Costello &#39;won&#39;t be Treasurer&#39;
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PETER Costello would not be Treasurer after the election no matter what the result because he had been so wrong on Labor policy costings, Opposition Leader Mark Latham said today.
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A Labour donor says he will almost certainly stop giving money because of Cabinet disunity and overseas concerns.
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SYDNEY (Dow Jones)--A bigger-than-expected fall in Australian building approvals in August suggests the Reserve Bank won&#39;t be in a hurry to raise interest rates immediately after the Oct. 9 election.
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The leader of the main opposition Conservatives insisted he would not back tax cuts despite warnings that right-wing fringe parties would gain from his centrist stand.
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Labor&#39;s health spokeswoman, Julia Gillard, says she will not be standing for the position of shadow treasurer. Ms Gillard says it&#39;s her own decision and not a response to weekend newspaper reports that Opposition
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WHEN you&#39;ve been comprehensively flogged by a worm on national television, the last person you want performing your post-stoush spin is Peter Costello.
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SYDNEY - He may have failed to unseat Prime Minister John Howard in Saturday&#39;s election, but opposition leader Mark Latham looks set to remain head of the Labour Party, his colleagues said Sunday.
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SYDNEY : Treasurer Peter Costello said the slowing of the Australian economy apparent in the latest growth figures is &quot;not unwelcome&quot; as he maintained a forecast of annual growth of around 3.5 percent.
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Australia&#39;s Treasurer Peter Costello said his forecast in May for aA$2.4 billion ($1.7 billion) budget surplus will help keep interest rates from rising.
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Insurance Commissioner Nonnie S. Burnes has promised to keep a tight regulatory rein on automobile insurers as competition is introduced next year, but several state senators said yesterday they weren't content to rely on the commissioner's assurances.
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Peter Hain is set for more questions after failing to register Â£103,000 of donations to his Labour deputy leadership campaign.
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Michael Howard is set to tell his party conference that he will not break election promises.
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The Conservatives will not make spending promises they cannot afford, the shadow chancellor is to say.
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Attorney General Eliot Spitzer of New York said yesterday that he did not intend to cede to the federal government any of his existing or previous investigations into business practices.
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PETER Costello yesterday declared Sunday night&#39;s debate a bore and said he should take on Mark Latham. &quot;I think a lot of people would have turned it on and had a look to see how it was going and then they&#39;d
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A defiant Peter Hain has made clear that he has no intention of resigning amid donations row
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Business & money: Sovereign funds deny political motivations, as US deputy treasury chief calls for vigilance