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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....
Farcical scenes as media banned from Deves event
DODGING QUESTIONS
Voters and Liberal Party members were kept waiting more than 45 minutes to meet controversial candidate Katherine Deves last night as advisers schemed...
Why the days of safe Liberal seats are almost over
By Richard DennisHere is one truth about this election: the Liberal Party is risking its future on a prime minister who likely doesn’t have...
History repeats: how O’Farrell and Greiner fell foul of ICAC
In April 2014, the New South Wales Independent Commission into Corruption (ICAC) claimed its biggest political scalp in two decades. Liberal state premier Barry...
Women — teal, red or green — are this election’s central stor
Madonna King writes in Crikey
As much as this election is a story shunning Scott Morrison, it’s also a story about the rise of strong,...
Taylor’s obsession with failing, inflationary coal will help kill off AGL split
By Bernard Keane
Crikey Politics Editor
Scott Morrison and Angus Taylor have spent the past three and a half years trying to chain Australia to an...















