Top 40 Tax Dodgers for 2019
We are counting down Australia’s biggest Corporate Tax Dodgers using 4 years Australian Tax Office transparency data.
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Can APRA defend AMP Life against the “spawn of the devil”?
The Cayman Islands is the destination du jour for Australian hospitals and water profits but far more is bound for Bermuda. Michael West on tax haven risk for AMP Life policyholders and their $100 billion in assets.
Tax
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Bill Koch: tax dodges of the American super rich (Part 2)
It's all here ... a tax audit, a cover-up and a neighbour in the Oval Office. David Cay Johnston continues his investigation into super rich, tax dodging business owners like William Ingraham Koch.
Energy
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Shine Energy: behind the push for a new coal-fired power station
"This ticks so many boxes," an adamant George Christensen told Seven News. "Local jobs, indigenous self-empowerment, indigenous training, local jobs".
Government
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How to win on wages: lessons from Australia and abroad
This month's national accounts show wages have slumped to the lowest on record. Australia is now in record low territory when it comes to sharing the nation's largesse with its workers compared to the rest of the developed world. Alan Austin reports.
Business
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Watergate Crew: the regatta of mates behind Australia’s richest water deal
AS THE cold mist from the Thames River dispersed in the winter evenings of the early 1990s, three young men from Oxford University would make the pilgrimage between their digs at the prestigious New College and the college rowing sheds on the Isis river.
Markets
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Why honest investors are losing out on the stock market
Insider trading, market manipulation, “pumping and dumping”. It’s a day in the...
Despatch
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Despatch
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MW30: the numbers which count
This is the "MW30", a bunch of numbers to track key changes in Australian politics and economy.
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What global economic headwinds, Mathias?
It’s not global headwinds causing Australia’s economy to tank. As Alan Austin argues, we should be catching the global tailwinds — if the captain of the ship only had a proper map, his first mate could work the compass and the petty officers didn’t get tangled up in the rigging.
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Unveiled: Australia’s Most Hopeless Regulator
“A million dead fish can’t be beat”, proclaimed one nomination for the inaugural Australia’s Most Hopeless Regulator (AMHR) Award. Indeed, in what is a fiercely contested field, the Murray Darling Basin Authority
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Data Dumped: it’s all bad news for the Australian economy
If Prime Minister Scott Morrison went to the election in May to beat potentially bad economic news, it was an extremely well-judged decision. Alan Austin reports.
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The Fix Is In: Adani hooks India’s poor and Australia’s taxpayers
Defying all odds, prospects for Adani’s coal mine in the Galilee Basin have never looked better. This is a risk for Australia, and the world
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Election 2019: how good is plutocracy!
“A triumph of image over substance, fear over logic, politics over policy”. Michael West reports on Election 2019 and the inexorable rise of corporate power over democracy.
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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