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Emma Husar allegations show a need for clearer rules about what MPs can – and cannot – do

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Emma Husar allegations show a need for clearer rules about what MPs can - and cannot - do Labor MP Emma Husar has taken personal leave while the party investigates claims against her. AAP/Mick Tsikas Yee-Fui Ng, Monash University Labor MP Emma Husar is facing pressure to resign, following revelations that she tasked her...
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A modern tragedy: Nine-Fairfax merger a disaster for quality media

POLITICS
Fairfax has a charter of editorial independence, which all owners since 1990 have signed up to. Will Nine sign up to it? Will the charter have any meaning when the newspapers are owned by a company whose chairman, Peter Costello, was treasurer in the Liberal-National Coalition government of former...
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Australia’s wholesale electricity market.

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High electricity prices are here to stay, according to a new Grattan Institute report that calls on politicians to tell Australians the truth about the future of energy costs. Wholesale electricity prices rose across the National Electricity Market (NEM) by 130 per cent between 2015 and 2017. The price paid...
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Tax cuts 2018

POLITICS
95% of Stage 3 Tax Cuts go to high income earners New Australia Institute analysis of stage three of the government’s income tax plan show high-income earners will get 95% of the benefit, while three-quarters of taxpayers get no benefit at all. Today the Senate has rejected stage 3 of the...
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Partially right: rejecting neoliberalism shouldn’t mean giving up on social liberalism

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Partially right: rejecting neoliberalism shouldn't mean giving up on social liberalism shutterstock. Richard Holden, UNSW and Rosalind Dixon, UNSW Richard Denniss’s Quarterly Essay, “Dead Right: How Neoliberalism Ate Itself and What Comes Next”, is a thought-provoking call to arms against an array of perceived ills – economic rationalism, market forces, small government,...
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Revealed: This is how much ordinary Australians really earn

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A casual glance at the news in recent months may have left you thinking the average Australian earns almost $85,000 a year. If that sounded insanely high to you, then your instincts were bang on. An ordinary Australian earns way, way less than that. But it doesn’t appear to have stopped...
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Apple finally delivers time restrictions and parental control on some Iphone and IPad apps

EMPORIUM
Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls Apple acknowledges the iKid generation at its developer conference with new parental controls Michael Cowling, CQUniversity Australia and James Birt Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off this week. While new iPhones were nowhere to be found – Apple CEO...
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Why do we ship Australian Profits Overseas?

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Every dollar the Queensland government spends on handouts to coal companies is a dollar that can’t be spent on schools, teachers, hospitals or nurses. Sign the Open Letter here - http://bit.ly/back_qld Queensland has been amongst the lowest in state spending on social services in Australia. But when it comes to...
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Coke has promised ‘less sugar’, but less is still too much

BUSINESS
Coke has promised 'less sugar', but less is still too much Many new products contain artificial sweeteners, which come with their own set of problems. from www.shutterstock.com Rosemary Stanton, UNSW At last count, 28 countries and seven large cities in the USA had moved to introduce a tax on sugary drinks. Potential benefits...
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Tax Justice May Podcast

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In this month’s Taxcast: We discuss why we can’t afford the rich and challenge ideas about wealth, entrepreneurialism and investment. Also: ten years ago the Tax Justice Network was told it’d never happen, but this month British Members of Parliament voted to stop secret ownership of companies in British...
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