Finance
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Fifth Pillar crumbles: why AMP policy-holders’ losses are Resolution’s profits.
This is now an election issue. AMP Life has more than a million policy-holders. Perhaps thrice this in stakeholders if dependents are included.
Tax
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PRRT Pipe-Dream: gas “crackdown” really a fawning tweak on a failed tax
High in their splendid eyries above Clarence and Collins streets, scores of tax advisers from EY, KPMG, PwC and Deloitte have been beating their fee-clocks by the hour, cooking up fancy new loopholes, plotting how to beat the system.
Energy
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As planet cooks, Coalition cooks the books on fossil fuel subsidies
According to the chair of the Coalition’s backbench energy committee, Craig Kelly, the RET’s...
Government
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Lack of leadership on innovation threatens Australia’s economic future
Manufacturing and media networking specialist, Peter Roberts, reports on the threat to...
Business
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National diet guidelines: health policy and corporate conflicts
How reliable is the Government’s dietary advice? From public hospital menus to school food programs, Australia's dietary guidelines inform health policy.
Markets
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Lendlease nasty surprise may not be the last
Shares in construction behemoth LendLease tanked on Friday, dusting almost $2 billion in a day. Is there more blood yet to be shed, and what the blazes is chief executive Steve McCann doing selling shares in his own stock?
The Scomo-ment
Chronicles of a Fleeting Prime Minister
Scomo-ment
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Where the bloody hell is Scott?
N'er one to to stand idle verbally, Scott has stepped up his already furious pace, fine-tuned the art of the lightning pit-stop
Despatch
News Takes and Updates
Despatch
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Golden Ticket Visas for Sale!
If you a a child fleeing persecution, we'll lock you up on somebody else's island against your wishes and the advice of doctors, but if you have a thick wallet, hey we'll sell you a visa.
Sydney Democracy Network
Sydney Democracy Network
Recent Stories
Australia’s wealth has shifted towards the rich. Again.
Australia’s wealth continues to shift to the wealthy, according to the latest Credit Suisse global wealth report. Meanwhile our world ranking and GDP per adult continue to tumble.
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Close to the wind: the trials of Liberal Money-Man Stuart Robert
Stuart Robert is one of the government’s big money-men. The Liberal Party looks after him as he is a gun fund-raiser who bankrolls campaigns in marginal seats.
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Defence spending keeps spiralling as embarrassed government blocks data
Defence spending used to account for little more than a fifth of government spending on procurement. Just seven years ago. Now it accounts for almost three-quarters
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Who’s got the energy mix to win the Victorian state election?
As the Victorian election looms, energy prices are a critical issue for voters. The Liberals espouse scrapping the renewable energy target and lifting the ban on onshore gas extraction. Labor has its program for expanding wind and solar.
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Long Lunch: Big Pharma payments to doctors
Why did drug giant Bayer give $4.3 million to doctors? Why did Sanofi give $3.3 million, or Amgen $3.3 million, Pfizer $2.9 million or AstraZeneca $2.5 million? Michael West reports on Big Pharma payments to doctors.
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Menadue: Ignore the planet and our grandchildren at our peril
With 83 percent of mining donations going to the Coalition, there’s no mystery about the...
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Post Mates: state monopoly capitalism fuses government with big business
Goldman Sachs has a $6 billion investment in Australia’s largest infrastructure company Transurban. Goldman is also advising the NSW government on the sale of WestConnex. It is a thumping conflict of interest.
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A case for rage against the corporate state
Small targets like strawberries and sails deflect the public attention from the things which really matter, the two great challenges to contemporary democracy: climate change and inequality
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Gladys versus Alan Jones and Australia’s most sackable chairman
Having buckled to Alan Jones in the Opera House debacle, Gladys Berejiklian faces another Jones-test this weekend, arguably a challenge of greater import, a challenge which may save lives.
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Vindication: dietitians cut ties with sugar lobby
The Dietitians Association of Australia has pledged to cut financial ties with the sugar lobby following a series of investigations by science journalist Dr Maryanne Demasi for michaelwest.com.au.
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Fees-for-no-service: ASIC performance bonuses revealed
As the victims of corporate crime rose, so did the “performance” bonuses at the corporate regulator
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Hayne says banks have corporate watchdog in the bag
They ran it like a business. Bonuses for top staff, deals done with the banks, negotiation rather than prosecution, press releases to spin their product, “tough” regulation.
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