Joe Hockey

Intruder Pete to shake up Coalition

news.com.au     22 hrs ago   8 related          

HOUSE RULES: Christian Kerr | July 26, 2008 BIG Brother may have vanished from our screens, but a bunch of misfits, oddballs and exhibitionists are about to be lumped together under an intense media gaze. Federal Coalition MPs...                

Coalition won't be pressured on emissions scheme: Hockey (ABC)

yahoo.com     Jul 24, 2008   16 related          

Federal Opposition frontbencher Joe Hockey says the Coalition will not be forced into declaring when it believes an emissions trading scheme should start. Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson said yesterday that the Coalition would...                

Alco-pop tax to blame for inflation: Opposition

abc.net.au     Jul 24, 2008          

TONY EASTLEY: Opposition frontbencher Joe Hockey says the inflation figures are a worry and it's proof the Rudd Government is not doing its job. On another front Joe Hockey says the Coalition won't be forced into revealing...                

Hospital Infection Rates may be Exposed Under Funding Deal

epochtimes.com     Jul 22, 2008   9 related          

CANBERRA—The public may be able to check infection rates at individual hospitals under proposed funding deals between the states and the commonwealth. Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon discussed a set of 40 benchmarks,...                

Govt rejects 'ludicrous' Medicare compo demands (ABC)

yahoo.com     Jul 22, 2008   3 related          

The Federal Government has dismissed call for immediate compensation to the states for the extra burden which is expected to flow from proposed changes to the Medicare surcharge. The legislation to lift the threshold for the...                

AMA's super clinic concern

news.com.au     Jul 20, 2008          

DOCTORS fear the Rudd Government's planned GP Super Clinics have been located according to political need rather than Tasmania's health needs. The Tasmanian branch of the AMA yesterday backed a call from a leading health...                

Hockey push for Howard man for Mayo

news.com.au     Jul 19, 2008   31 related          

FEDERAL Liberal heavyweight Joe Hockey has thrown his support behind Jamie Briggs's campaign for preselection in Mayo. The party faithful will today select a candidate to stand in the blue-ribbon Adelaide Hills seat vacated by...                

Flip-flopping puts Nelson in firing line

news.com.au     Jul 13, 2008   8 related          

IN Opposition terms, when politics moves from the conspiracy theory phase into the stuff up phase, you know that the leader is probably terminal. On Thursday last week my old and esteemed mate, Tom Switzer, who used to edit...                

Nelson U-turn on emissions

theage.com.au     Jul 11, 2008   22 related          

BRENDAN Nelson has been dragged back into line with his senior colleagues over emissions trading policy, after a damaging week of Opposition division. Dr Nelson dropped his rejection of a unilateral start to an Australian...                

Anger over plan to ignore Mayo

news.com.au     Jul 7, 2008   10 related          

OPPOSITION Leader Brendan Nelson has lashed out at the Labor Party for considering not running a candidate at the Mayo by-election. The ALP is yet to decide formally whether to run a candidate, citing cost, but party figures...                

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