Category: Business

Oracle and Accenture: big tax dodgers queued for visa privatisation prize

by Michael West and Michael Sainsbury -- 16 Oct 2019 -- Business, Featured, Tax

Should the Government award contracts to tax cheating multinationals? The subject is likely to be covered when the Parliamentary Inquiry into the Big Four accounting firms kicks off late this year, the Big Four themselves being the ringmasters of global tax chicanery

Toxic Tests: why is US Army funding Tafenoquine drug trials on Perth students?

by Stuart McCarthy -- 08 Oct 2019 -- Business, Comment Analysis, Featured

Why is the US army funding antimalarial trials on Perth’s cash-strapped students with a drug found to be neurotoxic a decade ago?

Streaming Wars: the battle for Australian subscriptions heats up

by Anthony Eales -- 08 Oct 2019 -- Business

From Netflix and Stan to Amazon Prime Video, YouTube Premium and Foxtel/Kayo Sports, Australia is a battleground for worldwide entertainment behemoths and local players vying for our collective eyeballs and our streaming dollars

The Streisand Effect: lawyers’ threats backfire amid the rising trade in hurt feelings

by Michael West -- 04 Oct 2019 -- Business, Comment Analysis

Clive Palmer is suing Youtube sensation Jordan Shanks for defamation. Instead of capitulating however, Shanks doubled down and tore strips off Palmer in the funniest response to a legal threat yet.

Big Cotton eyes off the wild rivers of Northern Australia

by Triskele -- 02 Oct 2019 -- Business, Comment Analysis

Water chasers, with Big Cotton as the central actor, are eyeing off the wild rivers of Northern Australia.

Whither the Economy? the MWI measures the Government on its own priorities

by Michael West -- 27 Sep 2019 -- Business, The Economy

Where is the Australian economy heading? The new MW Index rates the Government according to the...

A Netflix Original: Dreams of Theft Downunder

by Michael West and Jeffrey Knapp -- 24 Sep 2019 -- Business, Tax

Dreams of Tax Theft Downunder is the story of Netflix Inc, a company from the United States which lusts after tax-free money from Downunder. Masquerading as a small-time debt collector,

Mates Deal: ASIC tweaks the law, #Watergate data buried

by Michael West -- 21 Sep 2019 -- Business, Government

The company at the centre of the #Watergate scandal has been gifted a cushy exemption from filing financial reports by the corporate regulator.

China drives Australian flying school frenzy — and punters are out for blood

by Michael Sainsbury -- 20 Sep 2019 -- Business, Finance

The expected arrival of thousands of Chinese pilot training students over the next decade is driving the current Australian pilot training school frenzy – and the punters are out for blood, Michael Sainsbury reports.

Worried about agents of foreign influence? Just look at who owns Australia’s biggest companies

by Clinton Fernandes -- 12 Sep 2019 -- Business, Markets

The attention being given to possible covert influence being exercised by China in Australia shouldn’t distract us from recognising that very overt foreign influence now occurs through investment. Clinton Fernandes reports.

Aldi bag flush with cash or party fundraiser, same outcome. Ban donations

by Kim Wingerei -- 11 Sep 2019 -- Business, Comment Analysis, Government

Political party donations are bribes. They should be banned. Defining bribery is more important than a federal ICAC, writes Kim Wingerei.

Apple Smarts: iPhone as much a creature of public subsidy as private brilliance

by Clinton Fernandes -- 06 Sep 2019 -- Business

At the eve of Apple’s iPhone 11 launch, Professor Clinton Fernandes reminds us that, without US federal funding and government protection of Apple’s interests, iPhone’s touch-screen, LCD and even Siri would never have seen the light of day.