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'Super Saturday' is not so super in Labor's eyes

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

It’s not much good Labor playing the blame game about the July 28 date of the five Super Saturday byelections. In fair part, it has been the architect of its own troubles.

If Bill Shorten had agreed last year to dealing with any Labor MPs who had questionable citizenship status when they nominated, this would be over. But he insisted the ALP...

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Labor outraged as July 28 Super Saturday overlaps ALP conference

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

Speaker Tony Smith has announced that the five byelections will be held on July 28, sparking Labor fury because this puts Super Saturday on the last day of the ALP national conference.

Labor now faces having to postpone the July 26-28 conference, set to be held in Adelaide. Urgent discussions were underway in the party late on Thursday.

Smith, who...

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Expenses authority can't tell Joyce when his travel expenses inquiry will end

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The Independent Parliamentary Expenses Authority (IPEA) has told Barnaby Joyce it can’t give him a finish date for the audit into his travel and related expenses, citing the difficulties of an aging system and consulting third parties.

The audit has been underway since early this year, sparked by the controversy around his affair with his...

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A new levy on digital giants like Google, Facebook and eBay is a step towards a fairer way of taxing

  • Written by: Antony Ting, Associate Professor, University of Sydney

The government is reportedly considering a new tax on the digital economy. While no details of the tax are available yet, the digital services tax recently proposed by the European Commission may give us an idea what the tax might look like.

In essence, the proposal will impose a 3% tax on the turnover of large digital economy companies in the...

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