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“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....
Could the 2022 election result in a hung parliament? History shows Australians have nothing...
Could the 2022 election result in a hung parliament? History shows Australians have nothing to fear from it
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Frank Bongiorno, Australian National University and...
Beware the ‘mog’: If only politicians realised playing God is not their job
Queensland’s politicians need be less god-like and more business-like when it comes to “mogging” their public servants
writes Robert MacDonald.
Once you start looking for lack...
The Ernies have been watching Scott Morrison make a dick of himself for years...
Meredith Burgmann writes in Crikey
Opinion / Politics
The Ernies have been watching Scott Morrison make a dick of himself for years — here’s what they’ve...
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...
Leaders’ debate will shape the final weeks of the campaign
By SMH's David RoweThere were many big moments in the debate between Scott Morrison and Anthony Albanese on Sunday night, but one key point...















