John Howard
News and interviews on John Howard including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Business will keep paying for John Howard’s big IR mistake: GottliebsenThursday, 11 November 2010
John Howard was a good judge of Australian politics for decades. In his KGB interview he reveals two mistakes that have changed the face of Australia. One was made by himself and the other by Kevin Rudd. ...
THE LIGHTER SIDE: Were you paying attention?
Friday, 29 October 2010
John Clarke and Bryan Dawe want to know whether you have been paying attention this week and have a special quiz on John Howard, Joe Hockey and the ASX. And there's a great prize to the winner. ...
Government’s attack on small business could cost Rudd the election: Gottliesen
Wednesday, 03 March 2010
One man has the potential to single handedly make Tony Abbott Prime Minister of Australia – Assistant Treasurer Nick Sherry. ...
Can Tony Abbott really dodge carbon tax? Kohler
Friday, 04 December 2009
New Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's sudden and completely leftfield declaration that his solution to climate change will not involve any carbon tax or emissions trading means we are really in for an interesting debate on this subject next year. ...
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? ...
The emission trading scheme will be a disaster for business: Gottliebsen
Friday, 27 November 2009
Finally the full horror of Kevin Rudd's carbon trading legislation for business is starting to dawn on at least some Liberal Party politicians. In the National Party Barnaby Joyce was way ahead of them. The more I look at the legislation the more I realise ...
Why Sol Trujillo should be sued for stuffing up Telstra: Kohler
Thursday, 17 September 2009
The story of how Telstra lost its network is one of hubris and bungling, of misreading the play in Australia by men from the US who thought they knew everything already. Shareholders should never forget this. ...
Political parties should stop charging business for access to ministers: Kohler
Monday, 10 August 2009
Last week I bumped into a government relations manager of a major company, who paid $10,000 to attend the ALP conference. ...
Building unions back in charge: Gottliebsen
Tuesday, 07 April 2009
We are now seeing the first signs of the cost to the nation of Prime Minister Kevin Rudd spending so much time on global affairs. ...
Court slams event promoters who falsely claimed John Howard endorsed expos
Wednesday, 04 March 2009
The Federal Court in Perth has declared two event promoters engaged in misleading and deceptive conduct after they falsely claimed politicians, including then prime minister John Howard, had endorsed their mining expo events. ...
Rudd Government’s Fair Work means no work: Evans
Monday, 16 February 2009
The inconvenient truth of work is that one doesn’t have a job unless our employer is successful. Of course it is well accepted Australia’s wealth was created from the sweat of many a worker; and it is also equally true to suggest it would not have been created ...
Retail lobby groups at war over anti-Muslim comments
Friday, 16 January 2009
Comments by a Brisbane radio announcer that full face hijabs could be used as a potential form of disguise have been backed up by the head of the Queensland Retail Traders and Shopkeepers Association, sparking outcry from community groups and even rival l ...
The swinging pendulum of workplace relations
Monday, 15 December 2008
From a position that many saw as too far to the right, IR can now be accused of having too far a left wing bias. There is an important lesson here for employers, says ANDREW DOUGLAS, about managing the physics-like machinations of workplace law. ...
iPhone, Harvey Norman and Kevin Rudd top Google search results
Wednesday, 03 December 2008
Retailer Harvey Norman, Apple’s iPhone, US president-elect Barack Obama and Olympic swimmer Stephanie Rice have one thing in common – they top Google’s most popular search terms for 2008. ...
Inside the new Fair Work bill
Tuesday, 02 December 2008
It was always expected that Labor would change the IR landscape, and aspects of its workplace changes have been previewed – but there are still some surprises, and every employer will need to know them. By PETER VITALE ...
Why internet filtering is bad for business
Tuesday, 18 November 2008
The Federal Government’s proposed internet filter will be a tax on Australian business and do little to fix the problem of online nasties. PAUL WALLBANK ...
Malcolm Turnbull topples Brendan Nelson as Liberal leader
Tuesday, 16 September 2008
Malcolm Turnbull has seized the Liberal leadership from Brendan Nelson after a surprise party-room vote in Canberra this morning. ...
The real reason Peter Costello has dragged out his departure – his book launch
Thursday, 11 September 2008
At last Peter Costello has declared his hand. He won’t run for leadership and he is planning to leave politics. Critics point out that this has been his agenda all along, but he has kept the nation, his party and his supporters guessing to garner publicit ...
Craig Emerson dismisses concerns about unions representing independent contractors
Thursday, 11 September 2008
The Federal Minister for Small Business, Independent Contractors and the Service Economy, Craig Emerson, has dismissed concerns that unions may coerce independent contractors into collective bargaining as “alarmist”. ...
Climate issues could give Costello his chance: Gottliebsen
Wednesday, 27 August 2008
Peter Costello and carbon credits were two areas of intense debate in private discussions at Australian Leadership Retreat at Hayman Island. ...
