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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Finance
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Government and Debt: do as we say, not as we do
The Government campaigned on a platform of surplus. "Superior economic management," they claimed. Now, with the economy tanking, they are asking people to spend.
Tax
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Radical Republican tax cuts are bankrupting America
With Trump in the Oval Office, the US government spends like the world will end tomorrow. Is there a lesson here for the Morrison Government? DCReport Editor-in-Chief, David Cay Johnston, reports on how Republican tax cuts are bankrupting America.
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Energy
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Selling the LNG myth : false economics, selective accounting and political capture
Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) is a trillion-dollar, climate change-inducing value destruction machine. It relies on false economics, selective accounting and political capture. Stewart Taggart reports.
Government
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Extinction Crisis: Director of National Parks slammed by audit amid decade funding squeeze
IN APRIL 2017, the Commonwealth Director of National Parks (DNP) translocated eight endangered Norfolk Island green parrots from Norfolk Island to what was hoped would be their new home on Phillip Island.
Business
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ClubsNSW: silent on toxic pokies culture
The thuggish ClubsNSW, poker machine promoter extraordinaire and champion of NSW clubs' billion dollar pokies income, is given to whining about media coverage of the predatory clubs pokies culture. Yet this publication is yet to hear "boo".
Markets
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Indiore and Twitter: one good suspension deserves another
Lawyers are fond of sending threat letters and demanding those who receive them keep it "Private and Confidential". There is no basis in law for keeping unsolicited threats "Private and Confidential".
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Despatch
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ClubsNSW: silent on toxic pokies culture
The thuggish ClubsNSW, poker machine promoter extraordinaire and champion of NSW clubs' billion dollar pokies income, is given to whining about media coverage of the predatory clubs pokies culture. Yet this publication is yet to hear "boo".
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India’s water crisis: alarm bells for Australia, world economy
The arrival of monsoon season may not be enough to save India from the grip of a devastating water crisis. At what point does national crisis evolve to global catastrophe? Michael Sainsbury reports.
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While global household incomes grow thanks to the boom, here’s why ours keep falling
When it comes to household income, Australians continue to miss out on the current boom being shared elsewhere in comparable countries. Why? Because the Coalition has set the levers – tax levels, tax non-collections, wages, penalty rates, government spending, infrastructure investment or rather lack of – to maximise corporate profits at the expense of most Australians. @AlanAustin001 reports.
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Pay Day: Christopher Pyne’s Defence bonanza a fee fillip for EY
It dwarfs all other government spending. It is secretive. A huge chunk of it does not even go out to tender. The lion’s share goes to foreign multinationals who pay no tax in Australia. It is defence spending.
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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.
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Rowers’ Reprise: how Angus Taylor’s mates cleaned up without him
“Nothing to see here,” said Scomo, following misconduct allegations over Angus Taylor allegedly trying to influence Josh Frydenberg to weaken laws to escape prosecution by a company he part owns.
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Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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