Rising Inequality
LNP let the Fox into the coup
The shock expressed at the amorality of PricewaterhouseCoopers’ brazen misuse of confidential Government information is understandable and overdue. Not just overdue because the initial breach of confidentiality took place in 2013 and was detected by the ATO in 2016, but because the sky-rocketing use of consultants in the Australian Public Service (APS) since the election of the Abbott Government in 2013 made such a scandal inevitable.
Source: Profiteering without conscience – The Shot
PwC accused of ‘walking both sides of the street’ on inflated medical device prices
What’s the scam with the Qantas board letting CEO Alan Joyce dump $17m worth of his own Qantas shares into the share buy-back?
The scam is buy-backs. They simply prop up the share price using shareholders’ own money, not to mention, in the case of Qantas, the public’s bail-out money. And this buy-back is already in the red so Qantas shareholders have helped Alan get out for a higher price. Meantime, not one new aircraft was bought under the Joyce regime, so the fleet ran down, customer service ran down and now Alan’s successor faces a massive capex bill to fix things.
If they had nationalised Qantas when the Pandemic hit, the government would be floating it again for $12bn now.
Source: Alan Joyce selling his own Qantas shares into the buy-back, que? – Michael West
Victoria's Immigrant History and the imortation of USTASHA
That small group of migrants deliberately chose to start their club on April 10. In 1953, that was the 12th anniversary of the creation of a Nazi-backed puppet state in Croatia. That state, ruled by a movement called the Ustasha, on conservative estimates killed 500,000 Serbs, Jews and Romani people during the war.
Source: How Croatian fascism symbols and rituals are lingering in Australia
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