Tag: Kevin Rudd

The Queensland Resources Council (QRC) is meeting with Queensland Premier Anna Bligh and Treasurer Andrew Fraser to discuss their opposition to Kevin Rudd’s Super Profit Tax.

Tony Abbott has rejected Kevin Rudd’s plans for a Super Profit Tax on miners after meeting with mining executives in Canberra today.

Tony Abbott’s Liberal Party is in an election winning position, with Newspoll showing the Liberal/National Coalition leading Labor 51 to 49 percent on a two party preferred basis.

The lowest paid workers will lose out under the Henry Review superannuation changes, with employers forced to cut wages to pay the increased superannuation rate.

Tony Abbott has come under fire from multiple fronts after yesterday declaring that he would scrap the National Broadband Network (NBN) if he was to become Prime Minister.

The Independent Pricing and Regulatory Tribunal (IPART), New South Wales’ pricing regulator has committed the state to significant increases in electricity prices despite Kevin Rudd pushing back an emissions trading scheme (ETS) until 2013.

Kevin Rudd’s grand plans for a National Broadband Network (NBN) will come to nothing with Tony Abbott preparing to slash Government spending if the Liberal Party wins the next federal election.

NSW Labor’s Kristina Keneally is dominating the Liberal’s Barry O’Farrell as preferred premier for the state, but seems destined to be a popular leader of a losing party if the latest Newspoll numbers hold true.

The former Head of the nation’s largest employment company, Drake Personnel, has called the Coalitions developing position on cutting the dole for those under 30 “absolutely ridiculous”.

Australians spent over $790 million on overseas gambling sites in 2008, sending with it any possibility to earn tax revenue for Australia due to laws restricting gambling sites in Australia.