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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,...
Mutually assured corruption
What is most curious about John Barilaro is the honesty of his politics. Not in the conventional sense of integrity or commitment to the...
Not Scott Not Albo No Winners Except maybe
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No winner in ugly leaders’ debate
Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese shouted over the top of each other and largely ignored...
Can the politics of ‘nice’ finally break News Corp’s outrage machine?
Will Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s shiny “gentler, kinder politics” break News Corp? Or will News Corp, once again, triumph over the paradigm of nice?...
After the relentless performance art of Morrison’s reign, Australia needs a reset
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian
There will be plenty of time for postmortems of election campaigns after Saturday night. As the clock winds down...
Australian Electoral Commission investigating fake signs suggesting independents are Greens
The Australian Electoral Commission is investigating a series of doctored posters that have appeared overnight incorrectly showing the names and faces of "teal" independent...















