Australia

Kevin Rudd’s new Chief of Staff has good links with NZ, even if his boss doesn’t

Kevin Rudd’s new chief of staff Jim Murphy has strong links with New Zealand’s policy and business elites, even if his boss doesn’t. Murphy, an Australian Treasury deputy secretary, was at Peter Costello’s side when the former Australian Liberal Treasurer co-launched the Australasia single market process with former NZ Finance Minister Michael Cullen a decade ago. A taciturn man, he …

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Michelle Grattan: Turnbull sees election as presidential Rudd versus team Abbott

With Tony Abbott lagging as preferred PM against Kevin Rudd, Liberal frontbencher Malcolm Turnbull has cast the election as a contest between a presidential pitch and “a traditional cabinet-based, consultative team approach to government”. In a speech titled “Leadership in times of Uncertainty”, Turnbull said: “We do not see this election as a presidential contrast, a contest between Kevin Rudd …

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Rudd wants China to finally complete its FTA with Australia

newzealandinc.com couldn’t resist giving KRudd’s famous video one final airing after the Aussie Prime Minister called on “our friends in Beijing” to get on with the FTA with Australia. (The amusing video was leaked by the Gillard camp when they set out to roll Rudd in 2010). But that was then. Rudd has now called on China – Australia’s largest …

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Australia looks at evolving Aussie Fonterra

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Day One: “It’s like ‘Gone with the Weennd’ except the Shelia’s at the bottom of the stairs” – Aussie journalist

TV3’s Paddy Gower scooped the pix for the Gillard kiss (double-cheeks if you have to know) after John Key swept down the staircase at the Boao Sofitel hotel straight into the Australian Prime Minister’s open-armed greeting. The photo-op had been careful stage-managed by Julia Gillard’s PR who officiously told the NZ journalist delegation accompanying the PM to the prestigious Boao …

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Wellington Business Welcomes Contact Centres Australia

The second announcement in a week of new companies setting up in Wellington is further proof that the city and its environs are increasingly attractive base for business, says Wellington Employers’ Chamber of Commerce, Chief Executive Raewyn Bleakley. “The decision by Contact Centres Australia to choose the Wellington CBD to open their first New Zealand contact centre, creating] about 100 local …

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APN’s 2nd largest shareholder wants CEO and chairman out – won’t support capital raising

The Australian reports that APN News & Media’s second-largest shareholder, Simon Marais, supports the potential resignations of the company’s chief executive and chairman, and will not support a proposed capital raising. “It’s better that they go because it’s a silly thing to do … putting the cart before the horse,”  Marais, the managing director of fund manager Allan Gray, told …

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