Friday, April 24, 2026

Panama Papers Source Offers Documents To Governments, Hints At More To Come

Source known only as John Doe says income inequality "one of the defining issues of our time" and calls on governments to address it.   The anonymous whistleblower behind the Panama Papers has conditionally offered to...

Curious about Panama Papers? You can soon look for yourself

Coming Soon: ICIJ to Release Panama Papers Offshore Companies Data Ordinary citizens soon will be able to comb through a portion of the massive Panama Papers data on secretive offshore companies and their owners, a...

The Australia Institute’s 2016 Budget Review.

Firstly, the good news. No, really! In the space of one election cycle superannuation tax concessions went from bi-partisan sacred cow, to bi-partisan race to reform. The Australia Institute has put out a stack...

Lord and Ladies: The World Changes “C’od-turn-a-bull”

My Lords and my Ladies, I beseech your indulgence, here before your magnificent court, as I present for your amusement and moral edification the fourth iteration of the tale of Tiny Napoleon O’penmouth and...

Divining the May 2016 federal budget

Some of you may question the purpose of trying to divine what will be in the May 3 federal budget when the Turnbull Ship of State seems to be all at sea, wallowing towards...

Negative Gearing! Trust the PM, Joe Hockey and Tony Abbott or form a different view?

On the 26th April 2016 night Leigh Sales became the rock star of journalism. With deft questioning she enabled Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to partially reveal a few of his core beliefs and ethics. Thankfully...

The petition: Stop Future Entitlement Rorts.

Click on this link to Petition to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Reject the 2016 Report of Independent Committee Review into Parliamentarian's Entitlements. The Report is both a shame and disgrace. The recently tabled 2016 Report Independent Committee...

Who benefits from media reform? If history is any guide, it’s not the public

Vincent O'Donnell, RMIT University The “most significant media reform in Australia in a generation”, as unveiled by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield earlier this month, is no reform. It is a capitulation to the interests of...

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