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The Thames Heist: how MacBank robbed the Poms
The UK’s biggest water utility was privatised and sold to Macquarie Group 11 years ago. It...
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KPMG, no sign of EY. Pfizer, pay it back
Bottom of the canal: Pfizer’s billion-dollar tax rort Pfizer and KPMG had ample time to...
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Coalition tries again to strip eco-charities of tax-deductibility status
Once again, the Coalition Government is trying to cripple environment groups by stripping away...
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Impunity for tycoon Taib in Australia’s money-laundering paradise
Australia’s status as a paradise for money launderers will be further entrenched in coming...
Terrorists: read the fine print!
Terrorists and evil masterminds pursuing world domination are now on notice. They are required to inform paint-maker PPG Industries if their paint is to be used in rockets or chemical and biological weapons.
Airport robbery; a narrow escape from Spanish bandits
In a robbery, it is customary for the robber to approach the victim. This is not the case however...
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Chinese Guanxi: when contacts are more important than contracts
Although more than one-third of Australia’s entire trade is now with China, in many transactions, contacts are more important than contracts. Stonewall Resources, a gold company listed on the ASX with a gold project in...
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Most self-respecting money-launderers charge ten per cent. At CBA they charged $22 a trade, that is $22 for every remittance to Hong Kong. In other words, CBA – the winner of last year’s Australian Financial Review...
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Ian Narev should go: CBA can’t spin its way out of money laundering crisis
The Commonwealth Bank is chalking up ignoring a massive amount of money laundering to...
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Turnbull to Trump: “We’ve stopped the boats”. Not true, says John Menadue
Peter Hughes and John Menadue posted two blogs in September 2015 (‘Slogans versus facts on boat...
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Bottom of the canal: Pfizer’s billion-dollar tax rort
New York pharma giant Pfizer has engaged in a series of paper transactions to create artificial share capital and a $936 million loss in Australia.
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If #SSM doesn’t wreck it, NBN or Murray-Darling might
If things weren’t already terrible for the Turnbull Government on marriage equality, the...
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Pet aversion: energy retailers in “savage dog” meter scam
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The ABA of bowhunters, breastfeeders and bankers
“Don’t you know we are facing three bank taxes?” the PR man from the Australian...
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98 … pfft, yer never too old for a Westpac 30-year mortgage
It is the steadfast policy of this news service to never look a gift-horse in the mouth. So it is...
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And they beat us in the PBS too
It’s a good thing for baby boomers that young people have been locked out of the property market....
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How Johnson & Johnson cut its risk in vaginal mesh lawsuit.
* The world’s biggest healthcare group has quietly cut its exposure to victims in its...
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Travellers: don’t get ripped off on your currency conversion
When travelling, and offered the opportunity to pay in your own currency, think twice, it’s...
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The Gilead and the taxpayer Odyssey
How much can a multinational take before its social licence to operate in this country expires?...
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Gilead top brass still missing despite desperate search efforts
Dear readers, we are distressed to inform you that the leadership team of Gilead Sciences in...
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G20 to tread water on tax as tensions rise
A G20 meeting offers magnificent opportunities for sightseeing, catching up with friends from...
Read More“Ridiculous”
Sky News accidentally presented a good chance to set the record straight against claims in Murdoch...
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Opening statement to Senate Tax Inquiry
Statement by Michael West to the the Senate Economics Reference Committee inquiry into...
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Breaking Bad: the tax antics of drug giant Abbvie
* Australians are paying four-times too much for drugs * Big Pharma is subsidised by taxpayers on...
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Gas shortage! What gas shortage?
Gas Shortage? What shortage, asks IEEFA analyst Bruce Robertson in Part One of his analysis of who...
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Diamonds are not Forever
As Australia’s resources boom wanes, several Indigenous communities that were once promised...
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Global warming’s huge and endless cost of rising seas
Protecting coastal infrastructures is just the beginning of our battle to survive the...
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Goldman Sachs & News Corp tax tricks as Canberra claims battle won
Peering at the local accounts of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Goldman Sachs … is the...
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Cagey Chinese raider HNA needs eye of FIRB
China-watcher Michael Sainsbury is hoping the appointment of former spook David Irvine to the...
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Airbnb: Cuban design, Cuban disclosure
“Our new Sydney office captures what we value as a company: creativity, travel, and thoughtful...
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