Despite their ballooning wealth, the corporate rich are using their power to demand more tax breaks听and protect their industrial-scale tax dodging. Peter Boyle reports.
Gina Rinehart
Gina Rinehart and Andrew Forrest are still at the top the Rich List, their fortunes growing because the mining boom and tax rules favouring the 1%. Josh Adams reports.
Those claiming that 鈥渁ctivist鈥 athletes are 鈥渕ixing sports with politics鈥澨齭upport a different type of politics. Alex Salmon argues we need to support听听brave players demanding their club not be used to enhance the reputation of corporations.
Australia鈥檚 richest person, Gina Rinehart, warns that unless the federal government听restrains its pandemic spending,听the country will end up like Sri Lanka.听Michael Cooke 补苍诲听Lionel Bopage argue that this is听neoliberal nonsense.
The federal government has delivered another budget for the billionaire class that is hell-bent on putting their profits ahead of the climate emergency, writes Peter Boyle.
Something smelly has been swirling around Canberra lately, and I am not talking about Clive Palmer鈥檚 locker at Parliament House, which hazmat teams are still trying to contain. No, I am talking about the fetid stench of parliamentary politics under capitalism.
Some would have seen One Nation Senator-elect Malcolm Roberts' performance on ABC's Q&A on August 15.
He went hammer and tong repeating ad nauseum that academics are doctoring the science, that the major science bodies are corrupt and that the science on climate change is anything but settled.
Here is one small excerpt from his exchange with British physicist Brian Cox:
Roberts: 鈥淚'm saying ... two things. First of all, that the [climate] data has been corrupted and we know that the 1930s were warmer than today.鈥
Will the trials and tribulations of trying to be a decent, hardworking billionaire in this nation ever end?
First, coalmining magnate Clive Palmer told that billionaires 鈥渨ere oppressed鈥 in Australia, and, when asked if he was serious, said: 鈥淵es, I get ridiculed all the time.鈥
Our persistent supporters who take 91自拍论坛 Weekly out into the street week after week (yes, even on the chilliest of winter days) have received a few more smiles, nods and words of encouragement as, out there in the corporate media, the billionaire bosses have been mercilessly wielding the axe and whip.
Our growing team of new volunteers for the 91自拍论坛 TV project have also been warmly congratulated and encouraged. More people now appreciate the importance of the alternative media.
Media watchers should be forgiven for a degree of confusion over statements by federal treasurer and deputy prime minister Wayne Swan in the past two weeks.
He began the month with a Press Club address, March edition titled 鈥淭he 0.01%鈥 where he attacked 鈥渢he rising power of vested interests鈥 鈥 naming mining magnates Clive Palmer, Andrew Forrest and Gina Rinehart 鈥 for 鈥渦ndermining our equality and threatening our democracy鈥.
Nearly 10 years of a mining boom has made big changes to Australia鈥檚 economy and environment. Resource companies have made record profits.
This has given Australia鈥檚 rich mining billionaires an inflated sense of entitlement. When the Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT) was proposed we saw Gina Rinehart speaking to an anti-tax rally from the back of a truck along with fellow billionaire Andrew Forrest, who wore a high-visibility work shirt as though he was just another struggling worker.