As the Victorian election looms, energy prices are a critical issue for voters. The Liberals espouse scrapping the renewable energy target and lifting the ban on onshore gas extraction. Labor has its program for expanding wind and solar.
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Why did drug giant Bayer give $4.3 million to doctors? Why did Sanofi give $3.3 million, or Amgen $3.3 million, Pfizer $2.9 million or AstraZeneca $2.5 million? Michael West reports on Big Pharma payments to doctors.
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With 83 percent of mining donations going to the Coalition, there’s no mystery about the...
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Goldman Sachs has a $6 billion investment in Australia’s largest infrastructure company Transurban. Goldman is also advising the NSW government on the sale of WestConnex. It is a thumping conflict of interest.
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Small targets like strawberries and sails deflect the public attention from the things which really matter, the two great challenges to contemporary democracy: climate change and inequality
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Having buckled to Alan Jones in the Opera House debacle, Gladys Berejiklian faces another Jones-test this weekend, arguably a challenge of greater import, a challenge which may save lives.
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As the victims of corporate crime rose, so did the “performance” bonuses at the corporate regulator
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They ran it like a business. Bonuses for top staff, deals done with the banks, negotiation rather than prosecution, press releases to spin their product, “tough” regulation.
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So matey is KPMG with the federal government that, out of $3.1 billion in fees earned by the Big Four global accounting firms from government contracts between 2012 and last week, KPMG earned almost one billion dollars, or one-third of all the work.
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On any measure, the WestConnex sale is not in the public interest. University of Sydney’s...
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The media is awash with stories this week of how Rupert Murdoch and Kerry Stokes “war-gamed” the political execution of former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull. Nothing new there.
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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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