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28 July 2010 : BIG PROJECTS GO WHERE THE PEOPLE - AND THE VOTES - ARE
You can't accuse Auditor-General Ian McPhee of going soft on the government. Two reports issued by his team show the government playing fast and loose with its own rules in allocating money for infrastructure projects. |
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26 July 2010 : NOT SO BRIGHT: SUNSHINE STATE ECONOMY COMES LAST
Resource-rich Queensland has maintained its wooden-spoon position among the states, ranking equal last in a survey of state economies. |
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24 July 2010 : RUDD'S $2BN FOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS BLASTED
THE Rudd government handed $2.2 billion in taxpayer funds to infrastructure projects that its own adviser had questioned. In a damning report released yesterday, the Australian National Audit Office said six rail, road and port infrastructure projects announced in the 2009-10 budget, as well as two rail projects funded in this year's budget, had not made Infrastructure Australia's short list of priority projects. |
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11 June 2010 : NEW ZEALAND INFRASTRUCTURE FORUM, HELD IN WELLINGTON ON 8 MARCH 2010
Queensland and New Zealand have much in common – culturally, socially and the extensive trade and business links between the two jurisdictions. |
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27 May 2010 : IAQ WELCOMES THE RELEASE OF THE STATE GOVERNMENT RESPONSES TO THE QUEENSLAND GROWTH MANAGEMENT SUMMIT
The Infrastructure Association of Queensland, Queensland’s peak infrastructure industry body, today welcomed the release by the Queensland Premier Anna Bligh of the government’s responses to the Queensland Growth Management Summit. |
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30 April 2010 : SCRAP REGO: PUSH TO CHARGE DRIVERS PER KM
A key infrastructure lobby group has called for road taxes such as registration to be scrapped in favour of charging motorists for each kilometre they drive, just ahead of the release of the long-awaited Henry tax review. |
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30 April 2010 : PRIME MINISTER KEVIN RUDD, SPEECH TO THE NSW BUSINESS CHAMBER, SYDNEY, 29 APRIL 2010
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd, Speech to the NSW Business Chamber, Sydney, 29 April 2010 I acknowledge the First Australians on whose land we meet, and whose cultures we celebrate as among the oldest continuing cultures in human history. Thank you to ACCI for your assistance in organising this event. The Government enjoys a strong relationship with ACCI. We appreciate your robust contribution to the national economic debate and we’ve taken some good ideas from you – not least of which was the Investment Allowance for Business which helped support Australian businesses to grow and invest through the global recession. |
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19 April 2010 : AUSTRALIA INFRASTRUCTURE CHANGES MAY REDUCE ROLE OF PPP AS INFLATION PAYERS
Private sector consortia bidding for infrastructure projects in Australia are increasingly asking state governments inviting public-private participation (PPP) to underwrite payments over the life of the concession, as their appetite for demand-risk under the traditional user-pay principle has fallen significantly. At the same time, state governments are also showing a preference towards paying the concessionaire fixed financing structure, instead of linking their payment to the consumer price index. |
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19 April 2010 : COMING OUT SWINGING
The election campaign is running, with both Rudd and Abbott making policy mistakes and thinking that the business of business is their business. |
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19 April 2010 : OUR OUTER SUBURBS ARE POVERTY TRAPS
MELBOURNE is developing poverty-stricken ghettos in the outer suburbs and a growing rich-poor divide, a shock new Melbourne University study has found. |
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