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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Barnaby Joyce, Angus Taylor and the $80 million question
"Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor". This is a direct quote from the epic interview of Barnaby Joyce by Patricia Karvelas on ABC Radio last week. As is, "Labor, Labor, Labor, Labor". Michael West reports on the unfolding #Watergate saga.
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Top 40 Tax Heroes: who pays the most tax in Australia?
Which corporations make the best contribution to Australia's tax base, per dollar earned? Who tips in most for our defence and health, our roads and bridges?
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Stopping Adani is a no-brainer — economically, financially and for our survival
The Adani pile-on continues apace this week with Bob Brown’s Stop Adani convoy, Queensland...
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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.
Business
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Dietitians Backslide – dump corporate sponsorships, invite ads instead
Is the DAA back to its old tricks? After investigations here into food giants such as Nestle and Sanitarium financing the Dietitian’s Association of Australia
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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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Watergate: when two rights do make a wrong
The evidence is firming that the Government spent $80 million buying air, not water.
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Big Four: inquiry into government consultancy binge gets buried
The inquiry into the federal government’s spendathon on government contracts, especially on that global elite of corporate welfare recipients, the Big Four audit firms, has been axed
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Don’t let sneaky graphs fool you: minimum wages do not cost jobs
If this election is a referendum on wages, as Bill Shorten claims, then the minimum wage will be...
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KPMG: “do as I say, not as I do” just check out Aldi
Quod ego dico, non quod ego faciam. That should be KPMG’s motto. Do what I say, not what I do. It has a ring to it, but more importantly, it goes to the heart of the firm’s business model: quae abscondam – hide stuff.
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Whose Budget? Fill This Space
The Budget was never passed. Australia has no budget, but it has an election. And the money allocated last year starts to run out on July 1. It is the current Senate, not the new one, whatever that is, which needs to sit to fix this
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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