* Australians are paying four-times too much for drugs
* Big Pharma is subsidised by taxpayers on the way in to Australia via the $10 billion Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS).
* On the ...
At least journalists at The Australian called before they conducted their hatchet jobs the other day. Fairfax Media gossip columnist Joe Aston didn't bother to pick up the phone for today's ...
It was a case of "I'll see you and I'll raise you". No sooner had the Business Council of Australia dealt its hand on big business screwing small business suppliers - by stretching out payment ...
"This is a huge market and no one knows how it all works except the mug operator who washes the linen, cleans the toilets and battles with being recognised by Google to compete with these guys ...
Whistleblower Simone Marsh unpacks the startling evidence of how the Australian public was shortchanged by both Big Gas and Queensland Inc. The result is the present gas crisis and the recent, ...
Health insurance is yet another sector subsidised by taxpayers but statutory disclosure remains poor, particularly when it comes to the new industry leader, Bupa. Although it is a $6 billion ...
American Express has paid no net tax in Australia for nine years, according to its latest financial statements. That is zero tax on $10 billion in revenue.
Well might this story end there. ...
Under pressure from the Tax Office, Google and Facebook have begun to bring their revenue onshore to be taxed. Ebay remains recalcitrant, still deeming its Australian business to be a Swiss ...
Chevron's top brass touched down in Australia last September in a fleet of five private jets, here to visit their gargantuan Gorgon and Wheatstone gas projects in Western Australia.
The Tax ...
It is not hard to harbour a sneaking admiration for Macquarie Bank and its relentless ingenuity in finding new ways to make money.
"People are our most important asset" is an oft-uttered ...
Nowhere is the impotence of politicians and regulators more costly than in their failure to stand up to multinational corporations dodging tax.
The poachers are not merely in charge of the ...
Confounding the familiar government narrative of reckless spending binges by Labor, the Coalition actually has the record of greater profligacy when it comes to showering billions of dollars of ...