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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....
Morrison ramps up class war with intergenerational wealth shift — yet pitches at first-time...
Bernard Keane writes in Crikey May 15, 2022
Scott Morrison has made senior homeowners the centre of the federal Liberal election launch, promising to allow...
By what measure is Australia’s economy leading the world? We went searching
By Alan AustinThe Coalition’s repeated claims that Australia’s economy is one of the world’s strongest can be refuted by simply looking at the numbers.
At...
Lessons from the teal seats
Simon Holmes à Court
outlines the Lessons from the teal seatsThe phrase was coined by a volunteer for Sophie Scamps in Mackellar, but it...
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,...
Pity Australia’s voters: awful leaders’ debate cursed by absurd format and incoherent hectoring
Katharine Murphy writes in The Guardian
Sun 8 May 2022 23.40 AEST
It’s hard to find words for how terrible that second leaders’ debate was....















