The government has found a A$19.5 billion hole in Labor’s plan to boost tobacco excise – a proposal that Treasurer Scott Morrison’s budget will also adopt in the scramble for revenue.
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Local voices are more important than ever in a time of global oligopolies.
i naina _94/flickr, CC BY-SAThe following is an edited version of the Brian Johns lecture, delivered on Monday night by Professor Julianne Schultz. It’s a longer read at just over 4,500 words.
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… when John Howard handed government over to the Labor Party and then the Labor, Green, independent alliance, Australia was owed tens of billions of dollars by the world. When they handed government back to us, all your listeners owed the world hundreds of billions of dollars. – Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce, speaking on the...
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