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The petition: Stop Future Entitlement Rorts.

ECONOMY
Click on this link to Petition to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull. Reject the 2016 Report of Independent Committee Review into Parliamentarian's Entitlements. The Report is both a shame and disgrace. The recently tabled 2016 Report Independent Committee Review into Parliamentarian's Entitlements, grants complete and total control over "Entitlements expenditure" to the very...
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Business Expenses or Rorts? – $47 Million in six months

ECONOMY
Australia’s own version of the Panama papers is the Report of the Independent Parliamentary Entitlements System Review, February 2016. A secret alliance between Tony Abbott and Malcolm Turnbull to join forces to become the Gordon Gekko of Australian Politics?  The 2016 Independent Review Committee's Report of politicians entitlements is totally indefensible. Gekko...
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Who benefits from media reform? If history is any guide, it’s not the public

Vincent O'Donnell, RMIT University The “most significant media reform in Australia in a generation”, as unveiled by Communications Minister Mitch Fifield earlier this month, is no reform. It is a capitulation to the interests of licensees, shareholders and rent-seekers in the Australian media industries, painted up in the gaudy raiment...
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Will Australia be caught short as politicians sacrifice the national interest to stay in power?

Matthew Rimmer on Twitter: "No Surprises: Tony Abbott vs Malcolm Turnbull @DavPope on #LibSpill, Trojan Horses and Rainbow Unicorns. http://t.co/7zE2XNmUZq" The tabloid critique of Tony Abbott, and indeed Kevin Rudd, is that they were bonkers. It is made by MPs who claimed to be aware of their idiosyncrasies before casting...
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Google’s tax deal with the UK: key questions answered

Google’s tax deal raises the question of whether the government is taking too soft a tone with multinationals over their tax. When Google reached a £130m settlement with the British taxman last week, George Osborne described the deal as a “major success”. But the chancellor and the search giant have...
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Ethics secondary in life insurance

Benjamin Koh, SMH March 11, 2016 Ethics and insurance don’t go hand in hand The behaviour of Commonwealth Bank’s financial planning division was predicted several years prior in research by Dr June Smith from Victoria University. In the thesis on Professionalism and Ethics in Financial Planning, Dr Smith showed there are...
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Folie-a-deux: Reliance on Peta Credlin disabled, but did not kill, Tony Abbott

Jack Waterford, Canberra Times columnist March 11, 2016 The most poignant, believable and prophetic movement of Niki Savva's Shakespearean tragi-comedy of the downfall of Tony Abbott is when a close factional colleague is trying to convince his Grand Vizier that, for his sake, she has to go. The Vizier can't see it,...
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Government still wants to increase students’ contribution to university funding

In a speech to a Universities Australia dinner, Education Minister Simon Birmingham stressed that he would not rush into a new higher education policy. Education Minister Simon Birmingham has flagged that the government is still committed to reconsidering the balance between what students and government pay for higher education. In a...
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The Quirky History of Meldonium, From a Latvian Lab to Maria Sharapova

My mom took erythropoietin—EPO. It helped her tired, anemic body pump out more red blood cells for years before it became the drug of choice for professional cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s. I mention this because somebody’s mom probably also takes meldonium, the same drug that...
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How Much Can You Fight Inequality? Canada’s About to Find Out

By Christopher Flavelle On a recent snowy afternoon in Ottawa, Jean-Yves Duclos sat in his as-yet-undecorated office overlooking Canada's Parliament, reflecting on the limits of government. Until last fall, Duclos was an economics professor specializing in the use of public policy to reduce inequality. In November, he became...
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