by Alan Austin | Jul 28, 2019 | Economy & Markets
Australia’s drift down the global league ladder continues, on a range of metrics. A sobering account of how Australia’s economy is faring versus those of its global peers by Alan Austin.
by Kim Wingerei | Jun 14, 2019 | Business, Comment & Analysis
Independent public interest journalism continues to attract larger audiences. Growth in online readership at env-mwold-development.kinsta.cloud jumped to 67 per cent in the last quarter. Kim Wingerei at theIndependents.org.au reports.
by Philip Soos | Nov 8, 2018 | Energy & Environment
According to the chair of the Coalition’s backbench energy committee, Craig Kelly, the RET’s penalty for committing grievous bodily harm to mining profits should be death by firing squad rather than its current slow death by hanging. Getting rid of the RET, so the...
by Ian Bell | Apr 13, 2018 | Finance & Tax, Government
Heads you win, tails we lose. Is this a guiding principle in the privatisation of Australia’s biggest infrastructure project, WestConnex? As laid out in our “Blind Faith” investigation, the government of NSW has tilted the playing field in favour of WestConnex bidders thanks to a scheme to artificially make the tollroads longer, and by jacking up both the number of roads tolled and the tolls themselves.
by Sandi Keane | Sep 27, 2017 | Business, Finance & Tax
Swiss charity, the Bruno Manser Fund, has been tracking the allegedly corrupt Malaysian billionaire Taib Mahmud for years. Thanks to the work of this Swiss NGO, we were able to expose the activities of the former governor of Sarawak province in Fairfax Media in 2015...