9 Nov 2023
TND: Record corporate tax receipts, but fossil fuel giants still paid zero
16 Jan 2022
Gu: Australia’s richest 1% pocketed $150,000 a minute over past decade, Oxfam research finds
MW: Mining magnate Gina Rinehart, whose net worth is estimated to be $14.6
billion, and real estate developer Harry Triguboff, said to be worth $9
billion, are among the richest Australians, according to Forbes.
1 Sep 2021
Crikey: Inland rail a carbon abatement initiative? Actually it’s a cavalcade of coal
10 Jul 2020
Attn taxpayers: Morrison Govt poised to give your money to Kerry Stokes billionaire proprietor of Seven network for mining project. AFR cheerleaders doing pirouettes. Thread
Attn taxpayers: Morrison Govt poised to give your money to Kerry Stokes billionaire proprietor of Seven network for mining project. AFR cheerleaders doing pirouettes. Thread
19 Apr 2020
MW: Smiling. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce
24 Sep 2019
Pratt Consolidated Holdings spot on by MW
Alan Austin reports @MW: Coalition doubles all government debt accumulated since Federation in under six years.
Australia’s gross debt updated Friday morning: $543,409,430,000'
5 Nov 2018
And info from Mark regarding the big end of town misleading the public and their donations to Liberal Party
3 Nov 2018 Mates for mates
2 Nov 2018
31 May 2018
OnlineGST on goods under $1000
Updates on tax cuts
Update on Company Tax Bill via auspol
Turnbull govt's plan to change company tax is blocked in the Senate:
Labor (26) + Greens (9) + Centre Alliance (2) + Tim Storer (1) + ON (3) = 41
Coaltion (30) + DL (1) + CoryB (1) + SM (1) + FA (1) = 34
Derryn Hinch (1)?
76 senators are expected to vote on this bill.
39 votes are required to pass this bill. 38 votes are required to block this bill. Source
Wonder why ON did not vote with the govt? Is it because of the longman by-election?
Gu: Australian nursing home giants shifting millions in profits offshore, rpt finds
SMH: Tim Storer: the hole in the government's tax cut plan
MW: ATO data dump - naming and shaming the nation’s biggest tax cheats
The Age: Big firms including News Corp, Exxon & Chevron paid no tax in 2016, Tax Office says
NewsCorp Income $2.9 bn, Exxon Mobil $6.7 bn and Chervon $2.1 bn
7 Dec 2017
Andrew Leigh, Shadow Assistant Treasurer on the Turnbull government re ATO data dump
Gu Paradise Papers: The desperate inequality behind global tax dodging
Gu: Qld Labor keeps promise on Great Barrier Reef
coal-ship loading ban
27 Oct 2017
27 July 2017
7 Oct 2017 Gu: Most Australians oppose Adani mine, poll shows
Day of action around Australia
Australia’s $1 billion loan to Adani is ripe for a High Court challenge
Understand why the opposition leader Bill Shorten has been aimed at by media monguls.
Latest twitters from Rupert Murdoch and Mark Riley prove it
"The department says it has 82 communications staff,
22 of whom are
dedicated to its "24/7 media operations", including social media."
The Age: The trouble with trusts: Australia's multibillion-dollar tax avoidance
Cash failed to properly declare a $1.4m investment property
30 July 2017 Cash failed to properly declare a $1.4m investment property
The River Murray
SA Senators, Premier, SA water minister and farmers unite.
on Murray Darling
Letter from Tony Burke to Auditor General seeking for an investigation into allegations
2.26 AEST gu: Blame Tony Abbott for our next electricity bills
Finkel Review: A bluffer's guide for those who haven't read it
Gu: ATO has released tax and income details for 1904 entities operating in Aus
NEWSabc: ATO names large companies that paid zero tax in 2014-15
Who's NAIF Board member with a Conflict of Interest?
