Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends?

Why Is Google Translate Spitting Out Sinister Religious Prophecies? Motherboard

Study: Employees Are Happier, More Productive After Switching To Four-day Work Week

Jarrod Haar, a human resources professor at Auckland University of Technology, said employees reported a 24 percent improvement in work-life balance, and came back to work energized after their days off. “Supervisors said staff were more creative, their attendance was better, they were on time, and they didn’t leave early or take long breaks,” Mr. Haar said. “Their actual job performance didn’t change when doing it over four days instead of five.” … Read More

Can Economists and Humanists Ever Be Friends? New Yorker. John Lanchester

Media statement - Ms Sharyn O'Neill - New Public Sector Commissioner announced

 

ATO crackdown hit list for IT contractors revealed

Heather Smith: public servants must start doing policy differently – now

Royal commissions are the result of shareholders ruling the roost

Carl Williams' murder not the fault of tax office, court hears

In thinly veiled barbs at Trump, Obama laments ‘strongman politics’ and leaders who lie WaPo

The ugly scandal that cancelled the Nobel prize Guardian

New appointments to the NSW Industrial Relations Commission

 

Public service deserves a leader who respects it

 

Tax Inspectors Without Borders 

 

Black Economy Taskforce - Treasury

 

TPB Consultative forum report -  2018 | TPB

Increase funding to TPB says CPA Australia | Money Management

 

I see the federal Auditor-General has been less than complimentary about the Turnbull government’s cashless welfare card. The cheek! I say the man should be removed and replaced by a Liberal Party staffer forthwith.
Always provided the staffer has done at least a year or two of accounting at uni, of course. Wouldn’t do for voters to gain the impression his chief qualifications were his years of loyal service as a ministerial flunky.

 

Budget office fills gap left by politicised Treasury

 

Is the bottom about to fall out of our $6.9 trillion property market?

 

  Taxing task faces new Treasury head Philip Gaetjens 

Jeffrey Maine (Maine), Multinational Efforts to Limit Intellectual Property Income Shifting: The OECD’s Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project, 20 SMU Sci. & Tech. L. Rev. 259 (2017)

Britain’s railway arches are being sold off – and small businesses could be forced out The Conversation
This Bold Plan to Fight Opioid Overdoses Could Save Lives — But Some Conservatives Think It’s ‘Immoral’ AlterNet
California rent control ballot measure wins backing from Democratic Party San Francisco Chronicle
Treasury defends move to halt nonprofit disclosures, saying information available Politico. A problem, even if Rachel Maddow seems to think this, too, is about Russia?!? MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Calls Out the Trump Admin.’s Stunning Move to Let the NRA and Other Groups Conceal Donors AlterNet
Ajit Pai deals major setback to Sinclair/Tribune merger Ars Technica
WATTS: ANOTHER FLINT? WhoWhatWhy.org

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