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New test for corporate accountability as Star found ‘unsuitable’ to hold casino licence

BUSINESS
Will the NSW Independent Casino Commission (NICC) take the historic opportunity afforded by the outcome of the Bell inquiry into Sydney’s Star casino, and kick Star out of the building? Adam Bell SC’s report, released today, finds Star “presently unsuitable to be concerned in or associated with the management and...
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A troubling environment

ENVIRONMENT
Our environment is in deep trouble. We are all suffering as a result. Elected officials at all levels behave as if tackling the problem is a luxury, an optional extra if time and resources are available after meeting the much more important challenges of growing the economy. We are...
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Times have changed

COAL
Veteran economist and one-time Bob Hawke adviser Ross Garnaut put forward some Very Big Ideas in last night’s Jobs and Skills Summit keynote address, in which he called on the government to use the nation’s challenges as a chance to embrace major reform. Australia’s economic situation was worse than...
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How to make Australia richer

BUSINESS
Richard Denniss Professor Joseph Stiglitz, welcome to Australia. John Maynard Keynes once said “practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”. It’s decades since you and other Nobel prize winners debunked the intellectual underpinnings of neoliberalism....
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The professional classes make billion-dollar tax rorts possible

COAL
“The key lesson from WA Inc was that the shonks, crooks, spivs and conmen only really thrive with the assistance of the professional classes – the accountants, lawyers, valuers, journalists et al. “It took at least a culture of acquiescence and, more likely, one of mercenary complicity for the likes of...
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The minister who survived Barfgate with the Barilaros makes one slip too many

POLITICS
So the John Barilaro flying circus — with new special guest Eleni Petinos — has now fully overtaken the NSW government, cementing its brand as the tragi-farce of Australian politics. Eleni who? Petinos is the minister for small business and fair trading — with responsibility for workplace safety — who...
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ICAC finding puts MPs on notice over misuse of public money

ELECTIONS
A New South Wales ICAC report finding that pork barrelling could be classed as corruption could put paid to a belief popular among some MPs that using public money for political purposes is normal practice, a leading expert says. The Independent Commission Against Corruption report finds that any minister seeking...
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Mutually assured corruption

ECONOMY
What is most curious about John Barilaro is the honesty of his politics. Not in the conventional sense of integrity or commitment to the people he represents, but in the way that the truth sometimes bubbles up out of him. Accused of pork-barrelling, he says: yes, of course, that’s...
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Footy, horses and the whiff of an affair: the Barilaro scandal is a NSW saga par excellence

ENTITLEMENTS
It’s now 40 days and counting since John Barilaro’s moment of glory turned toxic for the Perrottet government. The former NSW deputy premier’s get-the-fuck-out-of-here dream job has become a daily waking nightmare for the government and is leading — inexorably, one suspects — to the resignation of at least...
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Small government and free markets – ideology or greed?

BUSINESS
At a small event at the Productivity Commission last week, visiting Nobel Prize-winning American economist Joseph Stiglitz was talking about revolution. He said the free market and small government ideology that has had America and much of the world in its grip for 40 years is over. “This is a revolution....
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