Sunday, April 19, 2026

Tax rorts, consultants, external Government advisors embed in Government departments. Golly gee what’s the problem

Nearly one week after the police were called, the government cannot directly say if it can stop doing business with a firm whose ex-CEO allegedly leaked Australian tax secrets. It’s eight years since Peter-John Collins,...

Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule?

Why did gas prices go from $10 a gigajoule to $800 a gigajoule? An expert on the energy crisis engulfing Australia Samantha Hepburn, Deakin University Australia’s east coast has been plunged into an energy crisis just as...

Lachlan Murdoch’s decision to drop the Crikey defamation suit atones for the misjudgment of suing in the first place

Discontinuation of defamation proceedings was no less remarkable than the decision to sue the minnow publisher Lachlan Murdoch’s federal court defamation action against Private Media Pty Ltd, publisher of Crikey, was never likely to end...

Best Bullshit Thanks Jim Chalmers

As the fossil fuel spin merchants freed Jim Chalmers the crap that ensures he continues Australia's unique Tax Free Club for Coal, Gas and Oil exporters in readiness for the Budget brief. We would...

Shorten reboot to put NDIS back ‘on the right track’

The crap that just keeps giving. The NDIS is a  broken warped system with absolutely no transparency. This one off - dead simple - immediate fix will bring instantaneous transparency, accountability, and real time effectiveness to the entire...

You pay millions for these imbeciles to encourage conspiracy theories and misinformation. Why?

We get so used to the bonkers shit that goes on in the Australian Senate that it starts to seem unremarkable. Frustrating, exasperating, eye-rolling, but also just the way it is, with its cast...

Reframing tax policy to reset the rules of the monopoly game

Monopolists and rentseekers have been running rings round the democratic fiscal state for decades. It is obvious to everyone that the game is rigged. But we still have a few more rolls of the...

Barangaroo is rubbish and now its wretched offspring are spawning across Sydney

Philip Thalis asserts thatBarangaroo is a symbol of squandered opportunities to make a better Sydney. I was part of the winning team – Hill Thalis Architecture + Urban Projects, Jane Irwin Landscape Architecture and...

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