- SadisTech
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http://www.smh.com.au/business/bank...127-gl9q2i.html
quote:Treasurer Scott Morrison has put ordinary Australian workers on notice that they should no longer expect to receive an age pension from the government when they retire.
Meanwhile, the very wealthy have been warned generous superannuation tax breaks are set to be reined in.
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- SadisTech
- Jun 26, 2013
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http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2015/dec/04/tax-transparency-senate-votes-down-last-ditch-attempt-to-remove-exemption
The Guardian posted:Nearly 1,500 companies will continue to be exempt from filing reports to the corporate regulator after the Senate voted down a last-minute attempt to remove the historic exemption.
Guardian Australia revealed the full list of 1,498 companies that were – as of 2011 – exempt from filing annual financial reports with the Australian Securities and Investments Commission under a deal done by the Keating government in 1995.
Further analysis suggested one in six of the companies that remained registered were either political donors or government contractors.
Crossbench senators raised concern about the exemption, amid an intense political dispute over tax transparency policy and the government’s separate legislation to clamp down on multinational tax avoidance.
A last-ditch attempt by the Australian Motoring Enthusiast party senator, Ricky, Muir to remove the “grandfathering” arrangement failed on Thursday evening, when the Senate voted 36 against and 25 in favour of the amendment.
“The major parties, despite various commitments made over the years, have failed to resolve this issue,” Muir said. “Therefore, it is my intent to try to clear this up today.”
His proposal was blocked by the Coalition and the Greens, which had reached a deal on other transparency measures and argued the change would scuttle the multinational bill’s passage into law.
The Greens senator Peter Whish-Wilson said his party wanted to remove the grandfathering arrangement “but it will destroy this bill tonight, which is delivering an outcome on multinational tax avoidance”.
“We support the principle and we congratulate Senator Muir for raising this issue, but we will not be supporting his amendment tonight,” he said. “We are building momentum towards getting that transparency that we want in place.”
Personally, I think Ricky Muir's amendment is very nice thinking, but it is true that it would have stopped the bill from going through. So the Greens are being pragmatic, and copping a vigorous booting for it. From the same people that complain that they're pie-in-the-sky and unrealistic.
And Jesus, the comments on the above piece. On the Guardian no less. Australians really are deeply, deeply stupid.
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- SadisTech
- Jun 26, 2013
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Oh is it the December being a jerk competition already? gently caress. I'll have to work pretty hard to beat the field this month.
think of the thread as a digital Grid, laid out and waiting for your contributions
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- SadisTech
- Jun 26, 2013
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http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-visits-pub-where-100-greens-celebrate-christmas-party-20151216-gloopb.html
quote:Tony Abbott and 100 Greens walk into a bar.
Come up with your own punchlines, because this isn't the start of a joke.
Fresh from writing angry letters to the editor, the former prime minister has stepped out for a drink with friends and found himself in the middle of a Christmas party hosted by none other than his political opposites.
Dressed in a smart casual suit and open shirt combo, Mr Abbott stayed for about four hours at the Alexandria Hotel in Sydney's inner west, enjoying a steak and chips with salad as well as a wheat beer and some red wine later.
One partygoer, Jarah Crook, told Fairfax Media "it was weird" to see the conservative torch-bearer in Greens heartland.
"A couple of our MPs were there and they had no idea that Tony would rock up, let alone that Tony would have no idea who they were.
"He also made the rookie mistake of mixing beer and wine."
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I am officially enthused
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