Casinos reined in, but will NSW club pokie palaces ride high on their money laundering losses?By Troy Stolz | August 1, 2024The NSW casino regulator has beaten the casinos into submission, including mandatory cashless gambling. Meanwhile, ...
Latest inflation figures. How does the CPI reflect the cost-of-living crisis?By Harry Chemay | July 31, 2024Inflation figures are out, showing the CPI is 3.8% for the June quarter, up by 0.2% which does not bode well for ...
No to Russia, yes to Israel. But are the Olympic Games still relevant?By Kim Wingerei | July 30, 2024The TV rights bonanza has stalled, the frenzy to secure hosting rights is a thing of the past, and the Olympic's ...
Surreal failure: Department of Justice and NCAT in child protection cover-upBy Rex Patrick | July 29, 2024In the wake of a scathing report into Child Protection by the NSW Auditor-General, the NSW Civil and ...
Electricity bills: is energy market operator AEMO ‘getting owned’ by the gas cartel?By Kim Wingerei and Michael West | July 28, 2024Electricity prices were forecast to drop this month but now regulators are higher-for-longer and blaming a 'cold ...
Australia set to take on the cockroaches of multinational tax chicaneryBy Michael West | July 27, 2024Cockroach-fighting multinational SC Johnson of Raid fame fronted the Senate to decry Labor's corporate tax reforms ...
Bonza’s demise. Playing football on the edge of Putin’s business matrixBy Matt Prescott | July 25, 2024The collapse of Bonza Aviation was sudden but not unexpected. While most start-up airlines in Australia fail, ...
Australian music loses out in shift to streaming, ticketing oligopoly, struggling venuesBy Michael Sainsbury | July 24, 2024With digital media and the rise of streaming music services, the sale of physical albums and singles has dried up. ...
ICJ ‘apartheid’ findings over illegal Israel settlements put Australia’s foreign policy at the brinkBy Farah Abdurahman | July 22, 2024Australia's foreign policy via its support for Israel's government is under strain like never before following ...
The ‘Ensuring Integrity Bill’ that Pauline Hanson defeated kept the CMFEU rorts rollingBy Rex Patrick | July 22, 2024The CFMEU’s conduct has been known about for the better part of a decade and could have been stopped in 2019, but ...
AUSTRAC confirms Australia is a haven for white collar criminalsBy Michael West | July 21, 2024Child sexual exploitation, drug trafficking and large-scale tax fraud threats are on the rise, says a damning ...
Government shoots down move to strip private schools of public subsidiesBy Morgan Harrington | July 20, 2024Olympic-sized swimming pools and in-house baristas at private schools will continue to be financed by public ...
Elbit: how Australia helped finance the IDF killing of Zomi Frankcom and the slaughter in GazaBy Michael West | July 18, 2024The weapons company whose drones killed Australian aid worker Zomi Frankcom in Gaza has been washing taxpayers' ...
Royal Commission into Veteran Suicide confronts lawfare, cronyism and a bureaucratic nightmareBy Stuart McCarthy | July 17, 2024The Royal Commission has found three veteran deaths by suicide every fortnight, yet Stuart McCarthy says the ...
Black Hole: CFMEU, governments, BHP, black coal giants in $2.5B worker wage swindleBy Michael West | July 16, 2024The gangsters and union cronies exposed by Nine's investigation into the CFMEU are the tip of the corruption ...