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Joseph Benedict "Joe" Hockey (born 2 August 1965), Australian politician, is the former Federal Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, in the Howard Government and the current Federal Shadow Minister for Finance, Competition Policy and Deregulation. He is a Liberal member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the... Full Article
CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JULY 10: Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott (R) and Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey speak to the media after the government's announcement of the Carbon Tax plan at Parliament House on July 10, 2011 in Canberra, Australia. AUD $15 billion in compensation will be...
View Photo »CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA - JULY 10: Australian Opposition leader Tony Abbott (R) and Shadow Treasurer Joe Hockey speak to the media after the government's announcement of the Carbon Tax plan at Parliament House on July 10, 2011 in Canberra, Australia. AUD $15 billion in compensation will be...
View Photo »It's got to stop. I wonder if it would have been a bit different being a female making the allegation against a male
Joe Hockey's had a strong history as a government minister within the Howard government
Whatever they claim on Tuesday night is flawed because nobody - including members of the Labor party - believes that Wayne Swan and Julia Gillard are going to be there to actually have to deliver it
They are trying to give people a sugar hit with an upfront payment
I'm appalled at the more recent comments from the foreign minister that seek to discredit the complainant
Frankly when there is an allegation of sexual harassment it should be left to the courts without all of this speculation around it and any attempts to to intimidate the staffer around it
On the one hand they say it's going to be a tough budget, they're going to have to make hard decisions about cut backs
Obviously our starting point is that the banks should pass it on in full, but if they can't, they've got to explain to their customers why the funding costs prohibit them passing on in full
Well, I haven't heard him say it.
In defence force terms, you need to have the latest equipment as fast as you possibly can
There has been an inquiry under all governments into petrol virtually every 12 to 18 months, so how this will be different I don't know
Of course they are going to impact on our frontline defence forces
It is about shifting money out of one year and into the next
I expect if the government is going to claim that it is proceeding with the national disability insurance scheme it will tell Australians how it is going to pay for it
Eight billion dollars a year - that's the equivalent of roughly increasing the Medicare levy by one per cent. That will be very hard for a lot of Australian families to pay, even though the cause is extremely important, and it's a cause that no-one could deny.
The NDIS is a very worthy scheme, but it sounds to me like the dying days of a government, where they make big heroic announcements about massive programs and they won't tell you how they pay for it
It's the government that says it is going to fund it in full now, so let's find out
I'm a member of Parliament, I have standards, this is not up to my standards
The government's own numbers predict power prices will rise by another 10 per cent, as a direct result of the carbon tax. Private sector estimates suggest the increase will be even more
These are essential items that families cannot do without
I don't know what he thought he was doing. Maybe it was jetlag.
The NSW government ... has been a partner in getting that wrong for a long time. We actually have to get on with the job of commissioning the construction of a second airport in the Sydney basin.
Abolishing the cap would be an absolute disaster … any repeal of the cap would have to be over my dead body because it would take us straight back to the noise levels of the 1990s
It's a hundred days until the carbon tax starts, let me tell you that's on the mind of Queenslanders