Karla Way-McPhail, who runs mining labour & equipment hire companies and is on
the NAIF board, who provide recommendations of $900m taxpayer loan to Adani
27 May 2017 GetUp: The $1 billion NAIF loan to Adani not going ahead
Why does The Qld Government refuse to support the deal?
People made thousands calls to voters
People took to the streets
People made true headlines and
People win!
People win!
18 May 2017 fyi via #auspol
protest: Frydenberg's office, Friday 5pm
Since observing this forum, I have noticed that a great deal of news from Murdoch's press have tried to tear Labor apart by all means. The use of Fake News for distraction is an example. Yesterday on Insiders, more time was spent on labor leadership stablebility and today on #7.30?. Surely, a lot of us know the reasons why Murdoch support Lib. Just look at the very recent reform package to abolish license fee in media before the budget evening.
Bill Shorten said: 'The Australian taxpayer should not be an ATM for Indian coal mining companies".
28 May 2017
Part of Article in The Conversation 12 May 2017
'Why media reform in Australia has been so hard to achieve' by Tim Dwyer, Syd Uni
Trump and Turnbull invited to a party in NY hosted by Murdoch yesterday 5 May
3 May 2017 
12 April 2017 The Drum - Panel and discussion on Adani Loan
2016 news
Get Up petition: money for hospitals, medicare, the homeless,.instead
ATO court victory. Chevron faces $300 million tax bill Rpt by Stephen Long
19 Dec 2016 The truth is that this government's agenda is 'to take from the poor to give to the rich'
Submarines deal for cpyne's job
12 Dec 2016
Frydenberg: carbon price is on the table. 'We know that there's been a large number of bodies that have recommended an emissions intensity scheme... We'll look at that'.
Comments withdrawn on the next day due to backbench forces: 'The Turnbull Government is not contemplating such a scheme. We're not advocating for such a scheme.
Politics v Policy, Advice from experts (2015 catoon) to save $15B off electricity bills
Adani protest
Catoon@the Age (L). Pix@auspol (R)
1 December 2016 Bp tax Spend spend... to look like a winner
a fund of $100m for Landcare and some superannuation payments on departure
Chris Bowen had fun with 'co-Treasurers',
pointing out Richard Di Natale's signature on the Treasurer's letterhead (L)
24 November 2016 Backpacker tax
Current rate: 32.5%
Jacqui Lambie amended 10.5% rate in Senate with support from Labor, the Greens, David Levonhjelm and One Nation.
The Senate amendment is rejected in the HoR or by the gov (>1 vote only)
A 15% rate proposed by ON on Insiders 27nov
Updated 28 Nov: Agreed by the gov.
24 Nov 2016
Fire alert from Alan Moir
Shane Wright, WA on Insiders 27nov: debt record 461B + losing AAA rating
16 Nov 2016
25 Oct 2016 GetUp
The Coalition spent $215,000 on 22 business class flights to Paris to learn to save money...
20 Oct 2016 The Age
A senate committee hears Philip Ruddock is receiving his full parliamentary pension
while also being paid to be a special envoy.
while also being paid to be a special envoy.
According to GetUp, Government cancelled the plan
9 Sep 2016 gu Asic should open up journalists' access to info, not choke it
25 August 2016 gu
Voters prefer raising multinational tax rate over increasing GST, poll shows
4 February 2016 The Age
Malcolm Turnbull, Scott Morrison face backbench backlash if Liberals hike GST
Majority of voters reject increasing the tax
Rupert Murdoch attacks Google for paying 'token' taxes
Google agrees to pay Britain 130 million pounds in back taxes
Why won't Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull debate a 15% GST?
