Big Four: government’s binge on consultants goes ballistic
The Big Four global accounting firms have banked $3.1 billion in taxpayer income in the past six years for government consulting.
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Skipping confession: Archbishop affirms pokies patronage
The Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, Anthony Fisher, and Bishop David Cremlin have refused to distance the Church from the poker machine industry by confirming they will remain patrons of two of the biggest poker machine venues in Australia.
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Fibros v Silvertails: picking the pokies premiership
Hawthorn Football Club may have been knocked out of the finals already but when it comes to the pokies premiership, the Hawks have dominated yet again. Same deal for Canterbury Bankstown in the Rugby League.
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Pokies: the Rise of the Machines
There is a mass transfer of wealth afoot, a transfer of wealth from the poorer city suburbs and rural regions to the wealthier parts of Sydney
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Government spending soars amid blow-out in no-tender contracts
AS the federal election looms next year, there is a multi-billion dollar blow-out in government spending on contracts which have not gone out for tender; and this spending has been rapidly escalating in recent weeks and months.
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Love a flutter? Here’s a flutter!
Imagine a local council area where households lost, on average, $8,865.60 each on the pokies a year. Okay, you can stop imagining now. There is no such fantasy. That council is Murray River in the south-west of NSW.
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Investigation: dietitians lobby infiltrates public policy but fails accreditation
The processed food industry has infiltrated the Dietitians Association of Australia and the Dietitians Association – with its sugar and cereal lobby funding – has infiltrated public health policy, as documented here.
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Holy Dooley, Catholic clubs make a killing from poker machines
DOOLEYS Lidcombe Catholic Club has raked in more than half a billion dollars from poker machines over the past ten years. That’s $511 million of customer losses from just one club.
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Turnbull’s pro-China lovefest another casualty as Huawei gets the flick
Just two weeks after China watcher, Michael Sainsbury, warned that Turnbull’s pro-China lovefest...
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Bruce Guthrie: Hello Rupert, goodbye Malcolm
Anyone who doubts Rupert Murdoch’s role in the political chaos that has played out in recent days...
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Telstra caught in a perfect storm as 5G and the NBN threaten major disruption
Telstra has failed, in the past, to take advantage of its position as the essential core of a...
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