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Coalition vows to overturn extra Future Fund priorities

Adding clean energy and housing as supplementary investment priorities for Australia's sovereign wealth fund has drawn sharp rebuke from the opposition.

AAP

Australia’s Future Fund to invest in housing, infrastructure and energy transition under new mandate

Sovereign wealth fund’s statement of expectations will be updated for the first time in 15 years

The Guardian - AU

Australia’s $230 billion Future Fund encouraged to invest in housing, energy transition, infrastructure

The Albanese government has rewritten the mandate of the Future Fund – the nation’s sovereign wealth fund – to urge it to direct investment into the “national priorities” of housing, the energy transition and infrastructure, where the risk and returns are acceptable.

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Winston Peters’ $100 billion infrastructure fund is the right idea. Politics-as-usual is the problem

New Zealand’s infrastructure woes are a constant political pain point. From ageing water systems to congested roads and assets increasingly threatened by climate change, the country faces mammoth upgrading and future-proofing challenges.

The Conversation

Crispin Blunt’s drug policy unit loses thousands of taxpayer money

The CDPRG aimed to allow access to cannabis-based medical products and reform wider drug policy following the “current failure of prohibition”.

The Independent UK

Conflicted Costello’s departure shifts deckchairs in a doomed industry

Look beyond Peter Costello’s encounter with a News Corp journalist and you’ll see an industry in its death throes.

Crikey

Memo to Greg Combet: vote the Future Fund’s $110m Tesla shares against Musk’s latest pay scam

The government is currently fighting Elon Musk in the courts. But there might be another way to take the billionaire down a peg.

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Was the Future Fund a failure? It's too early to tell

City Voices: With close to 700 companies in which the fund now holds shares, it only takes one to have made the whole thing a success

Evening Standard

Analyst has a bold prediction on how Tesla can recover in 2024

It's all dependent on one vehicle.

The Street

Changing of the guard at Future Fund puts Combet at top

Former ACTU leader and Labor minister Greg Combet is the new chair of Australia's sovereign wealth fund, replacing Liberal stalwart Peter Costello.

AAP

How Elon Musk’s solar ambitions fell back to earth

The revolutionary "solar roof" is one of Musk's best products. How come nobody's buying it?

Fortune

Labour asks watchdog to investigate Sunak over wife’s interest in startup fund

PM’s much-criticised Future Fund, set up during the pandemic, gave £2m to companies co-owned by Akshata Murty

The Guardian - UK

Sunak’s Covid startup fund invested nearly £2m in firms linked to his wife

Four businesses linked to Akshata Murty revealed to have received investment from much-criticised Future Fund

The Guardian - UK

Future Fund boss Peter Costello won't seek third term

Australia's former federal treasurer Peter Costello won't seek a third term as chair of the Future Fund and recruitment for his replacement is underway.

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Treasurer to take fresh look at Future Fund

Australia's sovereign wealth fund could be in for a shake-up, including new personnel, as the Labor government continues its renewal of institutions.

The Conversation

Politics with Michelle Grattan: Greens' Max Chandler-Mather on the housing fund, rent freezes and migration

The government’s planned Housing Australia Future Fund has hit a roadblock.

The Guardian - UK

‘A naive and stupid idea’: how Rishi Sunak’s Future Fund spent millions on failed firms

The then chancellor’s loan scheme, set up as Covid hit, was supposed to keep dynamic startups going, but ended up giving taxpayer cash to long-established or lame duck businesses

AAP

Minister steps on the gas to defend emissions policy

Emissions will continue to rise without the federal government's safeguard mechanism plan, Climate Change Minister Chris Bowen says.

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