The Coalition should give up — its best and brightest have left politics and now work for Kevin Rudd. And Rudd’s power as national leader now looks unassailable.
Future fund
Crikey Says: Rudd leads the nation, not the ALP
Coorey: Another day, another job for old Lib enemies
So, Kevin Rudd has continued his tradition of giving plum roles to former foes by handing Peter Costello a spot on the Future Fund board. It paints him as bipartisan, but it’s also a bit hypocritical, writes Phillip Coorey.
Oz Post and Medibank the cream of the public sector earners
The high salary earners of the public sector are streets ahead of the best paid politicians, write Bernard Keane and Crikey intern Emily Finlay.
The remarkable remuneration of Suncorp’s John Mulcahy
Why is outgoing Suncorp CEO John Mulcahy still on the board of the Future Fund? Asks Bernard Keane.
Bligh singing from Kirner’s debt sheet
The parallels between the tanking Queensland economy and Victoria’s in the dark days of the early 1990s are striking, says Stephen Mayne.
The Future Fund — why they can’t just give it back
Let’s accept that, as good “fiscal conservatives”, the government cannot just “give this money back”. Then how are they going to spend it? Writes Peter Saunders.
Solving Swan’s $100b super liability discrepancy
In all the budget coverage so far, where is the story on the blowout in super liabilities, asks Stephen Mayne?
Another tick for Costello financial management. Not
Market talk says that the Future Fund has dropped close to $10 billion amid the recent turmoil. Is Peter Costello to blame? Christian Kerr investigates.
Yet another Future Fund accounting rort from Cossie
The Future Fund is already being obsessively secretive about its activities as we still don’t know exactly how much of its $50 billion-plus in cash has been deployed and in what asset classes, writes Stephen Mayne.
