Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | yesterday
THE Federal Government is poised to raise the level at which it guarantees consumer bank deposits after Kevin Rudd held a crisis meeting in Canberra.
The Age (Free subscription) | yesterday
After a horror week that ended with the loss of $90 billion from the value of the Australian sharemarket on Friday, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd yesterday called the urgent meeting of senior ministers and bureaucrats to thrash out a plan to help insulate Australia from the turmoil.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
KEVIN RUDD and his chief of staff, David Epstein, have parted company, resulting in the promotion of a 29-year-old to the Prime Minister's most senior adviser.
armagnac'd (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
Quiggin is right, Turnbull is better than Rudd and Rudd is pissfarting around on this issue. Savings accounts are the basic place people have to put their money. Philosophically, they are the place money goes when we do not want to take any risks. They are not seen as investments; interest is useless on such accounts most of the time anyway. The public do not accept any risk there and...
Ain't it Cool News (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Many of you have asked me about a stand-by line. We will be doing a stand-by line for this event, and assuming there are a couple of extra seats, we'll let those folks in just before the Q&A starts. Another good reason for those of you who actually win to get there early--you might lose your seat to a stand-by person. The event is taking place Monday, October 13 at the AMC River East Theaters in Chicago,...
The Australian (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Prime Minister Kevin Rudd today said that local banks remained in first class shape but the global financial crisis was affecting confidence across the world, including in Australia. Mr Rudd said Australia was better positioned than practically every other country to see its way through the crisis. But, he said, the government had decided on three further measures to maintain continued...
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | yesterday
PENSIONERS would "bear their part of the sacrifices ahead" but not if they were the first group targeted in an economic crisis, a leading advocate says.
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
In June, the worry was still only that his secretaries didn’t want to work for the insufferable Kevin Rudd: The Sydney Morning Herald believes…
Peter Martin (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
A lot of it. I feel glad to live in Australia (after having had some doubts on Friday) PRIME MINISTER - MEDIA RELEASE - GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS - CANBERRA - 12 OCTOBER 2008 Global financial markets are experiencing some of the most challenging conditions ever witnessed. In recent days, as global financial conditions have deteriorated markedly, governments around the world have taken
News.com.au (Free subscription) | yesterday
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd and key ministers yesterday resolved to raise the $20,000 limit at which bank deposits are protected by the Federal Government.
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's chief of staff, David Epstein, has quit his role and will take on a job outside government, it was announced this afternoon.
Sydney Morning Herald (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
AUSTRALIA will reassess its commitment to Afghanistan next April amid growing evidence the war there is going badly, senior Government sources say.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd's chief of staff David Epstein has quit only weeks after the ALP national secretary also walked.
Courrier Mail (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
PRIME Minister Rudd has reassured the nation that its banks are among the safest in the world as panic trading struck the Sydney stock exchange.
Andrew Bolt (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Michael Costa, the former Treasurer of the NSW Labor Government, says Kevin Rudd is…
