Tag: Joe Hockey

Ambassador to the US contacted the FBI about George Papadopoulos's alleged comments to Australia's High Commissioner in the UK, revealing links to Russia.

SPECIAL REPORT FROM WASHINGTON DC: "It seems that Australia too is sadly moving to the right, although not as far as the US has. We need to take a lesson from what happened here." - Aussie expat on Women's March.

Sparking controversy; Joe Hockey's comments to first-time home owners complaining about property prices is simple, "Get a good job that pays good money."

On paying for the war against Islamic State in Iraq, Australia's prime minister says, “We think we can afford it.”

Clive Palmer has commended Joe Hockey's leadership in managing the budget but remains unsympathetic to the government's plans.

Treasurer Joe Hockey is not worried about the latest opinion poll, saying the government was elected to fix the economy.

Joe Hockey has taken Fairfax Media to court over a front-page story suggesting the federal treasurer was for sale.

With the federal government facing protesting premiers, street marches and a drop in the polls, Tony Abbott and Joe Hockey step up their budget pitch.

"The age of entitlement is over. It has to be replaced, not with an age of austerity, but with an age of opportunity," Hockey says as he delivers his maiden federal budget.

Treasurer Joe Hockey expects his first budget to be criticised if people just look at their own interest rather than for the good of the nation.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has hosed down claims lobbyists are buying influence within the Liberals.

The first formal meeting of this weekend's G20 event, hosted by Joe Hockey, got under way with a gathering of world business leaders with the B20 business forum focussing on jobs and growth.

Kevin Rudd keeps a low profile on his last day in Parliament.

The British supermodel and the Australian Prime Minister do not appear to have a lot in common. One is about to pose nude for the 60th anniversary of Playboy. The other is Tony Abbott. But the unlikely pair share similar mind-sets when it comes to talking, or rather not talking, ...

Prime Minister-elect Tony Abbott has announced his new cabinet and ministry line-up in Canberra, and has come under fire for including only one woman — Julie Bishop — on the team.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has announced $31.6 billion of promised budget cuts, but he remains elusive on the timing of a promised budget surplus.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | American pop star Katy Perry blindsided Opposition Tony Abbott on Australian radio yesterday with questions regarding his policy on gay marriage.

AUSTRALIAN ELECTION 13 | Shadow treasurer Joe Hockey says the coalition needs to carefully consider the risks to the economic outlook.

Three of the major banks have said they'll cut interest rates after the Reserve Bank of Australia dropped the official cash rate by 25 basis points to a new low of 2.5 per cent.

A new federal tobacco excise is set to hit Australian smokers’ hip-pockets to the tune of $1 per cigarette by 2016.

Corruption findings by the ICAC against two former NSW Labor ministers, Eddie Obeid and Ian MacDonald, have been a gift to the pre-election campaign of Tony Abbott.

OPINION | Kevin Rudd told media in Papua New Guinea that he had "survived Kokoda", however his most gruelling challenge may be yet to come. In the lead-up to the 2013 federal election, Rudd's biggest nemesis might be his own mouth.

Recalling his own ridicule at the hands of Julia Gillard, shadow treasurer Joe Hockey has rejected prime ministerial criticism of the Liberal Party.

Prime Minister Julia Gillard says a menu circulating on the internet from a Liberal National Party fundraising menu is “grossly sexist and offensive”, and the Opposition should disendorse former Howard government minister Mal Brough as the candidate for the Queensland seat of Fisher.