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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Mr Combet said Thursday's "fiasco" topped off many months of destabilisation spurred by people backing Kevin Rudd's return as prime minister over Julia Gillard. "Kevin Rudd didn't front up - that says ...

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 ...