Tony Abbott
News and interviews on Tony Abbott including trends, features, blogs and community conversations from an Australian business perspective.
Myer chief defends new profit guidance: Midday roundupFriday, 25 May 2012
Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes has defended his move to lower the full-year profit guidance for the department store giant, saying the company would not make further spending cuts. ...
Qantas cuts 500 jobs and splits into two arms: Midday roundup
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Qantas has announced a major restructure, which will see it split its operations into separate domestic and international businesses with their own management. ...
Medical co-operative collapses with $2 million in claims against it
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
A controversial medical co-operative has been placed into administration with creditors to decide next week whether the business continues or is liquidated. ...
Abbott "gets" small business with budget promise to cut $1 billion in business red tape
Friday, 11 May 2012
Opposition Leader Tony Abbott's response last night to the Federal Government's budget showed that he understood small business, according to the Council of Small Business Australia. ...
How Clive Palmer funds his amazing adventures
Monday, 07 May 2012
Clive Palmer's incredible year just keeps getting more and more incredible. Just months after apparently turning the course of the Queensland election, forming a breakaway soccer organisation and attempting to sue the Hyatt hotel chain, Clive has made headlines ...
Carbon tax uncertainty should end
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
The excitement of getting the carbon tax through the lower house of Parliament seems to have done magical things. ...
Tony Abbott’s SME push
Friday, 16 September 2011
I am not sure if you've noticed but Opposition Leader Tony Abbott has spent a lot of time in the last month visiting small businesses and getting on the tools. ...
Abbott defends lack of detail in budget reply, calls for another election
Friday, 13 May 2011
The Opposition has defended the lack of detail in its budget response to the Parliament last night, saying the Coalition will deliver more details down the track and calling for another election to rid Australia of the "failed experiment" of a minority Labor ...
Contractor compliance nightmare will hurt the Government: Gottliebsen
Thursday, 12 May 2011
When Assistant Treasurer Bill Shorten was addressing some 700 Canberra accountants and other business people at the traditional after budget breakfast in the Great Hall, he went out of his way to emphasise that good government involved doing research before ...
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”. ...
Why Julia Gillard’s levy is completely unnecessary: Kohler
Thursday, 27 January 2011
The market seemed to like President Obama's State of the Union address, taking the Dow Jones above 12,000 this morning for the first time since before the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. However, like Julia Gillard, he is heading off in the wrong direction. ...
Business will keep paying for John Howard’s big IR mistake: Gottliebsen
Thursday, 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. ...
Inflation figures lower than expected, interest rate fears ease: Economy roundup
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Fears of another rate rise next week appear to have been put to rest, with the Australian Bureau of Statistics revealing inflation rose by a lower-than-expected 0.7% during the September quarter, putting yearly inflation at 2.8% in the 12 months to Septemb ...
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. ...
Parties prepare to unveil ministries as mining debate tax rolls on
Thursday, 09 September 2010
Labor and the Coalition are expected to reveal the make-ups of their ministries in the coming days, as debate continues to rage about when Labor will present its mining tax to the Parliament, and exactly what it will look like. ...
The Opposition must get behind tax reform too: Kohler
Thursday, 09 September 2010
The most important thing to come out of the past two weeks of horse-trading has been the plan to hold a tax summit. Or at least it could be. It could also be a complete waste of time. ...
ELECTION 2010: Independents expected to decide tomorrow on new government
Monday, 06 September 2010
The exhausting waiting game that is federal politics appears to have at least one more day to run, with independents Bob Katter, Rob Oakeshott and Tony Windsor expected to announce tomorrow whether they will side with Labor or the Coalition to form minority ...
ELECTION 2010: Tony Abbott defends $7 billion costs gaps, claims surpluses will still be bigger than Labor
Thursday, 02 September 2010
Opposition Tony Abbott has defended his ability to manage the economy, saying a Coalition government will deliver "substantially larger surpluses than Labor" despite an apparent $7 billion black hole in its costings. ...
ELECTION 2010: Greens sign agreement to back Labor
Wednesday, 01 September 2010
The Greens have formally moved to back Labor's bid to form a minority government, with Greens lower house MP Adam Bandt signing an agreement with Prime Minister Julia Gillard. ...
ELECTION 2010: Coalition moves ahead in two-party-preferred vote, increased pressure on independents
Tuesday, 31 August 2010
The Coalition may have moved a step closer to forming a minority government this morning after the latest election tallies show the Coalition has now moved past Labor in the all-important two-party-preferred vote. ...
