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27 Apr 2008, 7:36 pm
As foreshadowed earlier this year, the Rudd Government has announced a package of measures to further amend the Trade Practices Act 1974 including the predatory pricing amendments passed late last year The Government's amendments will: ensure that victims of predatory pricing will not need to prove that the predator has the ability to recoup losses after participating in an anticompetitive below cost pricing strategy. [read post]
22 Apr 2008, 3:55 pm
The Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Chris Bowen MP, has announced that the Rudd Government will change the foreign investment policy to extend the timeframe for the development of vacant commercial land from 12 months to 5 years. [read post]
19 Apr 2008, 8:11 pm
The final verdict on the value of the Australia 2020 Summit probably won't be known until the Rudd Government delivers its response to the ideas later this year. [read post]
17 Apr 2008, 10:50 pm
The cost of removing legal discrimination against gays and lesbians is less than half the amount claimed by the Howard government, but the Rudd Government is still undecided about whether to [read post]
14 Apr 2008, 3:41 pm
But Langenbach gave credence to TEN’s general manager, Derek Rudd, who testified that temporary heating and cooling could be put in place “fairly quickly. [read post]
12 Apr 2008, 9:00 pm
Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd made a more watered-down pronouncement -- but stronger than San Francisco's actions -- that the torch guards generally will stay on a bus, but will be permitted to assist with such tasks as passing the torch (how, and what will be their other permitted tasks?) [read post]
11 Apr 2008, 3:29 pm
According to a new report published this month in the International Journal of Obesity, society is less tolerant of weight gain with women than men from the Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity at Yale University. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 2:55 pm
Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine has told the Courier-Mail that the Queensland Government welcomes the push by the Rudd government for sweeping uniform property laws for de facto couples- whether straight or same-sex - across Australia, and to be brought under the jurisdiction of the Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 2:55 pm
Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine has told the Courier-Mail that the Queensland Government welcomes the push by the Rudd government for sweeping uniform property laws for de facto couples- whether straight or same-sex - across Australia, and to be brought under the jurisdiction of the Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court. [read post]
10 Apr 2008, 2:46 pm
Queensland Attorney-General Kerry Shine has told the Courier-Mail that the Queensland Government welcomes the push by the Rudd government for sweeping uniform property laws for de facto couples- whether straight or same-sex - across Australia, and to be brought under the jurisdiction of the Family Court and Federal Magistrates Court. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 3:39 pm
Senator Nick Sherry, Federal Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law has announced that the Rudd Government will be following through on its commitment to remove discrimination against same sex couples in superannuation where one of them is a Commonwealth public servant. [read post]
3 Apr 2008, 2:52 am
The Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law's speech to IFSA highlighted the following: The Government plans to ensure that mortgages and investment loans will be regulated under uniform national legislation and that mortgage brokers, non-ADI and ADI lenders will be subject to nationally consistent licensing, conduct and advice provisions. [read post]
31 Mar 2008, 12:04 am
Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Christopher Cox and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd have announced that the SEC, the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) and the Australian Treasury Department have begun formal discussions to consider a mutual recognition arrangement for the two nations' securities markets. [read post]
16 Mar 2008, 7:17 am
Mark Davis has a nice piece in the Herald today questioning the angst expressed by so many people about Rudd's election promise to cut taxes in an inflationary environment.Davis points out that these announced tax 'cuts' (and the Howard government's cuts of the past few years) are not necessarily cuts at all: the stated amount of the cut is the predicted reduction in the amount of tax collected because of the change to tax rates, compared to what would have been… [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 1:55 pm
It was said that Kevin Rudd was Howard lite. [read post]
9 Mar 2008, 4:40 am
It was said that Kevin Rudd was Howard lite. [read post]
28 Feb 2008, 7:07 am
One of the more significant facts in the case was that Rudd conceded that the contract was formed between Rudd and Tacoma Fixture when Tacoma Fixture would make telephone calls to Rudd to order products and Rudd would agree to deliver the products. [read post]
18 Feb 2008, 12:39 am
Australian satirist Hugh Atkin, whose online YouTube videos of Kevin "Chairman" Rudd garnered a strong following during the last Australian election, has turned his attention to the US presidential race. [read post]
17 Feb 2008, 11:40 am
Assistant Treasurer and Minister for Competition Policy and Consumer Affairs, Chris Bowen, has announced Mr Pat Walker as the Rudd Government's nominee for the new Petrol Commissioner. [read post]
16 Feb 2008, 9:48 pm
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Rudd Government is considering introducing a three-strikes policy against computer users who download songs illegally:AS THE internet threatens to kill the established music industry, the Rudd Government is considering a three-strikes policy against computer users who download songs illegally. [read post]
