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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#Watergate: the billionaire, the minister and the accidental diplomats
British billionaire Sir Michael Hintze's penchant for poaching former Liberal Party Australian High Commissioners has seen Richard Alston and Alexander Downer flit in and out of his orbit but his most enduring connections are Angus and Richard Taylor.
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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.
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Adani: why would a billionaire persist with a financial lemon?
Why would a billionaire persist with a mine that will probably lose money? John Quiggin explains....
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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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Investigation: The Sydney Institute’s Gala Balls-up
"The Annual Dinner is an occasion for a prominent personality to present a serious lecture to an audience of some 900 paying guests – after they have enjoyed dinner and over an hour of networking.
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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...
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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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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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Watergate ducking and dodging: More questions from Jommy Tee and Ronni Salt
The saga of #Watergate – the $80 million water buyback fiasco – has now been widely canvassed. However, questions surrounding further mysterious parts of the issue still remain, especially concerning the long and very close relationship between two of the key figures in the story — Angus Taylor and Dr Tony Reid. Jommy Tee and Ronni Salt investigate.
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Watergate: An ecosystem cultivated for sharks won’t support goldfish
Mismanagement of the Murray Darling Basin has now reached such farcical proportions, it’s hard not to be reminded of Mark Twain’s edict “Truth is Stranger than Fiction”. How did this level of ineptitude, cock-ups, rorts and cronyism flourish unchecked for so long? Triskele examines the many angles of the Watergate scandal and reports.
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Fact check: Employment in Australia is worse than you think
In case RMIT/ABC Fact Check have missed this, Alan Austin analyses the facts and refutes the...
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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