11 January 2016 gu - Wayne Swan
Tax avoidance impoverishes us all. Fighting it requires challenging the powerful
18 Dec 2015 smh
Crack down on big companies before cutting welfare, say crossbenchers
17 December 2015
5.55pm The Age Which of Australia's biggest companies are not paying tax
14.41 gu ATO report shows nearly 600 big companies paid no tax in 2013-14
1.43pm smh Zero tax: Half of Au's 1300 public companies have been under ATO review
Tax paid by Australia's largest companies on $100m profits revealed in new report
Labor says Lib never wanted public to see ATO list showing major corporations pay no tax
8.27pm The Age Off the table: why the GST won't be lifted to 15%
8 Dec 2015 8.53pm smh Everything is on the table: leaked COAG agenda reveals GST changes being considered
"Labor opposes any increase to the GST because it is a regressive tax,
meaning poorer people pay a greater proportion of their income on tax
compared to those on higher incomes"
the Victorian Government says: to hike the GST is unfair and
4 December 2015
3 December 2015 Federal politics/multinational tax
18.53 gu Senator Cory Bernardi says he won't vote for the tax deal as it didn't go to the party room - as it happened
15.59 gu Greens accused of 'selling out' over deal with Coalition on tax transparency
12.08pm smh Scott Morrison strikes 11th hour deal with Greens on tax avoidance law
Government loses cross bench support for super shake-up bill
1 December 2015 15.22 the guardian/Tax transparency
One in six exempt companies are political donors or govt contractors
26 November 2015 Labor Herald
Five reasons why a 15% GST isn't the answer to Australia's tax problems
23 Nov 2015 22.34 AEDT the guardian
Tax transparency: full list of exempt companies revealed as Senate battle looms
19 Nov 3.55pm abcNEWS FactCheck
Was superannuation designed to get people off the pension?
15 November 2015 ABC-Insiders
Fran Kelly from RN and Lenore Taylor from the Guardian Australia
Tax reform dominated question time.
Malcolm Turnbull: "The Government does not have a proposal to increase the GST"
12 Nov 2015
13.45 AEDT the gu ScoMo sets up a showdown with Senate over tax avoidance bill
10 Nov 2015 abcNEWS Treasurer ScoMo announces tax discussion paper pushed back until next year
12.25pm The Age MT challenged by Coalition MPs over potential GST increase and
"Labor opposes any increase to the GST because it is a regressive tax,
meaning poorer people pay a greater proportion of their income on tax
compared to those on higher incomes"
8 Nov 2015 abc-Insiders Tax Talk
the Sunday Mail, 1 November 2015 (R)
30 August 2015 6.03PM Financial Review: GST hike to pay for income tax cuts
25 August 2015 18.14 AEST the guardian/GST/Daniel Hurst
23 July 2015 The Age Political News GST rise on cards..
Federal shadow treasurer Chris Bowen criticised:
"You
promised on 33 separate occasions before the last election not to
change the GST,
Mr Bowen said directed at the Prime Minister:
"Today you confirmed that you will continue
your attack on low & middle-income earners by adding to their
cost of living. Add that to a long list of betrayals of the Au
people."Mr Bowen said directed at the Prime Minister:
24 July 2015 11.24am The Age/Political News/James Massola
"On economic policy, Mr Shorten set out a clear contrast over tax policy, arguing Labor would require foreign multinationals to pay more tax rather than asking working Australians to pay more GST."
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27 Oct 2015 4.53pm abcNEWS
gu 21 Oct First Dog on Joe Hockey
YouTube: Farewell speech from Joe Hockey
22 October 2015 The Age Lost superannuation money
20 Oct 2015 newmatilda.com
A Minimum Tax for the Wealthy by Warren E. Buffett
16 Oct 9.18pm The Age Labor senator demands Turnbull dump his Caymans investments
14 Oct 2015 14.13 gu Labor attacks Turnbull for investments registered in Cayman Is
4 Oct 2015 8.05am TheAge- Dick Smith says there's no threat to the rich
23 September 2015 8.15pm The SMH
The 55 millionaires paid no tax (smh 30 Apr 2015)
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The Age- United on jobs and growth
abc7.30
29 Sep 2015 the guardian
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4 September 2015 19.16 AEST the guardian/Aus politics
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