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Taylor’s obsession with failing, inflationary coal will help kill off AGL split

Bernard Keane — Tue, 03 May 2022 01:10:03 +0000

By taking an 11% stake in AGL, Mike Cannon-Brookes has effectively killed the AGL demerger. And Angus Taylor might have accidentally helped him.

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Wage against the machine: why you should know what your boss and colleagues earn

Benjamin Clark — Thu, 28 Apr 2022 05:26:52 +0000

Keeping silent about salaries allows unjustified pay discrepancies to go unquestioned, and lessens an employee's power to negotiate wages.

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Joyce’s $1.5 billion fossil fuel handout shows how we’re now a carbon state

Bernard Keane — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 01:31:39 +0000

The gift to fossil fuel donors is one more example of how Australia has become a carbon state, with no opposition from the media or Labor.

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Ask the thousands queued at Sydney Airport about ‘insecure work’

Bernard Keane — Wed, 13 Apr 2022 00:29:41 +0000

Privatised monopoly or near-monopoly service providers who prefer to keep staff numbers low and profits high. Sound familiar? It should if you're stuck in a queue at Sydney Airport.

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Too big to close: casinos break the law with impunity, holding states captive

Bernard Keane — Fri, 25 Mar 2022 00:34:48 +0000

For a third time, Crown has avoided losing a casino licence despite rampant misconduct. It has succeeded in capturing the states in which it operates.

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‘Soil magic’ may be the biggest rort of all — who could have guessed?

Bernard Keane — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 00:22:49 +0000

The Emissions Reduction Fund was always a scam. Now one of the key figures involved in vetting it has confirmed that it's a billion-dollar rort.

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Beware Delaware: Keith Pitt hands millions to mystery US outfit

Bernard Keane — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 23:49:05 +0000

Would you like transparency with that? The Morrison government is handing out millions to a foreign outfit to explore NT's Beetaloo Basin.

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We’ve known of the need for climate adaptation for a decade, but done nothing

Bernard Keane — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 00:27:47 +0000

Australia's disaster management funding and climate adaptation policies are abysmal. And we've know that for years, and done nothing.

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War! What is it good for? Arms companies

Bernard Keane — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 00:41:24 +0000

The biggest Western arms manufacturers have done very well in recent days... and the past decade.

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Ditching fossil fuels now is a core part of Australian national security. It’s a truth of war

Bernard Keane — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 23:54:49 +0000

If there was ever a time to make the change to electric vehicles, it's when an oil-rich rogue nation like Russia can benefit from its own aggression.

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