Business
We need to talk about Facebook

Social media data abuses by tech giants and political parties will continue as long as "you're ...  
Donald Trump: A Ponzi Presidency

The rules of a Ponzi scheme are basic – keep it simple, make it chaotic, never disclose – and ...  
Why the Coalition, conservatives and big business are terrified by Emma Alberici

The remarkable scale and intensity of conservative attacks on Emma Alberici and her analysis of ...  
No solid theoretical basis or research to support cutting company tax rate

The empirical and theoretical basis for cutting company taxes is weak, writes Griffith University ...  
Volkswagen, #monkeygate and the sham of corporate social responsibility

VW's latest rigged cancer tests scandal shows yet again that corporations can’t be trusted with ...  
Networks, not renewables or weather, most likely cause of power blackouts

Australia will have to shift to more solar, renewables and storage to maintain current power ...  
A drip not a trickle: Tax cuts produce little extra corporate investment

Despite the emphatic assurances of the Treasurer, a lower Australian corporate tax rate is unli ...  
Can a city's health and wealth really grow on trees?

Planting more urban forests is a simple way not only to improve the health of a city’s people ...  
Corporate tax transparency report: Dodging continues

The elaborate web of currency swaps and wealth shifting schemes that enabled 732 companies to pay ...  
PARADISE PAPERS: How big business evades tax while the ATO does bugger all

The Paradise Papers show tax avoidance by the rich and powerful is not only systemic but also ...  
Australian universities under threat from creeping corporatisation

Governments and university heads want to run Australian universities as commercial companies ...  
Investigation
INVESTIGATION: The mystery of the mayors and the phoenix with four names

Why did Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate sell property out from under former Albury Mayor Amanda Dunca ...  
EXCLUSIVE: Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate and the man with four names

In the spotlight for all the wrong reasons after Four Corners last night, things get worse for Tom ...  
The 'crony capitalist': Understanding Adani — an Indian perspective

Freelance Indian journalist Gaurav Tyagi charts the rise of Adani, its finances, its links to ...  
Expunging the commonweal from the Commonwealth Bank

The Commonwealth Bank has lost its moral compass [and should] refrain from using ... "Common" a ...  
Artificial Intelligence: Will it really terminate the labour force?

It's almost scary to think that the world as we know it may well be run by Artificial Intelligence ...  
The Great Barrier Reef, the Precautionary Principle and $56 billion

While the economic value of the Great Barrier Reef has been estimated at $56 billion, it is ...  
Demeaning our veterans: 'Merchants of death' fund Australian War Memorial

The War Memorial is about honouring the sacrifice of Australians who died at war, not advertising ...  

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