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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,...
Ben Carson Is Running for President
Migrants and refugees flooding into Europe have presented European leaders and policymakers with their greatest challenge since the debt crisis. The International Organization for...
Morrison washes his hands of teal contests as Liberals roll out two-tier campaign
Prime Minister Scott Morrison has all but washed his hands of campaigns to save inner-city moderate Liberal MPs facing serious challenges from “teal” independents.
Mr...
Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a...
Politics with Michelle Grattan: Andrew Wilkie invites independent candidates to call him for a chat about approaching a hung parliament
Michelle Grattan, University of Canberra
Andrew...
Oh, for the stability of a ‘hung parliament’
It’s pretty amusing that a party that has had three prime ministers and three treasurers in nine years is warning about the chaos and...
The PM previously said Albanese had no power to do anything about wages –...
Katherine Murphy writes in The Guardian
Perhaps it was the new opinion poll that dropped just hours before the final leaders’ debate of the 2022...