A few days ago, the Labor Party released a policy which would stop the Commonwealth handing out cheques for excess franking credits to those who have arranged their tax affairs…
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There are several definitions of homelessness, but they tend to include ‘rooflessness’ (primary homelessness) where people are sleeping on the streets or in improvised dwellings, and ‘houselessness’, where people are…
As I made clear last month, Treasurer Scott Morrison was lying by omission regarding the supposedly uncompetitive corporate tax rate in Australia. This was because he omitted to mention franking…
The contented and economically comfortable have a very discriminating view of government. Nobody is ever indignant about bailing out failed banks and failed savings and loans associations. But when taxes must be paid for the lower middle class and poor, the government assumes an aspect of wickedness.
The organisation known as Transparency International is a non-profit international organisation founded in 1993 and based in Berlin. Its aim is to combat global corruption and to prevent criminal activities…
The mind-boggling behaviour of Barnaby Joyce seems like it might be politically terminal. Firstly, in playing away from home and impregnating his staffer, he argued that such a sequence of…
Foreign Minister Julie Bishop does not live with her ‘boyfriend’, the pharmacist, winery owner and property developer David Panton, so she does not call him her ‘partner’, just like Barnaby…
It is difficult to know where to start with an essay on Minister for Jobs and Innovation, Senator Michaelia Cash, without going from essay to treatise. However, I will largely…