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State capture: Tax avoidance on a mega scale

ECONOMY
Labor has caved on its country-by-country tax reform in an embarrassing volte-face which betrays all Australians, many of whom pay more tax income tax than multinational tax avoiders who are able, via offshore related party transactions, to pay zip. Ironically, it was the transparency reforms of the Abbott/Hockey regime which...
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Afghanistan war crimes: investigating the generals is the only way to end cover-up calls

POLITICS
Chief of the Defence Force, General Angus Campbell, announces the findings of the Inspector-General of the Australian Defence Force Afghanistan Inquiry in November 2020. source: Department of DefenceAustralia’s military leaders need to be held to account for command failures in Afghanistan. It’s no surprise that calls of a cover-up...
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There’s more than reputation at stake: PwC faces penalties, including possible jail time

POLITICS
There’s more than reputation at stake: PwC faces penalties, including possible jail time Michael Adams, University of New England and Michael William Blissenden, University of New England What penalties does the consulting giant PricewaterhouseCoopers face for sharing confidential government tax policy information and (in its words) betraying the public’s trust? At most, there’s...
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The whistleblower and the war criminal: David McBride and Ben Roberts-Smith

POLITICS
Under the thick fog of the 9/11 attacks, John Howard — ordinarily not given to vaulting, Churchillian oratory — delivered a thundering address to the Australian Defence Association (ADA) in late October 2001 on his decision to commit Australia to what would prove an unwinnable war. Threaded with righteous anger, the speech...
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Anatomy of a Cover-Up: whistleblower warned PwC and Lendlease of $1b tax scam

POLITICS
PwC advised Lendlease on the billion-dollar tax scam which is now subject to Australian Tax Office audit. As Lendlease whistleblower Tony Watson fights the giant in court over his dismissal as a tax lawyer, documents obtained by MWM show Watson warned a PwC tax partner and group finance chief...
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Money, power, influence: How ‘media monsters’ used journalism to cement their empires

LOBBYIST
Carl Sagan said that in order to understand the present, it’s necessary to know the past. Nowhere does this apply with greater force than to the Australian media and its place in the nation’s power structure. Media Monsters, Sally Young’s second volume on the history of the Australian media, is indispensable...
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George Floyd’s killing capped years of violence, discrimination by Minneapolis police, DOJ says

POLITICS
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Justice Department on Friday issued a withering critique of Minneapolis police, alleging that they systematically discriminated against racial minorities, violated constitutional rights and disregarded the safety of people in custody for years before George Floyd was killed. The report was the result of a sweeping two-year...
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Integrity watchdog unleashed

POLITICS
In less than two weeks the new National Anti-Corruption Commission (NACC) will be officially in operation – the long-awaited answer to a defining issue of the last federal election. The need for an integrity watchdog became pressing given the failure of the Morrison government to legislate such a body as...
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PwC and the Adani mine triple dip. A conflict of interest? Surely not

LOBBYIST
A  humble footnote on page 30 of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility’s 2016-17 annual report reads: “PwC supported NAIF in the development of its Risk Management Framework.” NAIF was in the news in late 2016 because it had given “conditional approval” of a $1 billion loan to Adani for...
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Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story

FUA AWARDS
Grattan on Friday: Liberals come a cropper when they try to dig afresh into the Brittany Higgins story Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra Two women ended up in tears in the Senate this week, as the Higgins imbroglio exploded yet again and in the process claimed a scalp. But the scalp wasn’t that...
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