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Coalition’s youth internship scheme failure

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Half leave Coalition's youth internship scheme without a job Exclusive: Retail workers’ union says young people are being used as ‘cheap labour for six months and then discarded’ The $750m youth employment scheme is aimed at helping young Australians into work. Half of those exiting the government’s low-paying youth internship scheme leave...
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Pigs at the trough – Revenues of $5billion or yearly cost of 9.5 million pensioners – Can’t afford to pay tax!

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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 Salaries and Asset purchases. Almost the entire cost of our welfare system goes into the...
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ATO $4.2 billion short of budget revenue target – misses the elephants in the room

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The article "ATO $4.2 billion short of budget revenue target" seriously misses the elephants in the room. While the article published in the SMH 31 October 2017 and makes fascinating treading - full article is below. The ATO’s own admission they have enormously more success with prosecutions against medium and...
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Citizenship five paid nearly $9 million in salaries they were not entitled to

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The five federal politicians disqualified over their citizenship status collected close to $9 million in taxpayer-funded salaries they were not entitled to. Former deputy prime minister Barnaby Joyce accounts for $2.8 million of that money and his former Nationals deputy Fiona Nash $2.6 million. Both first entered parliament in 2005...
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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on calls for Michaelia Cash’s resignation

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VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on calls for Michaelia Cash's resignation Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra and Nicholas Klomp, University of Canberra The University of Canberra’s Nicholas Klomp and Michelle Grattan discuss the week in politics, including the opposition’s call for Employment Minister Michaelia Cash’s resignation after her staffer quit over media tip-offs,...
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The High Court sticks to the letter of the law on the ‘citizenship seven’

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The High Court sticks to the letter of the law on the 'citizenship seven' The High Court has ruled Scott Ludlam, Larissa Waters, Fiona Nash, Barnaby Joyce and Malcolm Roberts ineligible to have stood for parliament at the 2016 election. AAP/Shutterstock/The Conversation, CC BY-ND Gabrielle Appleby, UNSW Today, the High Court announced the...
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The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility

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The case of Michaelia Cash and her leaking adviser illustrates a failure of ministerial responsibility Michaelia Cash has refused to resign over misleading parliament, claiming she was unaware of one of her staffer’s actions. AAP/Lukas Coch Yee-Fui Ng, RMIT University The federal opposition is continuing to call for Employment Minister Michaelia Cash’s resignation,...
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For bankers, acountability does not start at home

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For bankers, acountability does not start at home Pat McConnell, Macquarie University When the CEOs of the four major banks fronted the House Economics Committee, the common thread was that accountability does not lie with them. Even after a decade of scandals like interest rate rigging, gouging of interest-only mortgagees and...
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Back to square one in energy policy: we now have a plan to produce a plan

POLITICS
A year and a day — that’s how long it took Frydenberg to kill off “Finkel”. On 7 October 2016, just nine days after a series of tornados took out at least 22 transmission pylons in South Australia and set off a cascading series of events resulting in a state-wide...
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Whitehaven Coal 20-fold increase in revenues – shares jump 21.40 per cent – Yet Paid No Tax – Again and Again

POLITICS
Whitehaven Coal has recorded one of the best performances this year for a coal miner, smashing debt in three months and reaching output highs, but analysts warn weak coal prices may hurt growth. During its annual general meeting on Wednesday, Whitehaven Coal said it had reduced net debt by 80...
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