It’s been quite the innings for some of Australia’s wealthiest billionaires. Certain large proprietary companies owned by the establishment – Secret Rich-Listers as we call them – have been cloaked in darkness by government legislation for more than a quarter of a century. Luke Stacey reports how South Australian Senator Rex Patrick is fighting to buck the trend and demolish Australia’s Secret Rich List once and for all.
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Census 2021 is almost upon us: What’s the Scam?
Desperate to avoid a repeat of ‘Censusfail 2016’, the Australian Bureau of Statistics received $38 million from government coffers to ensure the success of 2021. Will it prove to be money well spent?
Toxic Waste Rebranded: Australia bans Third World dumping, leaves giant toxic loophole
“It’s our waste, it’s our problem”, said Scott Morrison as he announced the nation’s waste export ban culminating in 2024. Not really. It’s a good thing Australia has banned solid waste dumping to the Third World but we have left a gaping, toxic loophole; burning plastics for energy. Luke Stacey investigates.
Ocean Waste: how plastic recyclers downplay their use of new plastics
Beware recycled plastics. They often contain virgin plastics, the very plastics the recyclers say they are fighting. Luke Stacey investigates green vanguard and their recycling claims and finds, while they do good work in raising public awareness, they could certainly be more transparent.
CitiPower, Powercor: What’s the Scam?
Scammer exposed! A fitting title for the latest financial accounts of billionaire-owned electricity giant Victoria Power Networks, the largest energy operator in Victoria which runs the CitiPower and Powercor networks. But are they getting off with a light sentence from the Tax Office?
NSW pokies: What’s the Scam?
NSW has the world’s worst pokies losses per capita at $7 billion per year, equivalent to more than $1,200 for each adult. It’s a boon for the state’s coffers but the government is proposing reforms to stem the losses, or is it? What’s the scam?
“Unspecified” political donations: What’s the Scam?
Has the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) just made it easier to hide political donations? It doesn’t appear to know, really. What’s the scam?
PET Project: petrochemical giants exploit recycling to ramp up plastics production
Australians try to do the right thing each week by separating recyclables into colour-coded wheelie bins. Meanwhile, the plastics industry is ramping up production of virgin plastic. Luke Stacey reports.
PEP11: What’s the scam?
The speculators behind the PEP11 project to drill for gas off the coast of Sydney-Newcastle say they are tendering for drilling equipment. Is this long-shot project really any closer to reality? What’s the scam?
Inland Ports, Tricky Politics: Chris Corrigan’s Qube reels in $1.7bn public land sale
Chris Corrigan, golden boy of the Liberal Party, villain of Labor, won a $1.7bn windfall for his company Qube in a Sydney land deal. Luke Stacey investigates the business and politics of the Corrigan deal as Melbourne prepares to announce its own inland port. Taxpayers beware.
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Gas Myths: Australians pay 7th highest prices in world despite being biggest gas exporter
Australia is the biggest exporter of gas, bar none, in the world, yet we are paying the seventh-highest prices for gas in the world. Callum Foote reports on the gas cartel and the myth there is a gas “market”.
Penny Wong on war powers reform
Penny Wong's office gave Michael West Media the same response Brendan O'Connor provided, but added that an Albanese Labor government was committed to holding an inquiry into the issue. When asked whether Penny Wong believes Parliament should be consulted before...
Homeopaths Overrun, As Anti-Lockdown Protesters Report ‘Strange Onset Of Flu-Like Symptoms’
<!– by The Shovel –> Australia’s homeopaths, energy healers and wellness professionals have reported a surge in demand, after a ‘strange and unexplainable’ increase in flu-like symptoms amongst their customers. Carrol Straitjakit from the Alternative...
Where there’s a bill there’s a way: Rex Patrick’s dogged fight against Coalition to repeal billionaires’ loophole
It’s been quite the innings for some of Australia’s wealthiest billionaires. Certain large proprietary companies owned by the establishment – Secret Rich-Listers as we call them – have been cloaked in darkness by government legislation for more than a quarter of a century. Luke Stacey reports how South Australian Senator Rex Patrick is fighting to buck the trend and demolish Australia’s Secret Rich List once and for all.
Protesters Believe Government That Can’t Even Organise A Vax Rollout Is ‘Controlling Them’
<!– by The Shovel –> Thousands of protesters in Sydney and Melbourne believe that a government that misplaced $60 billion last year, had to bribe voters to secure the election and can’t even manage to organise a vaccine rollout with 18 month’s notice...
