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Big business tax watch: Do corporate tax avoiders also mistreat their staff?

Is there a correlation between mistreating staff and avoiding tax? Between profiting from peopl ...  
Follow the money to climate science denial

A Greenpeace investigation uncovers a complex climate science denial machine involving cash from ...  
There's nothing conservative about free markets

Are those in our parliament who claim to be conservative in fact neo-liberal? Liam Carlton-Jones ...  
How to dodge more corporate scandals like 7-Eleven, VW and ExxonMobil

Professor Carl Rhodes draws on recent corporate scandals involving 7-Eleven, VW and ExxonMobil and ...  
Why are Liberal and Labor so infatuated with start-ups?

In the overwhelming majority of cases, public money for startups goes towards short term, low ...  
A matter of sovereignty (Part 3): No transparency or self-respect

Dr Evan Jones completes his three part analysis of the influence of corporate interests on so-c ...  
A matter of sovereignty (Part 2): Negotiating our future away

Australia's trade negotiators are "craven no-hopers" who have consistently sold Australia out in ...  
A matter of sovereignty (Part 1)

Given how poorly Australia has fared in its so-called "free" trade agreements, Dr Evan Jones asks ...  
If the TPP was really about trade it would include China

The TPP agreement has little to do with free trade, but is more about creating an exclusive club ...  
Critics condemn 'disastrous' TPP as trade ministers seal deal for corporate elite

Trade leaders from 12 nations cement pact which critics say will raise the price of essential ...  
Will Turnbull's climate backflip cost Australian businesses post Paris?

To secure leadership of the Liberal Party, Malcolm Turnbull backflipped on his view that Direct ...  
GVK Hancock's Galilee mine might have scored a legal win but can it score the funds?

Gina might have bagged a win in court, but it's a hollow victory for Rinehart's GVK Hancock's ...  
The China FTA: Seeing past the smoke and mirrors

The Abbott Government is exaggerating the potential benefits of the China-Australia Free Trade ...  
Tame media lets adversarial Abbott play race card in Chinese trade deal debate

PM Abbott trying the race card over Labor's response to the Chinese free trade deal wasn't as ...  
Corporate immunity to criminal prosecution: Send bank CEOs to gaol

In the final of his three part series, Dr Evan Jones concludes that the political class and the ...  
The Trans-Pacific Partnership has stumbled: Now it's time to walk away

Last week's failure to conclude the TPP in Hawaii signals a potentially fatal stall in negotiat ...  
An economy is not a society: The unmaking of the Australian working class

Something similar to that which happened to England in the first three decades of the 1800s has ...  
European mining dispute illustrates risks of ISDS in TPP

Highlighting the dangers to resource-rich Australia from ISDS clauses in trade agreements such as ...  

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