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2 unusual facts about Treasurer of Australia


Golden Grove Mine

Wayne Swan, Treasurer of Australia, stated that Prominent Hill could not be included in the sale as it was within sensitive military area and the sale went only ahead after Prominent Hill was excluded.

Prominent Hill Mine

Wayne Swan, Treasurer of Australia, stated that Prominent Hill could not be included in the sale as it was within a sensitive military area and the sale of the other OZ Minerals mines only went ahead after Prominent Hill was excluded.


Australian Government Future Fund

On 11 September 2004, the Federal Treasurer, Peter Costello, announces that the Future Fund will be established following the 2004 federal election.

Colm Kearney

Kearney has broad policy and consulting experience, serving as Senior Economic Advisor to Australian Federal Treasurer (Ministers for Finance) John Kerin and Federal Finance Minister Ralph Willis in the early 1990s.

Greenwich, New South Wales

Hockey has held the seat since the 1996 federal election and is currently the Shadow Treasurer.

Martin Parkinson

Parkinson had previously served as the inaugural Secretary of the Department of Climate Change, Deputy Secretary of the Department of the Treasury, an International Monetary Fund official, and an advisor to former Australian Treasurer, John Dawkins.

Ralph Willis

Ralph Willis AO (born 14 April 1938), Australian politician, was Treasurer for the final years of the Keating Labor Government.


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