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Who's paying for the Abbott Government propaganda in our power bills?

Are AGL customers paying for the Abbott government's propaganda blaming the huge hike in power ...  
Doing your own tax returns soon to get simpler

The ATO is launching a new streamlined internet tax return service, which should make it much ...  
Should we be selling uranium still to Russia?

Australia's treaty watchdog refused to endorse the Howard government's treaty to sell uranium to ...  
The nuclear option still dogged by waste disposal problems

Nuclear power is seen as one of the possible solutions to climate change, but the recent closure ...  
Plain packaging works and tobacco advertising kills

With News Corp doing the tobacco industry's bidding to fight a rear-guard action against plain ...  
Westfield 'leaners' take taxpayers to the cleaners

Over the last nine years Frank Lowy's Westfield Group paid an average of 8% tax, with its Retail ...  
Who really controls the levers of power? The COAL-ition or the COAL-industry?

Who really controls the levers of power? The COAL-ition government or the COAL-industry? Giles ...  
South Africa's new apartheid

In post-apartheid South Africa the ruling elite has been captured by the neo-conservative business ...  
Private is better ... but only at making money

The Abbott Government is encouraging the states to sell off public assets in the interests of ...  
The Liberal Party's grog and gambling habit

The financial and people links between the Liberal Party and their corporate sponsors is deep and ...  
TPP a ‘high quality’ agreement — for multinationals

DFAT held a public consultation about the controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership last week, but ...  
The Tony Chainsaw Massacre

In a speech given in Tasmania this week, Tony Abbott says Australia's old growth forests are open ...  
The TPP explained: Why Abbott and Robb will happily sign away our rights

Despite the Trans Pacific Partnership almost certainly being against Australia's interests, Tony ...  
Open for business or over a cliff?

The Abbott Government has been in power for less than six months, but rather than creating empl ...  
The Liberal’s worst week

Un-Australian and unhinged, and not doing well in the three big states, the Liberals are seeing ...  
Cadbury tales: Nash, Furnival and Abbott's sticky fingers

The sticky tale of Fiona Nash, her food lobbyist staffer and Abbott's generous Cadbury subsidy has ...  
Workers not to blame for car making decline

Do we want to be a nation whose prosperity is held hostage by commodity prices, or do we want to ...  
No car industry, so what?

So, there's not going to be a car industry in Australia after 2017. Tom Orren says: so what?  

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