'Protected species': Former bank executive Rob Ferguson gives big four a serve
Rob Ferguson’s CV reeks corporate establishment. He clocked 15 years at the top of one of Australia’s largest and most successful investment banks,...
The money-raising hosted by Nine had none of the sleaziness and claimed illegality of the $100,000 donation a Chinese property developer allegedly delivered to the NSW ALP in that now-notorious Aldi bag.
The Nine Entertainment...
The big con: how neoliberals convinced us there wasn't enough to go around
Richard DennisAustralia just experienced one of the biggest mining booms in world history. But even at the peak of that boom, there...
The coal industry has infiltrated Australia's federal government through a secretive network of ties, working to influence Australia’s political decisions at the highest level: right up to the office of the Prime Minister, Scott...
Unpacking the flaws in Adani's water management plan
Matthew Currell, RMIT University and Adrian Werner, Flinders University
Adani’s groundwater dependent ecosystem management plan for its proposed Carmichael coal mine was recently approved by federal Environment Minister...
I’ve listened hard for the sound of wealth trickling down but all I hear is the sound of the excluded still waiting
Amid the fanfare heralding a surplus that is better described as being more...
The Banking RC Report marginalises small business borrowers, effectively calling them sore losers and whingers and telling them to bugger off once and for all, writes Dr Evan Jones.
THE Financial Services Royal Commission Final Report has generated...
A reverse death tax that helps the rich
The dividend imputation system is a rort Australia can’t afford, write Emma Dawson and Tim Lyons.
Australia’s dividend imputation system was introduced by Paul Keating in 1987. Its...