Foreign military contractors have been awarded a staggering $73 billion in contracts, apparently tax-free, because successive governments have struck contracts directly with offshore companies, even as far afield as the Atlantic tax haven of Bermuda.
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The best outcome for electricity consumers would be for state governments to kill the National...
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Global defence contractors are among the largest beneficiaries of Australian government spending. All the big names of military hardware operate here: from Boeing and Raytheon to Lockheed Martin and BAE.
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Malcolm Turnbull delivered a sometimes gushing pro-China speech at the University of NSW two days...
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A story about Australia’s corporate regulator titled, ASIC plans to rebrand itself as “strong, vigilant and fair”, was posted on the ABC’s website on Sunday evening. The story was taken down yesterday.
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“The @GBRFoundation deserves and will use every cent in its arsenal to save the reef,” declared Today Show host Karl Stefanovich over the weekend, hardly suspecting the Twitter onslaught which was to follow.
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What was ticking through the mind of Malcolm Turnbull when he pledged the best part of half a billion dollars to the small fossil-fuel-funded charity which is the Great Barrier Reef Foundation?
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At the current Senate Inquiry into ‘Financial and tax practices of for-profit aged care...
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At any level of development in any country, but especially from upper-middle incomes, growth...
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There is a conflict of interest in corporations operating aged care facilities in Australia. This is the conflict between maximising financial returns for shareholders and maintaining decent levels of care for the elderly.
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If you’re the sort of person who’s never had a parking ticket and has a similarly unremarkable medical history then you can almost certainly ignore this. On the other hand, if you are one of the one in three of women who have had a termination of pregnancy in their lifetime, or last year you were among the one in five people who had a mental health issue, or among the 125,000 people treated for an alcohol or drug problem, you need to read this.
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Eldercare profits are at record levels, numbers of trained nurses are down by a third, and the number of residents who need special care are up 50 per cent. The Senate Inquiry into the Financial and Tax Practices of For-Profit Aged-Care Providers kicks off tomorrow. Is the system broken? Are taxpayers getting value for money? In this opinion piece, Michael Wynne of Aged Care Crisis, an independent volunteer organisation which advocates for aged care residents, writes that cost-cutting and the pursuit of profits often come at the expense of care. As ageing demographics are exploding, the system needs an overhaul.
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