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TAX AVOIDENCE
“We don’t have a shortage of supply; we have a glut of greed.”
While you’re sweating at the bowser and choosing between a heater or a steak, the suits in Canberra are busy polishing the shoes of...
PwC and the Adani mine triple dip. A conflict of interest? Surely not
A humble footnote on page 30 of the Northern Australia Infrastructure Facility’s 2016-17 annual report reads: “PwC supported NAIF in the development of its...
Tax rorts, consultants, external Government advisors embed in Government departments. Golly gee what’s the...
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...
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,...
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....
Yes, independents are agents of chaos … for the major parties
Jacqueline Maley write in
The Sydney Morning Herald
‘If you had said to me two years ago, I would be wearing an aqua T-shirt up in...
The Verdict: Labor tax solution better than Coalition, worse than Donald Trump
by Callum Foote
Timid, worse than Donald Trump but better than the Coalition. That’s the verdict on Labor’s policy to combat multinational tax avoiders. Although...
Why teal independents are seeking Liberal voters and spooking Liberal MPs
Why teal independents are seeking Liberal voters and spooking Liberal MPs
Amy Nethery, Deakin University
One of the Morrison government’s biggest challenges in this election campaign...
Fox and Murdochs lose another round in US$1.6b court case over channel’s Trump-inspired ‘rigged’...
Glenn Dyer writes in Crikey
Fox News, Fox Corporation and Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch continue to lose badly in the continuing US$1.6 billion defamation action...
Tony Windsor Rorters, rooters and the country’s lost decade
While the major parties play the traditional, convenient, presidential-style blame games, and the media placidly comply, a growing number in the electorate are clamouring...















