prime Minister's manufacturing taskforce is that it understands the issues well, and comes...
