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POLITICS

Are Sunday penalty rates a job killer? A real-world experiment refutes employers’ claim

Serena Yu, University of Technology Sydney and David Peetz, Griffith University Two big claims underpin attempts to cut penalty rates for Sunday workers in the retail and hospitality sectors: that they are no longer needed...
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POLITICS

ANZ set to scrap personal banking fees: ‘We make more than enough as it is’

ANZ bank will be scrapping all fees associated with personal banking accounts as of January 1 2017, CEO Shayne Elliot told staff and shareholders today. In an email sent earlier this morning and obtained by...
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POLITICS

The curious incentives and consequences of negative gearing

Charis Palmer, The Conversation; Georgina Hall, The Conversation; Helen Westerman, The Conversation; Jenni Henderson, The Conversation, and Wes Mountain, The Conversation Negative gearing was one of the federal election campaign’s fiercest battlegrounds. While the Labor opposition...
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POLITICS

Election 2016 – Infographic: what we know so far about the results of Election 2016

Follow #pigsfly on Twitter and @Pigsfly Newspaper on Facebook. This is your perfect resource to find out the actual count as it occurs. Our panel below, is your direct link to the Australian Electoral Commission...
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POLITICS

Malcolm Turnbull: a prime minister on probation in search of a mandate

Michelle Grattan, University of CanberraMuch of politics is comparative. Malcolm Turnbull, awaiting judgement from a fickle electorate, told Four Corners that if the Liberals had not changed leaders “we would’ve lost the election very...
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POLITICS

McDonald’s Australia cut its tax bill by more than half in 2015 by routing payments via the low-tax nation of Singapore.

Fast food giant McDonald’s Australia cut its tax bill by more than half in 2015 by routing payments via the low-tax nation of Singapore. McDonald’s reduces its profit, and thus its local tax bill, by...
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OPINION

Musk’s Solar Lifestyle Idea Has One Big Flaw

Tesla’s explanation of its proposal to acquire Solar City, another Elon Musk project, offers a compelling vision: Get energy from the sun, use and store it in the home, charge your car with it....
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OPINION

Nexit, Frexit or Italeave? British vote fires up EU’s ‘Outers’

Britain's vote to leave the European Union fired up populist eurosceptic parties across the continent on Friday, giving fresh voice to their calls to leave the bloc or its euro currency. Right-wing and anti-immigrant parties...
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