Malcolm Turnbull
News and interviews on Malcolm Turnbull including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
NBN to confirm more construction delays, but analysts say Coalition win no threatThursday, 24 May 2012
The National Broadband Network is falling behind and has suffered a number of construction delays, chief executive Mike Quigley is expected to confirm in front of Parliament later tonight. ...
Conroy pushes for tax on tech giants
Wednesday, 23 May 2012
Federal Communications Minister Stephen Conroy has warned technology giants that the Federal Government will be coming after them, saying at the CeBIT conference in Sydney it has plans to start taxing Google and other international companies at a much higher ...
Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator shows signs of faltering recovery: Midday roundup
Monday, 21 May 2012
Economy-wide spending rose in April but at the slowest pace in seven months, raising questions about Australia's path of recovery. ...
Report puts NBN below South Korea in broadband world rankings, but experts say comparisons unjustified
Thursday, 10 February 2011
The Government's National Broadband Network has been slammed by a new index produced by The Economist magazine, which says it will cost more than 24 times that of similar networks built by other countries, including South Korea. ...
Telstra urges Parliament to pass telco reform quickly as Coalition backflips on opposition to new bill
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Telecommunications giant Telstra has urged Parliament to quickly pass legislation that will split the company's retail and wholesale divisions, saying laws must be created to allow construction of the NBN. ...
Liberals won’t pull down NBN
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Opposition communications spokesman Malcolm Turnbull has said the Liberal party won't pull down any existing NBN infrastructure if it wins the next election. ...
Turnbull must make the Government accountable for the NBN: Bartholomeusz
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Without necessarily disagreeing with my colleague Alan Kohler’s assessment of the politics of Malcolm Turnbull’s appointment as shadow minister for communications and broadband yesterday, Turnbull is indisputably right when he argues in his response that the ...
Turnbull will try to sway independents on NBN as new communications shadow
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Malcolm Turnbull will attempt to stop the roll-out of the National Broadband Network and any implementation of a mandatory filtering scheme as part of his new role as opposition communications spokesman, both he and Tony Abbott have affirmed. ...
The NBN battle could crush Malcolm Turnbull: Kohler
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
Tony Abbott has quite possibly given Malcolm Turnbull the worst job in the parliament. ...
BP agrees to $US20 billion compensation fund: Economy Roundup
Thursday, 17 June 2010
Oil giant BP has agreed to spend over $US20 billion in assisting the clean-up effort in the Gulf of Mexico, after some of the company's executives met with US president Barack Obama. ...
Banks & billionaires
Monday, 12 April 2010
Billionaires love sniffing around for bargains and there's no better time to do that than during a downturn, where assets – and in some cases entire industries – can become distressed. ...
Will Malcolm Turnbull become Australia’s most prominent angel investor?
Wednesday, 07 April 2010
Malcolm Turnbull's decision to quit politics after the next federal election and return to the business world should be music to the ears of Australia's small and medium tech companies – one of the countries more prominent angel investors is back in town. ...
Job ads up 1.8% in March, Turnbull to quit politics: Economy Roundup
Tuesday, 06 April 2010
Job advertisements have continued to increase as the economy recovers, with the latest figures from ANZ's monthly survey showing an increase of 1.8% in March due to significant labour demand. ...
How does Tony Abbot’s climate change plan compare with the Government’s? A SmartCompany Q&A
Wednesday, 03 February 2010
After dramatically grabbing the Liberal leadership from Malcolm Turnbull last year on the issue of climate change, Opposition leader Tony Abbott has unveiled his own plan to reduce Australia's carbon emissions by 5% by 2020. ...
Tony Abbott to announce Opposition climate change policy
Tuesday, 02 February 2010
Federal Opposition leader Tony Abbott has announced plans for a $2.5 billion emissions reduction fund in order to reduce carbon levels by 2020 and ensure consumers do not bear the burden of paying for climate change. ...
Australia needs to answer some big climate change questions: Gottliebsen
Thursday, 28 January 2010
The decision by the government to propose a 5 per cent emissions reduction, but to offer more cuts if other key countries take that step, shows that the environmental debate in Australia is maturing. Australia, with no nuclear generation and a major coal-driven ...
A wrap up of 2009
Tuesday, 22 December 2009
As 2009 draws to a close, SmartCompany's publisher Amanda Gome and I look back on the past year, with a lowdown on the economy, politics, industrial relations, growth and the impending skills shortage. ...
Failure at Copenhagen prompts Opposition attack on Government
Monday, 21 December 2009
The failure of delegates at the Copenhagen climate change summit to reach a binding resolution has fuelled Opposition attacks on prime minister Kevin Rudd, potentially threatening attempts to reintroduce an emissions trading scheme. ...
Why Rudd's the biggest loser: Kohler
Monday, 21 December 2009
There are few national leaders in the world who had more at stake in Copenhagen last week than Kevin Rudd. He and his government managed to manoeuvre themselves into having the most to lose if things didn't pan out – apart from the government of Denmark. ...
Back on the agenda
Wednesday, 09 December 2009
Descriptions of Tony Abbott's new cabinet as a lurch to the right are hardly surprising and not far off the mark – after all, many of the most hardline characters of the Howard Government have suddenly been thrust back into the spotlight. ...
