Media releases

A total of 12 regional highways across Queensland will receive improved spot mobile phone coverage, with Telstra today announced as the successful tenderer for the $20.4 million Commonwealth

I have requested the Australian Statistician to consider releasing the June Quarter 2002 National Accounts one day early as I am required to be outside Australia on the originally scheduled d

The release of the Consumer Price Index (CPI) today shows that inflationary pressures in Australia remain in check.

Today I announce the reappointment of Mr Les Hosking as Chief Executive Officer of Axiss for a further 2 years from 1 August 2002.

I am pleased to announce the re-appointment of Mr Hugh Morgan to the Board of the Reserve Bank of Australia for a term of five years, beginning on 29 July 2002.

Australia has edged closer to the goal of regional free trade in ratifying an agreement for closer economic relations with island countries in the Pacific, Treasurer Peter Costello and Trade

The Treasurer will represent Australia at the 6th annual Pacific Islands Forum Economic Ministers Meeting, to be held in Vanuatu from July 2 to 4.

The Treasurer and the Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasurer today announced a process which will review audit regulation and the wider corporate disclosure framework as the next phase in the Gov

On 30 June 2002, Ms Jillian Segal will be resigning from her position as Deputy Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission to take up a position as a Member of the Committ

The Treasurer today announced the appointment of Ms Jennifer McNeill as a full-time member of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for a five year term beginning 22 July

Today's National Accounts show that the Australian economy continued to grow solidly in the March quarter of 2002, adding further to our economic security and stability.

Following the terrorist attacks in the United States on 11 September 2001, insurers began to withdraw cover for terrorist risk around the world.

Sir John Gorton was a courageous and forthright Australian who served his country with distinction in military service, as a Parliamentarian, a Minister, and ultimately as Prime Minister.

The Department of Treasury has carried out a preliminary costing of the Labor Party's policy announced last night to oppose the superannuation surcharge tax cut and reduce superannuation contributi

Today I am releasing the report of the Fuel Taxation Inquiry and announcing that the Government has decided against implementing the main recommendations of the Inquiry, as detailed below.

The Government will make a new contribution to assist the world's poorest nations to escape the burden of unsustainable debt by providing an extra $18 million to the Heavily Indebted Poor Cou

The Treasurer, Peter Costello, and the Minister for Industry, Tourism and Resources, Ian Macfarlane, today announced the Government's response to the Australian Competition and C

The Treasurer announced that one of the measures in tonight's Budget is a decision to provide the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) with additional funding to enable it

The Treasurer and the Minister for Transport and Regional Services today released the Productivity Commission's final report on Price Regulation of Airport Services, and also announced the Governme

The Treasurer today announced the membership and terms of reference of the Committee of Inquiry into the competition provisions of the Trade Practices Act 1974, and their administration.