Article - Ten Years After the Crash, Tax Competition Threatens Global Economies and Democracies
September 19, 2018
Ten years ago, the global financial system was rocked by the largest crisis since the Great Depression.
Read MoreTen years ago, the global financial system was rocked by the largest crisis since the Great Depression.
Read MoreHistory will conclude that the critics of Labor’s GFC response 10 years ago were hopelessly wrong. By avoiding a sudden, deep recession, Australia also avoided testing out what its effect may have been on our democratic system.
Read MoreIt’s no secret how critical Queensland will be in determining the outcome of the next Federal Election.
Read MoreBernie Sanders rightly rails against the US corporate media for uncritically amplifying Donald Trump, the man with the loudest megaphone in the world, while the voices of the people worst hit by the US President’s policies are increasingly choked off.
Read MoreOnce again Labor’s 2013 tax transparency legislation has proven that sunlight is the best disinfectant. Last week the ATO revealed that one in three public corporations paid no corporate tax in the 2015-16 financial year, echoing the results from the previous year and exposing the maliciousness of companies that engage in corporate tax evasion.
Read MoreLanguage in politics is a fraught business. Certain terms and words are thrown around so often and so easily that they can lose their punch, if not their meaning. The recent article ‘Australian Labor led centre-left parties into neoliberalism’ had at its core a grossly erroneous claim – that the Hawke-Keating governments were the tip of the arrow for neoliberalism, globally and at home. In recent times, ‘neoliberalism’ has re-emerged as...
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