Monday, April 20, 2026

Clive Palmer, his money and his billboards are back. What does this mean for the 2022 federal election?

Clive Palmer, his money and his billboards are back. What does this mean for the 2022 federal election? Susan Harris Rimmer, Griffith University Clive Palmer has had a tough run leading up to the 2022 election...

Paid access to politicians

The former chairman and co-founder of Aspen Medical has revealed how the company obtained access to senior ranks of the Coalition government by participating in political fundraising and appointing a former Liberal cabinet minister...

Carbon state: Coalition changed rules to save fossil fuel donor tens of millions

By Bernard Keane The failed Gorgon carbon capture and storage (CCS) project could be spared more than $100 million in costs after the Morrison government intervened to change the rules around Australian Carbon Credit Units,...

Newscorp runs Government

Regulators expect Google and Facebook to sue the Government over a looming “mates-deal” to protect Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Nine Entertainment from competition. Taxpayers will be on the hook. Quentin Dempster reports on...

Tax rorters 2017-2018 Groundhog Day

Alan Joyce CEO of Qantas has a take home salary of A$24,500,000 which turns out to be more than double the $10,955,067 tax Qantas begrudgingly paid to Australia. Effectively taxpayers have underwritten - kicked...

The big con: how neoliberals (Liberal & National Party) convinced us there wasn’t enough to go around

The big con: how neoliberals convinced us there wasn't enough to go around Richard DennisAustralia just experienced one of the biggest mining booms in world history. But even at the peak of that boom, there...

The 2019 Budget entrenches neoliberal inequality

I’ve listened hard for the sound of wealth trickling down but all I hear is the sound of the excluded still waiting Amid the fanfare heralding a surplus that is better described as being more...

Banking RC Report: The banks have learned how to rort the system

The Banking RC Report marginalises small business borrowers, effectively calling them sore losers and whingers and telling them to bugger off once and for all, writes Dr Evan Jones. THE Financial Services Royal Commission Final Report has generated...

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