The first calls for a boycott came in 1964. A young Danish left-wing activist stormed the stage holding a banner reading “Boycott Franco and Salazar”. Though, the most controversial part of the competition has long been the inclusion of Israel.
There was little in the Budget for Australia’s under-resourced integrity agencies, who by the government’s own assessment are not meeting their targets.
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The government's changes to negative gearing and the CGT discount will reduce the enormous tax concessions that are encouraging people to speculate on the property market. Finally, we have a housing affordability policy that will make a real, positive difference.
Greg Jericho, chief economist at the Australia Institute, gives his thoughts and annotations on Treasurer Jim Chalmers' Budget speech
Every Australian has a right to access government information. Requests for access are increasingly delayed, but journalists and members of the public are still using freedom of information law to keep the government on its toes.
There are crowded buses … and then there’s the gas export tax bus. On board are unusual travelling companions: the Greens, David Pocock, Pauline Hanson’s One Nation, Clive Palmer, ACOSS, the ACTU and even the Commonwealth Bank.
Far from chaos or quagmire, the result of power-sharing in the ACT has been a reforming Parliament that has served as a “laboratory of democracy” for other Australian jurisdictions to learn from and take inspiration.
A gas reservation scheme won’t raise a cent in revenue. Some Australians might benefit from lower gas prices, but multinational gas companies would continue to make huge profits selling Australian gas overseas, while the Australian public receives little benefit. Australia will continue to export gas so cheaply that Japanese companies can profit on-selling gas.
The Australian Government is getting less money from our gas exports than Japan is. How can this be?
Around 600,000 of Australia’s teenage gamblers are aged just 12-17 years old, which is enough to fill the MCG six times over.
