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ExxonMobil avoids corporate tax until 2021

ExxonMobile reported revenues of $9.6bn in 2013-14, $8.5bn in 2014-15 and $6.7bn in 2015-16. ExxonMobil told a Senate inquiry on Wednesday 14th Mardch 2018 that it did not expect to pay any Australian corporate tax until 2021, meaning...
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‘Staggering’: $90 billion lost in resources tax

'Staggering': $90 billion lost in resources tax By Eryk Bagshaw 12 March 2018 — 3:47pm An Oxford University expert says Australia would be $90 billion better off if it adopted European-style resource tax policies and argues the Turnbull...
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POLITICS

How Tesla’s big battery is bringing Australia’s gas cartel to heel

South Australia’s big gamble on grid-scale battery storage may pay for itself in just a year if it continues to prevent massive price spikes On Sunday 14 January something very unusual happened. The Australian Energy Market...
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POLITICS

The minister the money and the mine. How a rotten deal was hatched

As waiters took orders for toasties and coffee at the Little Teapot Café in the sleepy coastal hamlet of Davistown, NSW, four men were discussing a deal as big as it was potentially rotten. A...
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POLITICS

Why businesses want the ear of government and are willing to pay for it

Why businesses want the ear of government and are willing to pay for it George Rennie, University of Melbourne Political donations and lobbying are a significant drain on the economy as it can damage competition, create...
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ENERGY

A high price for policy failure: the ten-year story of spiralling electricity bills

David Blowers, Grattan Institute Politicians are told never to waste a good crisis. Australia’s electricity sector is in crisis, or something close to it. The nation’s first-ever statewide blackout, in South Australia in September 2016,...
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ENERGY

The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it’s time to move on

The National Electricity Market has served its purpose – it's time to move on A single, national market that supplies all of Australia’s electricty is looking dangerously outdated – and politically impossible. Alan Pears, RMIT University The...
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BUSINESS

Pigs at the trough – Revenues of $5billion or yearly cost of 9.5 million pensioners – Can’t afford to pay tax!

Prime Minister Turnbull is pushing Tax Breaks for the Big End Of Town Why? The following corporations while generating revenues of almost $5billion dollars have decided that the Australian Taxpayers should subsidise their Management Fees, Directors...
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