Despite their ballooning wealth, the corporate rich are using their power to demand more tax breaksand protect their industrial-scale tax dodging. Peter Boyle reports.
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest are still at the top the Rich List, their fortunes growing because the mining boom and tax rules favouring the 1%. Josh Adams reports.
Those claiming that “activist” athletes are “mixing sports with politics”support a different type of politics. Alex Salmon argues we need to supportbrave players demanding their club not be used to enhance the reputation of corporations.
Australia’s richest person, Gina Rinehart, warns that unless the federal governmentrestrains its pandemic spending,the country will end up like Sri Lanka.Michael Cooke ԻLionel Bopage argue that this isneoliberal nonsense.
The federal government has delivered another budget for the billionaire class that is hell-bent on putting their profits ahead of the climate emergency, writes Peter Boyle.
Something smelly has been swirling around Canberra lately, and I am not talking about Clive Palmer’s locker at Parliament House, which hazmat teams are still trying to contain. No, I am talking about the fetid stench of parliamentary politics under capitalism.
Some would have seen One Nation Senator-elect Malcolm Roberts' performance on ABC's Q&A on August 15.
He went hammer and tong repeating ad nauseum that academics are doctoring the science, that the major science bodies are corrupt and that the science on climate change is anything but settled.
Here is one small excerpt from his exchange with British physicist Brian Cox:
Roberts: “I'm saying ... two things. First of all, that the [climate] data has been corrupted and we know that the 1930s were warmer than today.”
Will the trials and tribulations of trying to be a decent, hardworking billionaire in this nation ever end?
First, coalmining magnate Clive Palmer told that billionaires “were oppressed” in Australia, and, when asked if he was serious, said: “Yes, I get ridiculed all the time.”
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