Killing it: Australian Unity takes its elderly Home Care customers to the cleaners
“Thanks for your enquiry. Australian Unity declines to comment to (sic) your enquiry or respond to the report you refer to (sic)”.
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Independent media continues to grow while mainstream media stagnates
With independent media on the rise, author and commentator, Kim Wingerei, who has just launched theIndependents, looks at the top performers. Traffic for this website is up 60 per cent
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Image over Substance: AFR Business Summit calls for a better “narrative”
Australia’s business elite remains convinced all it needs to do to restore community trust...
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Home Care: operators snipping 50pc fees from the elderly in home care
“Some providers are taking up to 53 per cent of the package in fees. Other providers only...
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The Low GI Label: sound science or a ploy for product promotion?
Is it ethical to promote the health benefits of “low GI” labelling? How about multinational food companies paying to have their products certified? At best, it provides little value to the consumer, writes science journalist Dr Maryanne Demasi
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Hayne’s Final: impressive tinkering but big banking flaws remain (Part 2)
Customer service failed to get a guernsey in Commissioner Hayne’s Final Report and herein...
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Australian independent media on the rise
The coming of the Internet was the media world’s first real game-changer. Profits enjoyed...
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East Timor’s dangerous mix of gas, revenge politics and Chinese money
With the Chinese looking to gain an infrastructure funding foothold in East Timor, here is the...
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Inside a corporate doppelganger: how bet365 bets on apathy
They were tripping over it, diving through it, springing in the air above it to make spectacular catches; the bet365 ad that is, the ad which doubled as a boundary rope at the Test Cricket this year.
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Booking.com’s Australian taxpayer arrangements a legal sham
Booking.com should be at or near the top of the Tax Office’s list of grand tax avoiders but the revenue authorities seem wilfully blind to the true nature of this giant online travel agency
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Time to call a truce in the war on drugs
Is it time to call a truce in the war on drugs? Dr James Freeman looks at the evidence; and the evidence shows prohibition has failed.
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Exclusive: ANZ chief faces criminal prosecution
ANZ chief Shayne Elliott has become the subject of a criminal prosecution.
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Revolving Doors
Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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