A Zoom speech from Joe Hockey? That’ll be $20,000 please

A Zoom speech from Joe Hockey? That’ll be $20,000 please

Ten years after declaring the “age of entitlement” was over,the former treasurer’s time comes with a hefty price tag.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andStephen Brook

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Joe Hockey demands ‘traitor’ politician be identified

Joe Hockey demands ‘traitor’ politician be identified

Former treasurer Joe Hockey says politicians can feel “personally smeared” after a foreign spy operation involving an ex-politician targeted an ex-prime minister’s family.

  • byMatthew Knott andOlivia Ireland
Governments need to take on powerful private schools lobby

Governments need to take on powerful private schools lobby

If past government decisions had been made

Joe Hockey has a point about spending. It’s a shame he’s a bad salesman

Joe Hockey has a point about spending. It’s a shame he’s a bad salesman

Joe Hockey’s tenure as treasurer is widely viewed as a disaster. But that doesn’t mean his warnings on government spending are wrong.

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Joe Hockey says entitled politicians are a cancer on the community

Joe Hockey says entitled politicians are a cancer on the community

The former treasurer returned to the London think tank where he gave his infamous End of the Age of Entitlement speech,to declare that the problem had worsened a decade on.

  • byLatika Bourke
Bondi Rescue as Joe Hockey poaches AGL executive Michelle Wood

Bondi Rescue as Joe Hockey poaches AGL executive Michelle Wood

Wood,an ALP member with stints at Uber and News Corp,brings some fresh ideological diversity to Hockey’s booming advisory firm Bondi Partners.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
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Toast to the new King:Sydney’s monarchists cut loose for the big coronation

Toast to the new King:Sydney’s monarchists cut loose for the big coronation

The country might’ve been indifferent to King Charles III’s big day. Not so for Australia’s monarchists.

  • byKishor Napier-Raman andNoel Towell
We know how to lower home prices,but our political leaders won’t have it

We know how to lower home prices,but our political leaders won’t have it

The International Monetary Fund is right:Australia’s home prices are far too high,and they are likely to fall. But if they fall sharply,just watch our governments prop them back up.

  • byRichard Denniss
Kevin Rudd is the right choice for US ambassador

Kevin Rudd is the right choice for US ambassador

The Biden administration chose one of America’s most admired public figures,Caroline Kennedy,to be its ambassador in Canberra. Australia has returned the compliment.

  • byGeorge Brandis
Hello Martin:Pakula takes off with Helloworld
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Hello Martin:Pakula takes off with Helloworld

The former Victorian state Labor tourism minister joins Helloworld as a non-executive director.

  • byNoel Towell andKishor Napier-Raman
Government right to avoid megaphone diplomacy on Assange,Joe Hockey says

Government right to avoid megaphone diplomacy on Assange,Joe Hockey says

The federal government’s pursuit of quiet diplomacy to halt the extradition of Julian Assange to the US has been backed by Australia’s former US ambassador.

  • byMatthew Knott andKatina Curtis