The Hon Joe Hockey is Australia’s Ambassador to the United States of America, taking up his posting in Washington in January 2016 after retiring from Australian politics having served as treasurer in the Abbott Government from 2013. From the vantage point of Washington DC and the Australian Embassy there, Joe Hockey is uniquely placed to…

In 2014, the new Abbott Government handed down a Budget that stirred protest at its unfairness even as the government proclaimed it to be a Budget of reform to more fairly distribute sustainable revenue while tackling the fast growing borrowings and ongoing Budget deficits. In an address to The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 11 June…

The Hon Joe Hockey is the Member for North Sydney and shadow treasurer. He was first elected to the federal parliament in 1996 and held a number of ministerial portfolios in the Howard Governments, including that of Small Business and Tourism, Financial Services, Regulation, Human Services and Employment, and Workplace Relations. On Thursday 30 August,…

Shadow Treasurer The Hon Joe Hockey MP addressed The Sydney Institute on Wednesday 9 March 2011.  His address took up the themes of how government can best promote Australia’s long held principles of liberty, equality and opportunity. The speech forms part of a series of addresses by Joe Hockey on major issues for reform in…