Joe Hockey
News and interviews on Joe Hockey including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
ACCC investigates petrol price collusionFriday, 04 May 2012
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has commenced a formal investigation into price information sharing arrangements in the retail petrol industry. ...
Julia Gillard to push ahead with flood levy plan despite Opposition threats to block move
Thursday, 27 January 2011
Prime Minster Julia Gillard has announced the Government will introduce a special flood levy to pay for that she says “may prove to be the most expensive natural disaster our nation has ever seen”. ...
Shareholders still don’t understand the pain of Wayne Swan’s banking reforms: Gottliebsen
Monday, 10 January 2011
It's amazing what can happen to a treasurer in the space of half a year or so. In the first half of 2010 Wayne Swan announced what I believed to be one of the worst thought out taxes ever imposed on the Australian people – the original mining tax. A half a ...
Commonwealth Bank’s admission shows why too much banking competition can be a bad thing: Bartholomeusz
Thursday, 09 December 2010
If they haven't already, the members of the Senate committee should ask RAMS Home Loans founder John Kinghorn to appear before it to explain why RAMS, followed subsequently by most of the non-bank lenders, hit a brick wall and effectively collapsed at the very ...
Happy days
Friday, 29 October 2010
Smart companies will remember the RBA reaction to last year’s surge in consumer spending – a series of rate hikes – to ensure that happy days do not turn out to presage an outburst of inflation. As the cost of imports continues to hold at record low rates and ...
Banks go on the attack as Senate approves banking inquiry
Friday, 29 October 2010
Banking chief Mike Smith has slammed independent and Opposition senators who have succeeded in their bid to launch an inquiry into the banking sector, despite angry protests from the big four banks. ...
Good time to sell?
Friday, 22 October 2010
Clearly the household sector is worried that the RBA is going to raise interest rates to make everyone aware that the mining magnates are on a run to China and lending to smart companies is going to get tougher. ...
ELECTION 2010: Coalition promises to provide tax receipts for government spending as Abbott’s “win” in town hall talkfest is probed
Thursday, 12 August 2010
What's an election without a good prop? The Opposition has again attempted to attack the Government for its wasteful spending practices by promising to produce personal tax receipt statements to show individual tax payers where their tax dollars have been spent. ...
Abbott’s NBN confusion: Kohler
Monday, 09 August 2010
The national broadband network appears to have vanished from Tony Abbott's post-election "to do" list. ...
ELECTION 2010: Grant experts criticise Abbott’s vow to kill off Enterprise Connect
Wednesday, 21 July 2010
Government grant experts have criticised Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's vow to kill off the Government's $50 million-a-year Enterprise Connect program, saying it is just starting to gain traction with medium-sized companies and deliver real benefits to growing ...
Government accused of “monumental deceit” over mining tax deal
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
The Opposition has attacked the Government's new mining tax deal after Treasury Secretary Ken Henry admitted the Federal Government had assumed a significant rise in commodity prices to justify its claim that the new watered-down tax deal would only result ...
Why Julia Gillard needs a mini-budget to clean up Swan’s mess: Kohler
Friday, 25 June 2010
Julia Gillard's biggest and most immediate problem is her deputy, Wayne Swan, and specifically the budget he brought down six weeks ago. ...
Coalition promises to take axe to Rudd Government promises, including business tax cuts
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey has unveiled a plan he says will save the Federal Budget $46.7 billion, but will also reverse the Rudd Government's plan to cut the corporate tax rate and deliver immediate asset write-offs for small businesses. ...
Minding Abbott’s business
Monday, 19 April 2010
Today's opinion polls had mixed results for the Liberal Party. While they are closing the gap on Rudd's Labor Government on a two-party-preferred basis, Tony Abbott's ranking as preferred prime minister isn't improving. ...
High cost of help
Thursday, 21 January 2010
Yesterday afternoon we got an email from Federal Industry Minister Kim Carr, claiming the Liberals were set to cut industry assistance for the automotive and textile, clothing and footwear sectors, following comments from Shadow Treasurer, Joe Hockey. ...
Tax tempters
Monday, 04 January 2010
Happy New Year! Like many business owners and managers around the country, SmartCompany is back on deck today and looking forward to an exciting, successful and prosperous year ahead. ...
Tony Abbott announces front bench, Ciobo replaced by Billson as small business spokesperson
Tuesday, 08 December 2009
Federal opposition leader Tony Abbott has announced the small business ministry has been dumped from the front bench, with Steve Ciobo to be replaced by sustainable development spokesman Bruce Billson. ...
Tony Abbott elected leader of the Liberal Party
Tuesday, 01 December 2009
Tony Abbott has been elected leader of the Liberal Party after beating Malcolm Turnbull by one vote in a party-room vote. ...
Joe Hockey emerges as favourite in battle for the Liberal Party leadership
Monday, 30 November 2009
Opposition treasury spokesman Joe Hockey could become the new leader of the Liberal Party tomorrow, despite previously saying he would support current leader Malcolm Turnbull. The potential takeover comes after Tony Abbott, who resigned his front bench position ...
Liberal Party in meltdown as Joe Hockey emerges as new leadership contender
Friday, 27 November 2009
Federal Liberal Party leader Malcolm Turnbull appears certain to face a fresh leadership challenge on Monday after a number of senior Liberals resigned from Shadow front bench. But the question remains: who will take on Turnbull? ...
