Julie Bishop

Billions more to fight crisis

Anne Davies in Washington and Phillip Coorey AUSTRALIA will join the other G20 countries in a new round of stimulatory spending after the world's 20 largest economies vowed to work together to tackle the worst global economic...

Govt May Dip Into Budget Surplus Again-Tanner

CANBERRA—What's left of the budget surplus could soon go as the Federal Government considers a second spending spree to boost the economy. The Government last month announced a $10.4 billion economic stimulus package, cutting...

Watch out for Bishop's axe

DEPUTY Opposition leader Julie Bishop has joked that she might take an axe to her critics after revealing she once did so against her sisters. Ms Bishop recently told the Network Ten's Good News Week program that when her...

Govt urged to put jobs ahead of ETS (ABC)

The Federal Opposition says the Government should prioritise jobs ahead of introducing an emissions trading scheme (ETS), and that the Government has "taken its eye off the ball" on job creation. The pulp and paper industry has...

No time for a wannabe

Dennis Shanahan | November 14, 2008 Article from: The Australian JULIE Bishop is politically damaged goods. The Coalition's Treasury spokeswoman has lost credibility and lacks parliamentary authority at a time when credentials...

Bishop denies plagiarism claim

Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop has rejected the Government's claim that she failed to attribute information in a 1999 speech. Small Business Minister Craig Emerson told Parliament yesterday that Ms Bishop had been caught...

Rate cuts & #39;likely & #39; after confidence sags

Rate cuts 'likely' after confidence sags Business confidence has slumped to its lowest level on record, fuelling speculation the Reserve Bank will continue to take a hatchet to its cash rate in the coming months. The RBA has...

Swan tries to downplay CPI gaffe (AAP)

Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan has downplayed a gaffe he made last week when he could not remember a key economic forecast for inflation. It was not that many months ago the Rudd government talked incessantly about the threat of...

Car rescue package won't protect industry: Opposition

The Federal Government has accused the Opposition of trying to drum up negative comment on its $6.2 billion car industry assistance package. The Federal Opposition says the package, announced today to help car manufacturers...

Rudd grilled in Parliament over G20 leak

The Federal Opposition finally had a chance today to ask the Prime Minister directly about his controversial phone call with US President, George Bush, but got no closer to establishing how the details of the call were leaked....

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