Mike Baird

Type: Person

Name: Mike Baird

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 2 reports

Australian Gov’t to Offer Up Long-Term Lease on World’s Biggest Coal Export Port

NCIG Coal Export Terminal in Newcastle, New South Wales. Photo courtesy NCIG Ben Sharples June 18 (Bloomberg) — Australia’s New South Wales state is planning to offer a long-term lease for Newcastle port, the world’s biggest export harbor for coal ... [Published MaritimeSecurity.Asia - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Coal, Ports, Botany, Mike Baird

First reported 18 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 3 reports

NSW Budget builds for the future

The New South Wales Government’s Budget for the 2013/14 financial year continues the necessary steps to build for the future, the General Manager of the Tourism Industry Council NSW, Mr Andrew Jefferies has said.The third budget of the O’Farrell Government, ... [Published EGlobal Travel Media - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Taxes, George Souris, Tourism, Sydney (Australia)

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 6 hours ago - 2 reports

Government aims to bank trust now hard decisions are in place

Mike Baird has delivered the very model of a mid-term state budget. It capitalises on the difficult decisions taken in the first two years of the government's first term and sets it up for the short run to the 2015 election.There is yet another asset ... [Published Melbourne Age - 6 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Baird, privatise, Elections

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 7 hours ago - 3 reports

Study in state toll road funding

Without an election to fight in the next 12 months, Tuesday's NSW state budget was always going to be a low-key affair: continued tight restraints on spending as it squeezes the public sector for greater efficiencies while looking to the private sector ... [Published Melbourne Age - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Ports, Mike Baird, Sydney Airport Corp Ltd, Botany

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 7 hours ago - 27 reports

Newcastle port sale to raise $700m

The NSW government is to sell off its largest remaining port - at Newcastle - in a move that will raise a conservative estimate of $700 million, with about half the proceeds to be used to revitalise the city's infrastructure.Following the success of the ... [Published Melbourne Age - 7 hours ago]

Entities: Ports, Mike Baird, Botany, privatise

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 13 hours ago - 6 reports

NSW Budget - securing the future for NSW

MEDIA RELEASEThe NSW 2013-14 Budget consolidates the rewards of tough decisions and reforms undertaken over the past two years to secure the future for NSW, Premier Barry O’Farrell and Treasurer Mike Baird said today."Against a backdrop of difficult global ... [Published NSW Government Gazette - 13 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Baird, Infrastructure, Taxes, Education, Labor

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 14 hours ago - 3 reports

Accounting standard change hits NSW budget

At least that's the way treasurer Mike Baird sees it.Using accounting standards that applied previously, the budget would have still been in deficit in 2013/14, according to forecasts released on Tuesday, but only by $329 million.However, based on new ... [Published Big News Network - 14 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Baird

First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 15 hours ago - 2 reports

We need to build it, but will they come? Private infrastructure problems

Poor assessment of risk, and motorists’ loathing of tolls, has long made infrastructure funding problematic. The NSW government is trying for a new approach.How governments fund major infrastructure projects is one of the most significant policy issues ... [Published Crikey Media - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Infrastructure, Mike Baird, Andrew Robb

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated 17 hours ago - 11 reports

NSW Treasurer Mike Baird with the 2013 budget papers

NSW Treasurer Mike Baird poses for photographs ahead of the NSW State Budget in Sydney, Monday, June 17, 2 ... [Published ABC Online - 17 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Baird, Sydney (Australia)

First reported 19 hours ago - Updated 19 hours ago - 3 reports

NSW budget's dreary economic backdrop (AAP)

In framing the NSW budget, treasurer Mike Baird faced the same uninspiring economic backdrop confronting his federal counterpart. ... [Published Yahoo! News Australia - 19 hours ago]

Entities: Mike Baird

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 2 reports

NSW budget must take care of people: Oppn (AAP)

NSW Treasurer Mike Baird is being called on to put away his razor gang in the upcoming budget and govern for people, not the bottom line.Shadow Treasurer Michael Daley rejected Mr Baird's claims that revenues are soft, forcing the government to deliver ... [Published West Australian - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Michael Daley, Mike Baird, Barry O'Farrell, Weasel

First reported Jun 16 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 3 reports

TRANSFORMING SYDNEY: $6.4 BILLION FOR ?BIG SIX? TRANSPORT INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS

The NSW budget includes investment of $6.4 billion on the 'big six' public transport infrastructure projects which are set to kick off unprecedented levels of construction over the coming years and change the way people move around greater Sydney.NSW ... [Published Noodls - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Transportation, Sydney (Australia), Infrastructure

Quotes

"the big winner will be newcastle itself. should the transaction be successful, a$340 million of the proceeds will go towards the revitalisation of newcastle" Baird added

Australia's NSW govt plans sale of Newcastle coal port [Published London South East - 4 hours ago]

"we will always co-operate with the federal government to produce better outcomes for our students" Mr Baird said in his budget speech

Gonski deal all set but scant funding for years [Published Melbourne Age - 6 hours ago]

Mr Baird said the venture was "a fantastic opportunity for newcastle off the back of this budget"

Newcastle port sale to raise $700m [Published Melbourne Age - 7 hours ago]

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Private sector wins in budget of ‘shiny new thi... [Published The Sydney News - 11 hours ago]
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At a glance: NSW budget 2013 [Published Melbourne Age - 13 hours ago]
Port to go, NSW public sector to tighten (AAP) [Published Yahoo! News Australia - 14 hours ago]
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