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TAX AVOIDENCE
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....
Times have changed
Veteran economist and one-time Bob Hawke adviser Ross Garnaut put forward some Very Big Ideas in last night’s Jobs and Skills Summit keynote address,...
Labor aims for $1.9b from multinational tax crackdown
The federal government lost an estimated $6bn in revenue in 2014 as a consequence of tax avoidance by multinational corporations with Australian operations, according...
The class war is back, and Morrison and the media are waging it
By Crikey's Bernard Keane
Remember “class war”? References to class war were incessant in the 2019 campaign, with Bill Shorten portrayed as a class warrior...
Voice from The Heart
The Uluru Statement from the Heart outlines the path forward for recognising Indigenous Australians in the nation's constitution.
It was endorsed with a standing ovation...
The truth about political donations: there is so much we don’t know
The truth about political donations: there is so much we don't know
AEC disclosures revealed Malcolm Turnbull to be the single biggest donor to a...
Violence Has Forced 60 Million People From Their Homes
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for...