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High profile government strategy and economic policy adviser, Dr Michael Keating, refutes the claim about middle and high-income earners facing some of world’s highest tax rates if the Morrison Government’s $158 billion tax plan is not passed in full.
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The Coalition’s botched NBN is not just a costly technological failure, but a policy debacle that has cost Australia’s taxpayers billions of dollars. Kim Wingerei reports.
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This month’s national accounts show wages have slumped to the lowest on record. Australia is now in record low territory when it comes to sharing the nation’s largesse with its workers compared to the rest of the developed world. Alan Austin reports.
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“Nothing to see here,” said Scomo, following misconduct allegations over Angus Taylor allegedly trying to influence Josh Frydenberg to weaken laws to escape prosecution by a company he part owns.
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“This ticks so many boxes,” an adamant George Christensen told Seven News. “Local jobs, indigenous self-empowerment, indigenous training, local jobs”.
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Six people exercise extraordinary power in the current parliament. They are the Senate cross-benchers, senators whose votes are wanted, and courted, by both the Coalition government and the Opposition – to either pass laws or block them.
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It’s not global headwinds causing Australia’s economy to tank. As Alan Austin argues, we should be catching the global tailwinds — if the captain of the ship only had a proper map, his first mate could work the compass and the petty officers didn’t get tangled up in the rigging.
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British billionaire Sir Michael Hintze’s penchant for poaching former Liberal Party Australian High Commissioners has seen Richard Alston and Alexander Downer flit in and out of his orbit but his most enduring connections are Angus and Richard Taylor.
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“A million dead fish can’t be beat”, proclaimed one nomination for the inaugural Australia’s Most Hopeless Regulator (AMHR) Award. Indeed, in what is a fiercely contested field, the Murray Darling Basin Authority
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If Prime Minister Scott Morrison went to the election in May to beat potentially bad economic news, it was an extremely well-judged decision. Alan Austin reports.
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AS THE cold mist from the Thames River dispersed in the winter evenings of the early 1990s, three young men from Oxford University would make the pilgrimage between their digs at the prestigious New College and the college rowing sheds on the Isis river.
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The cat is out of the bag. Bank shares have shot up since the surprise election result as new investors pile onto the great franking credits bandwagon. Sandi Keane reports.
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Australian politicians and bureaucrats with links to fossil fuel & resource extraction industries.
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