It is extraordinary that the profit from Barnaby Joyce’s record payment for Australian water rights, an $80 million payment of taxpayers’ money, found its way to a company in the Cayman Islands which had been set up by Angus Taylor, a company at which Taylor had been a director for six years
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If this election is a referendum on wages, as Bill Shorten claims, then the minimum wage will be...
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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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China-Australia relations are going to be a big issue this election, particularly in the light of...
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Are corporations profiteering from water licences with the help of politicians? Academic researcher, Triskele, continues the investigation into why scientific evidence was ignored in the #MurrayDarling catastrophe
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Yesterday, Scott Morrison said on announcing the election: “Labor cannot manage...
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It doesn’t come as a surprise that Labor’s plan for the NBN starts with a full-blown technical and...
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Trump likes to claim he’s keeping his campaign promises, but most of them have been...
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It seems nobody has picked up the “fake cash splash” angle on Tuesday’s Budget, that is, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg’s trick of including last year’s tax relief to fatten this year’s numbers.
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Australia is falling behind other countries on a range of economic metrics. Alan Austin reports on Budget 2019 and this government’s performance against its global peers.
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Media majors yet to explain their publication of the Government’s exaggerated cash splash numbers. Here is a radio interview with ABC Radio Brisbane’s Rebecca Levingston.
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“Back in Black”! Fawningly, the Australian newspaper cut and pasted the Liberal Party press release. The Fin Review ran its predictable “Cash Splash” narrative. Nine Network’s Sydney Morning Herald splashed “$20 billion tax cuts
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Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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