Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. ELEANOR HALL: One person who knew particularly well Bernie Banton's strength as a campaigner and who ...

Former Labor minister Greg Combet is to be the new chair of the Future Fund, replacing Peter Costello. Combet, a member of parliament in 2007-2013, served in the industry and climate change and energy ...

ELEANOR HALL: The former prime minister Julia Gillard has just launched her former Cabinet minister Greg Combet's autobiography to a rousing audience in Sydney's Trades Hall. The book is called The ...

Anointed by Bob Hawke as a future Labor leader, the Climate Change Minister made the announcement late this afternoon. He quit the frontbench last week after Kevin Rudd’s victory in the leadership ...

Former Labor minister Greg Combet is to be the new chair of the Future Fund, replacing Peter Costello. It means he will stand down as the inaugural chair of the Net Zero Economic Agency. Combet, a ...

Australia’s government appointed Greg Combet to chair the nation’s sovereign wealth fund, ending a months-long process to replace incumbent Peter Costello. The former federal Labor government minister ...

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says he will discuss the investment direction of the $212 billion Future Fund with incoming chairman Greg Combet, after both the Labor figures previously backed the $3.5 ...

Mr Combet was yesterday quick to throw his support behind the Prime Minister after it was reported Mr Hawke had declared the minister, a former ACTU secretary, should be the party's next leader.

However, Frontier Economics says unless the international carbon price recovers, generators will be overcompensated under Labor's pollution price regime. In a report released on Thursday, the ...