The Centre for Public Integrity has published analysis of political donations and government contract work for Big 4 firms EY, KPMG, Deloitte and PwC. What’s the scam?
Source: Government gutted as PwC, Big 4 pick up $1.4b a year for giving advice – Michael West
Taxpayers stump up for “man shot in buttocks” journalism as Google Australia pays a pittance in tax again thanks to “world first media reforms”. Michael West reports on a joke.
Source: Google Australia pays pittance in tax, pays media moguls instead – Michael West
Documents tabled by MP Andrew Wilkie claim to show church used jobkeeper funds to help purchase Melbourne’s Festival Hall
Wow $12 and everybody is happy while we the people get screwed and pay
Be suspicious, be very suspicious! Albo is capping off Labor’s first year in office triumphant, his deal to cap gas and coal prices even lauded by the pro-gas corporate media. What’s the scam?
Source: Be suspicious: behind Albo’s masterstroke to cap fossil prices, ease power bills – Michael West
From flights to rewards QANTAS is not performing but is profiting how is that?
If the airline sector is so essential – and it clearly is in a vast country like Australia that is so far from other nations – healthy competition is vital. The federal government is happy to hand over billions of taxpayer dollars to Qantas to “save it” during the pandemic. Its surging return to record profits has made something of a lie of its pandemic era pleading.
Far better to place some restrictions on Qantas regarding landing rights, put some protections in place for Bonza – and perhaps Rex, consider forcing Qantas to divest Jetstar and give the industry the regulator which it has long needed.
Customers also need a no-nonsense legislated regime of money-back guarantees for cancellations, delays and other issues as they have in the EU, UK and New Zealand.
Catherine King, it’s your move.
Qantas is pulling back capacity to keep airfares up despite a lacklustre ACCC report which found ‘nothing to see here’ in airline competition
What’s the scam? It’s the fossil fuel corporations again, the usual suspects, paying no income tax despite billions in income. For yet another year: Exxon nought, Shell nought, Ampol, BP and APLNG nought, and Chevron putting them all to shame with the $30 in income tax paid on its $9bn in revenues.
Source: The Usual Suspects: tax office dump lays bare Australia’s biggest tax dodgers – Michael West
What began as an informal arrangement between neighbouring farmers, where one farm’s surplus water could be transferred to another, has over the past two decades morphed into a complex set of commodity markets whose annual turnover exceeds A$1.8 billion.
Source: Robber barons and high-speed traders dominate Australia’s water market
Advisors Consultants what do MPs really do in their hammocks other than memorising their talking points? (ODT)
via Government spending on consultants still soars despite economic calamity – Michael West
The universities that are the hardest to get into may not be delivering the best experience or employment outcomes for their students, new research shows.
Source: The Australian universities with the worst employment outcomes
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